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Michael McNeill: Barcode Poetry

Read "Barcode Poetry" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

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 ...

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Remembering Susan Alcorn: Bucking The Trends

by Ian Patterson
February 5, 2025

All About Jazz is saddened to learn of the passing of Susan Alcorn--pedal steel guitarist extraordinaire. She died on January 31st of natural causes. Perhaps more than any other pedal steel guitarist before her, Alcorn took her instrument into musical terrain not usually associated with it. She played country music for twenty years, but ...

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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.

Article: Album Review

Michael McNeill: Barcode Poetry

Read "Barcode Poetry" reviewed by Troy Dostert

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 ...