Barney McAll: Non-Compliance Trio + Horatio Luna

About

BARNEY MCALL: Barney McAll is one of Australia's most visionary and uncompromising musical voices — a Grammy-nominated, ARIA-winning pianist, composer and producer based in Melbourne whose work has defied categorisation across 28 solo albums and collaborations with Gary Bartz, Roy Ayers, Maceo Parker, Dewey Redman, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Sia, and Fred Wesley. He moved to New York in 1997 after being invited to join the Gary Bartz Quartet, and spent two decades at the forefront of the global jazz scene before returning to Melbourne.

His 2022 album Precious Energy — recorded with the Hiatus Kaiyote rhythm section, saxophonist Julien Wilson, vocalist Rita Satch, and living legend Gary Bartz — was named Album of the Year by AllMusic, called 'a magnum opus' and 'like drowning in honey' by critics, and nominated for an ARIA, the Australian Music Prize and a Music Victoria Award. It remains one of the most celebrated Australian jazz records of the decade.

A lecturer in jazz and improvisation at the University of Melbourne, McAll approaches every performance with the focused intensity of a man who knows that music can bend reality itself.

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HORATIO LUNA

Henry Hicks, performing as Horatio Luna, is a Melbourne-based bass guitarist, producer and composer whose music sits at the fertile intersection of house, jazz, dub and broken beat. A founding member of the Melbourne collective East Coast Collective and a member of Lush Life, John Henderson and Teymori, Hicks has spent years quietly…