Thank you to all of the radio stations, DJ’s, and Program Directors for your support of Electric Fantastic! Please reach out to your local jazz radio or community radio station and ask them to play Electric Fantastic!
"Electric Fantastic" Review from The Sentinel & Rural News
“It has to be said from the start—this is a riotously fun album but don’t mistake that for anything less than flawless execution in composing and performance. The hardest thing is to make the demanding look easy and they do it to near-perfection.”
Read the full review here:
https://www.sentinelruralnews.com/post/the-moore-mccoll-jazz-society-electric-fantastic
New Chart Positions on NACC and Roots Music Report
We’re so happy to be on this week’s NAAC at Number 21 and Roots Music Report at Number 10! Thank you to all of the radio stations, DJ’s, Program Directors, and album reviewers for your support for Electric Fantastic!
New Review on Part-Time Audiophile
“This was the music for the young people in towns like Chicago and Detroit, where big, joyful and raucous music was the order of the day. The Moore-McColl Jazz Society plays that sort of music, the kind that borrows the ingredients from many different kitchens and serves you up something unique.”
"Electric Fantastic" Review on JazzdaGama
As his name suggests, Chance McColl literally “got lucky” when he was thrown into a musical adventure with Beth Moore sometime in 2014. That meeting, and recording, revealed the true depth of Miss Moore’s gifts. This recording Electric Fantastic is proof of that revelation for it is on this repertoire that the skill and scope of Miss Moore’s talent is on full display. She is a powerful vocalist who literally brings down the proverbial house each time she sings. [Her vocals are truly magical on the song “Words”]. She is also fleet-fingered and delicate on the hefty Hammond C3 – the heaviest of the Hammond organs – and she is a superb arranger as her horn arrangements prove her to be.
Thank you to Raul da Gama for this wonderful review of Electric Fantastic. You can read the full review here: https://jazzdagama.com/music/the-moore-mccoll-jazz-society-electric-fantastic/
Take Effect Gives Electric Fantastic a Stellar Review
Jazz music website Take Effect gives Electric Fantastic an 8/10 review!
A very versatile listen, there’s also moments of R&B, funk and pop to be found here, as instrumentals and a classic rock cover are also in attendance on this first rate adventure in contemporary jazz.
Read the full review here: https://takeeffectreviews.com/august-2020-3/2020/8/26/the-moore-mccoll-jazz-society
"Electric Fantastic" lands on the Top 5 Jazz Adds for NACC Chart
Electric Fantastic lands on the Top 5 Jazz Adds Chart on the NACC Chart and is still charting on Roots Music Report Top 50 Jazz Albums Chart.
Debut Album "Electric Fantastic" Out Now On All Platforms!
The electric debut album from The Moore-McColl Jazz Society is out now on all platforms with physical copies (CD and vinyl) available in our Merch store!
The album is OUT! Today 👊👌 On all streaming platforms. So much love and dedication went into making this record. Me and Chance are beyond proud and just hope you love it too! Many talented people helped on this record as you will hear!! - Beth Moore
Even in this most serious and challenging time in history, The Moore-McColl Jazz Society makes music a pleasurable thing to simply kick back and enjoy. Take your mind off the troubles of 2020 and tune in to the Moore-McColl Jazz Society. — Robert Silverstein, Roots Music Report
"This is a work that covers what most jazz fans like about the genre - great beat, smoothness, improv, energy, and very easy to listen to and like. I know I did." — Audiophile
"Electric Fantastic" Debuts at #22 on Roots Music Report Top 50 Jazz Album Chart
We’re so excited to announce that our debut album “Electric Fantastic” has debuted on Roots Music Report’s Top 50 Jazz Album Chart at #22!! A week ahead of the full album release!
Thank you to all of the radio stations, dj’s, and Program Directors for your support! Special thank you to Kari-On Productions!
https://rootsmusicreport.com/charts/view/album/genre/jazz/weekly
"Electric Fantastic" Single Out Now On All Streaming Platforms
“Electric Fantastic”, the debut single and title track to the Moore-McColl Jazz Society’s debut album, is out now on all digital platforms. Chance and Beth decided to release the title track as the first single since the recording exemplifies the experience the band had while recording at 800 East Studios in Atlanta.
“The title track, ‘Electric Fantastic’, may be my favorite track because it’s got great energy, punchy horns, funky playing with attitude AND it makes you want to dance,” Beth says. “I was so proud of everyone’s soloing on that track and it just came together naturally in that live recording session.”
Listen to the single here: https://found.ee/CpyV
5 out of 5 Stars for "Electric Fantastic" on Roots Music Report
“Electric Fantastic” Review by Audiophile Review
A new review just came in for our debut album "Electric Fantastic" from Audiophile Review. "This is a work that covers what most jazz fans like about the genre - great beat, smoothness, improv, energy, and very easy to listen to and like. I know I did." Read the full review here
Thank you Audiophile Review!
The title track 'Electric Fantastic' comes out on all digital platforms next Friday, Aug. 14 followed by the full album on Aug. 21!
"Electric Fantastic" Review from JazzQuad.ru
Jazz Quad (Square) music blog from Russia reviewed Electric Fantatsic:
“Both leaders unanimously recognized the most successful opening (also title) composition Electric Fantastic. According to Beth, there is “great energy, harsh horns, funky mood that calls you to dance. Everyone here is a great soloist and the recording came out very natural in this live recorded session. " Chance believes that "this track captures all the performers at their best." Moore and McColl's compositions differ quite sharply in style. All of Chance's songs are literally saturated with blues, and southern blues. Electric Fantastic, and 800 East, and If You Really Loved Me offer a cool modern blues, and McColl also sings on the last track. I Remember Danny Gatton does not fall under this definition. Beth Moore's compositions are more lyrical and stylistically more diverse: there are more jazz and rock elements. These are Like A Symphony, Words, Beth’s Bounce offer a danceable jazz feel, and a great arrangement of Supertramp's The Logical Song. Paying tribute to the energy of the title play, I will still call this a joint work of Beth and Chance, the best: Blues For Lonnie Williams. Here the slow blues and jazz arrangement are not separated from each other, delicious trumpet and saxophone solos, as if guiding the flow of the theme, finally, McColl himself gave an excellent guitar solo here. The entire album as a whole is, of course, a crossover in terms of stylistics, but still with a predominance of jazz-blues.” — Leonid Auskern, Jazz Quad (Square), Russia
Read the full review here.
Midwest Record Reviews "Electric Fantastic"
Thank you to legendary music site Midwest Record for the review of Electric Fantastic.
Midwest Record: The Moore - McColl JAZZ SOCIETY/Electric Fantastic: A Hotlanta jazz duo with a load of pals willing to lend a hand do a modern take on a classic sound--the 70s organ trio. Not nostalgic, not recidivist, this crew is about letting the good times roll with as much rollick as possible added to the mix. Just a hair too late to be a great Father’s Day gift for your funky pop, you can slip this to him to show you appreciate him any old time. Just the right amount of hot stuff to keep the blood in his legs flowing. http://midwestrecord.com/MWR1671.html
Title Track "Electric Fantastic" to be Released as Single on Aug. 14
We’re happy to announce that the title track to Electric Fantatsic will be released as a single on Friday, Aug. 14 with the full album coming out a week later on Friday, Aug. 21.
