After attending Indiana State University for a year, he toured with jazz groups in Indianapolis and Cincinnati and worked with Claude Sifferlen and Steve Allee.
During the next few years he toured with Woody Herman's Thundering Herd and the Count Basie Orchestra.
With a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), he studied with jazz bassist Rufus Reid.
He played double bass in Allee's trio and on the group's albums Colors and Dragonfly, both released by Owl Studios.
Moring has played and recorded with singers Joe Williams, Mel Tormé, Dakota Staton, Maxine Sullivan, and Susannah McCorkle, instrumentalists Frank Foster, Al Cohn, Clark Terry, Mickey Roker, Tommy Flanagan, Junior Cook, Roland Hanna, Vernel Fournier, Mel Lewis, and Ray Barretto and contemporary musicians John Abercrombie, Gary Bartz, Larry Coryell, Dave Kikoski, Billy Hart, Eddie Henderson, Joe Locke, Mulgrew Miller, Chris Potter, Dave Stryker, and James Williams.