Coasting - Joyce Cooling

In 2000, Cooling and Wagner signed with GRP/Verve Music Group and released their fourth CD, Third Wish on the fateful day of September 11, 2001. In spite of the unfortunate timing of events, Third Wish produced two more top-ten singles: "Mm Mm Good", featuring Joyce’s GRP labelmate, Al Jarreau, and "Daddy-O", a tribute to Wagner’s father. The track, "Tamba", features percussionist Helcio Milito, the founder of Brazil’s Tamba Trio, one of Brazil’s most important and influential bossa nova groups.

In October 2001, Cooling recorded "The Christmas Song" with Lee Ritenour for the 2001 GRP holiday compilation, Making Spirits Bright. In the following year (2002) she was a nominee for Best Jazz Artist (California Music Awards), Best Female Artist of the Year (Smooth Jazz Awards) and Best Guitarist of the Year (Smooth Jazz Awards).

In 2003 Cooling and Wagner signed with Narada Jazz/EMI and in 2004 they released their fifth CD, This Girl’s Got To Play. The CD generated another Top-10 radio single, "Expression". Later that year they contributed their version of Leon Russell’s, "A Song For You", to the Narada Jazz compilation CD, The Love Project.

Cooling’s sixth CD, Revolving Door, was released as Narada Jazz merged with the Blue Note label in 2006. The CD produced three more charting original singles, "Mildred’s Attraction", "At the Modern", and "Cool of the Night". The accompanying video for Cool of the Night, produced by Progressive Pulse, was filmed and released in 2007.

Although Cooling had been a long-time member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Revolving Door signaled Cooling’s official involvement with NAMI as a national advocate for the organization. Joyce has performed at NAMI national and regional events across the country and Cooling and Wagner donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of their CDs to NAMI.

Cooling and Wagner recorded and released their original holiday song, "It’s Feeling Like Christmas", in time for the 2008 holiday season. The accompanying music video, produced by Progressive Pulse, was filmed and released in tandem with the song. It’s Feeling Like Christmas was named Song of the Month for the International Review of Music in December 2009 and received a glowing review from former music critic for the Los Angeles Times, Don Heckman. A portion of the proceeds from the song went to NAMI

Global Cooling, is Cooling’s seventh studio CD and was released on April 22, 2009. The album spawned the single, "Dolores in Pink", and was chosen as Album of the Year by PhoenixFM in the U.K.