“The Tune Up album had so much language there that I learnt ‘cause I REALLY listened to it, thousands of times," Barney laughs. When Barney was just ten years old, his brother gave him Miles Davis’s Tune Up, a double LP on Prestige “with a picture of Miles on the front cover in a boxing ring looking all tough." It was changing our very DNA, but we were just digging it ‘cause we loved it we weren't studying it, we were just playing it until we absorbed it.” “We were these little kids just lapping it up. He'd be dropping these amazing rarities to us on vinyl,” Barney recalls. “Len used to bring these records to our house. Growing up on the outskirts of Melbourne in Mooroolbark in the 60s and 70s, the McAll family home was just around the corner from Len Barnard, drummer and brother of local jazz luminary, Bob Barnard. Melbourne-based, Grammy-nominated and ARIA winner Barney McAll returns in 2022 with his new album Precious Energy, on Extra Celestial Arts. "a brilliant album, beautiful work"- GILLES PETERSON “ Barney is one of my favorite pianists, that’s why he’s been in my band for the last 20 years” - GARY BARTZ "like drowning in honey.an incredible album". ‘Like a dream’: Barney McAll recruits Hiatus Kaiyote and it’s geniusīarney McAll Is at His World-Class Best on ‘Precious Energy’ ***** NOTE- I HAVE ORDERED A REPRESS OF THIS ALBUM AS ALL THE COPIES SOLD ALMOST IMMEDIATELY! PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ORDER - NEW PRESSINGS ON THIER WAY! THANKS EVERYONE XXX
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