by Barney McAll | Sep 18, 2012 | Barney McAll
NOMINATIONS: 2012 Jagermeister Independent Music Awards BEST INDEPENDENT JAZZ ALBUM Barney McAll – Graft (Jazzhead) Benjamin Hauptmann – Benjamin Hauptmann (Yum Yum Tree Records) Mike Nock – Hear And Know (FWM Records) Peter Knight – Fish Boast Of Fishing...
by Barney McAll | Aug 22, 2012 | Barney McAll
July 19- 24 Brazil with Gary Bartz Quartet Had a huge reminder about why I even play music on this trip with Gary Bartz… The chemistry this band has and the years we have played together makes for some powerful music and interplay. Not to mention Bartz...
by Barney McAll | Aug 22, 2012 | Barney McAll
YOU are the product and you cost him zero! Facebook is killing the arts and has stunted dissent. Facebook is ruining focus and craftsmanship. FB has also caused an immense problem of loneliness as it professes connection? “Curating the exhibition of the self has...
by Barney McAll | Jul 17, 2012 | Barney McAll
What are you trying to evoke in your compositions? That answer changes with every one. Just like the sun hides behind clouds then suddenly beams through…My impetus or volition for writing music is always in flux. I do find though, that trying to describe...
by Barney McAll | Jul 17, 2012 | Barney McAll
Played the Vic Theatre in Chicago with Daniel Merriweather and afterwards checked out some Blues players at a spot called ‘Blues”. Eric Guitar Davis man:Amazing playing, authentic and church soul abstractions. Wow! When you stuble across something like...
by Barney McAll | Jul 17, 2012 | Barney McAll
I remember watching a documentary on a TV many years ago that covered the last hundred years and its theme song was “As Time Goes By”… anyway, i was probably about 15 years old and one piece of footage from that program has never left me. It was...
