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Shelly Purdy

Michael McNeill: Barcode Poetry

by Hrayr Attarian
March 10, 2025

Pianist Michael McNeill approaches music like an abstract painter. Thus his work is dynamic, multi-hued, and textured. The captivating Barcode Poetry, his fourth album as a leader, finds him expanding his palette with unorthodox instrumentation. His quartet includes, in addition to trumpeter Dave Ballou and percussionist Shelly Purdy, innovative pedal guitarist Susan Alcorn whose passing a ...

Barcode Poetry

By Michael McNeill

Label: Infrasonic Press
Released: 2024
Track listing: Timeigrant; Barcode Poetry; Elegy; As a Metaphor (take 2); Branches; As a Metaphor (take 1); Double Memory.

Michael McNeill: Barcode Poetry

by Troy Dostert
October 22, 2024

Pianist Michael McNeill has pursued a number of projects since his debut release, Passageways, in 2013, each of which has defined his distinctive niche as a musician informed by both avant-garde and conventional jazz. On Barcode Poetry, it is the former impulse that prevails, as McNeill and his esteemed colleagues--Susan Alcorn on pedal steel guitar, Dave ...