Mood Swing Jazz Band Prescott Arizona

Mood Swing Jazz Band

Mood Swing is a jazz band that performs throughout the Greater Prescott Area. With a vast repertoire that includes favorites from the silver screen era all the way up to modern swing and dance favorites, Mood Swing plays a vast array of Jazz standards and popular music. The band often performs at small clubs to entertain guests as they sip coffee or a glass of wine. By adding a couple of players, Mood Swing is a high energy swing dance band and often plays at parties, festivals and large community events.

Mood Swing has 3 different configurations:

Mood Swing Jazz Instrumental Combo

The Mood Swing Instrumental Combo is either piano and sax or piano, sax, and bass. This group typically plays in coffee houses, wine tasting rooms, and other small venues. They play improvisational jazz favorites out of the Jazz Real Book. This group is great for low volume venues and relaxing atmospheres.

Mood Swing Vocal Jazz Combo

The Mood Swing Vocal Ensemble is a quartet that features piano, sax, bass, and vocals. With music ranging from Ella Fitzgerald to Nat King Cole to Astrud Gilberto, the Mood Swing Vocal Ensemble features both a professional vocalist and improvisational soloists. This group will turn a night out into something special for your customers.

Mood Swing Dance Band

The Mood Swing Dance Band is a perfect addition to your next party or festival. People will want to dance the night away with classic music from the silver screen, high energy swing classics, and beautiful love songs from the last 50 years. The Mood Swing Dance Band features a full rhythm section including bass, drums, piano. It also has professional vocals and improvisational saxophone.

Sample Tracks

Mood Swing Vocal Ensemble: Summertime

Mood Swing Vocal Ensemble: Misty

Mood Swing Vocal Ensemble: The Shadow of Your Smile

Mood Swing Dance Band: Various

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Meet Some of Our Players

Don GriseSaxophone and Flute

Our saxophone player, Don, began playing and performing for over 50 years ago. Don has been performing in the Prescott area with several bands for over 18 years including hundreds of jazz and swing performances. In addition, Don was a member of the U.S. Army Band for six years, performing across the Eastern Seaboard and Mid-Western United States as well as Canada.

Leah MoralesVocals

Leah is a singer, actor, artist and hornist who served in and toured internationally with the Marine Corps Band. In 2008, she attended the Armed Forces School of Music. Leah completed a music performance degree at Yavapai College in the winter of 2020.

Leah currently works as a vocalist, instructor, and instrumentalist and is frequently seen on local stages, with orchestras, and in theatrical productions. She’s the music director for Footlight Productions, and leads a children’s choir at The Movement Studio in Prescott Valley, AZ.

Tristin JohnBass

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George AndrusDrums

George Andrus has been performing as a percussionist for many years. Much of his experience has been in California beginning as a young player. He attended Fullerton college as a music major and studied with legendry players in Southern California such as Les Demerle. George toured with many nationally recognized bands for many years, performed on cruise lines based in Los Angeles and theater companies in Southern California. He played with the Harry James Big Band and led his own band at Knott’s Berry Farm for 10 years. Locally, George has performed with many jazz bands and for show productions at the Yavapai College Center for Performing Arts.