Barney McAll is an Australian jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and producer whose playing approach crisscrosses styles from bop to modal, and fusion to post-bop. A prolific recording artist, he is active on both sides of the Pacific. Since releasing 1995's Exit, his leader debut (with drummer Jimmy Cobb and saxophonist Vincent Herring), he's recorded over a dozen albums and played on more than 100 others, including 2005's celebrated Mother of Dreams and Secrets. McAll has also worked in the bands of Gary Bartz, Dewey Redman, and Billy Harper. After 17 years in New York, he returned to Australia and issued the award-winning Mooroolbark in 2005. He served as Sia's music director in 2011 and 2012. 2017's Zephyrix was a collaboration with the Monash Art Ensemble, while 2018's Global Intimacy appeared under the futurist pseudonym TQX. Precious Energy, a sprawling, integrational application of spiritual jazz, soul, and funk, arrived in 2022.