New Album 'Up and Gone' Out Now!

We’re thrilled to share our new album Up and Gone! We hope you enjoy it as much as we had fun making this record!

Credits:

What's Still Happening!!

2.      Somebody Calling

3.      Up and Gone

4.      Sunlit Flower (Against the Sky)

5.      Back to Atlanta

6.      A Song for Vince

7.      Sojourn in A Minor

8.      No Apology

All songs written by Chance McColl and Beth Moore except “Somebody Calling,” written by Robin Trower and James Dewar.

Beth Moore:                     Vocals, Keys, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3 Organ

Chance McColl:                Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals

Tim Aucoin:                       Acoustic, Electric Bass

Joel Morris:                       Drums, Percussion

Randy Hunter:                  Alto Saxophone

Caleb Lattimore:              Trumpet

Justin Powell:                    Trumpet

Declan Ward:                    Alto Saxophone

 Artwork by Keith Brogdon at Thinking Out Loud Design, Nashville, TN. Photography by Sarah Cofer.

 Engineered and recorded by Joey Jones at The Greenhouse Atlanta. Mixed by Tom Tapley at West End Sound. Additional engineering by Miles Landrum. Mastered by Billy Bowers. Produced by Joey Jones, Tom Tapley, Chance McColl, and Beth Moore. Executive producer: Chance McColl. Management: Juliett Rowe. A special thanks to Pamela McColl and Ryan Moore.

Interview with Modern Jazz Today

Moore McColl Jazz Society:  Partners in Excellence and Distinction

“Partners possess a magical quality that puts ego aside and champions excellence and distinction. Partners in music that have made such a lasting impression have included Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Miles Davis and Gil Evans, and Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson to name a few. Playing off each other produces a creation greater than the individual artists could make separately.”

Electric Fantastic Lands on Roots Music Report Top Jazz Albums 2020

We’re thrilled to announce that The Moore-McColl Jazz Society’s debut album, Electric Fantastic, is on Roots Music Report’s Top Jazz Album Chart 2020! This is an incredible achievement with a debut album in 2020. Thank you to all at Roots Music Report who have supported this album, and a special thank you to all of the dj’s, radio programmers, reviewers, and new fans around the world that have supported Electric Fantastic!

https://rootsmusicreport.com/charts/view/album/genre/jazz/yearly/2020

"It's Christmas Time (Good Morning Blues)" and "Jingle Jangle" Debut at #2 on RMR Charts

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We’re thrilled to announce that both Holiday songs from The Moore-McColl Jazz Society have charted on the Roots Music Report Top 50 Christmas: Jazz Song Chart and the NACC Top 5 Jazz Adds!

Thank you to all of the radio stations, Program Director’s, DJ’s, and everyone else who has played our records.

Call your local jazz or blues radio program and request “It’s Christmas Time (Good Morning Blues)” and “Jingle Jangle”!

Stream the songs here: https://found.ee/mmjsxmas

New Christmas EP Out Now

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The Moore-McColl Jazz Society have released an EP with two Christmas songs: “It’s Christmas Time (Good Morning Blues) and “Jingle Jangle”. We hope that you enjoy these songs and have a wonderful Holiday!

“We chose to cover Ella Fitzgerald's "It's Christmas Time (Good Morning Blues)" because it's such an amazing, jazzy Christmas song that's not over-played on the radio each year. It gave Beth an opportunity to really deliver a powerhouse vocal performance, while also allowing the band to really groove, “ said Chance McColl. “I then wrote an instrumental swing number and entitled it "Jingle Jangle" - named after the two elves from Rankin-Bass' "The Year Without a Santa Claus" (you know it - the one with Heat Miser and Snow Miser). Beth ran with that idea and wrote really fun, playful lyrics that give tribute to those two elves who helped save Christmas!”

Beth Moore added, “I loved the rhythmic complexity of Ella’s version, but decided we would simplify it and perform it as a blues, but her vocal licks were definitely an inspiration to my performance.  We also came up with the horn lines in the beginning - which Randy thought reminded him of the intro to “If I Were a Bell” which is one of my favorite standards to sing and play.  That was a cool minds think alike moment for sure.  Chance’s idea to put solos in between the verses was an absolute great arrangement idea And then the outro was a perfect opportunity to bring the horn lines back in and let guitar, sax an vocals adlib like crazy.  I loved the energy there at the end especially. “

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