Cory

Cory Wong is an American guitarist, songwriter and producer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has released several works as a solo artist and in partnership with others. His background spans several genres including jazz. He has performed with Vulfpeck, Stay Human and Chris Thile. He released several albums in 2020, including Live in Amsterdam, a collaboration with the Metropole Orkest, and Meditations, a Grammy nominated new-age album with Jon Batiste.

Grammy-nominated guitarist, producer and composer Cory Wong is set to release his much-anticipated fourth solo studio album The Lucky One, which will be released on Roundwound Media on August 18th 2023. In addition to a skyrocketing solo career, which will see him perform his biggest UK headline show to date at the 5000-capacity Eventim Apollo in London this autumn, Wong is also a member of the internationally acclaimed funk-jam band Vulfpeck and hosts his hugely popular podcast Wong Notes and variety show Cory Wong And The Wong Notes.

Recognized for his high-speed improvisational skills, fun-loving performance spirit, and a flexible right wrist, guitarist Cory Wong had a multifaceted music career in his base of Minneapolis, Minnesota, before becoming better known for regular guest spots as rhythm guitarist for Ann Arbor R&B/funk outfit Vulfpeck in the mid-2010s. Often incorporating intricate, percussive picking into his rhythm playing, his style merges acoustic and electric techniques gleaned from years invested in both. Wong's second solo LP, a set of lighthearted jazz-funk titled The Optimist, debuted in the Top 20 of the Billboard Jazz Albums chart upon its release in 2018. He picked up a Grammy nomination for his 2020 collaboration with Jon Batiste, Meditations, and returned in 2021 with another collaboration, Golden Hour, with saxophonist Dave Koz. He then joined forces with a bevy of guest artists – including Chromeo, Victor Wooten, and Béla Fleck – on the '80s funk- and pop-inspired Power Station.

Cellar Music boss Cory Weeds returns with another fine recording backed by the dependently swinging rhythm section of frequent Cellar Music players (pianist Miles Black, bassist John Lee, and drummer Jesse Cahill) and alongside the famously big horn of Jerry Weldon! Weeds is an accomplished and highly stylized tenor man cut from the swinging cloth of Gene Ammons, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, and George Coleman. On 'Meets Jerry Weldon', this winning formula continues. This recording is not sheepish about acknowledging its two-tenor front line influences.

Impishly impossible to pin down, Cory Hanson's music changes shape with almost every new thing he creates. As the central creative presence in Wand, Hanson has led the group through various styles of wild and ragged psychedelia, but his solo albums have been a different story every time. Happening in parallel with Wand's output, Hanson's solo work has taken the form of tense Americana, narrative indie rock, and with 2023's Western Cum, a merging of Wand's layered conceptual psych and rootsier workingman rock influences. His fourth solo album I Love People takes yet another dramatic and disorienting turn, eschewing overt psychedelia and embracing the influence of bright, highly polished 1970s singer/songwriter and soft rock fare.

Singer-songwriter Cory Wells has announced his brand new album.

Cory Weeds delivers a blistering set of Italian themed tunes backed up by one of the pre-eminent organs bands in jazz today!

Many muddled accelerations shape this: beginning with my longstanding but increasingly spellbound appreciation for Andrew Hill’s record Lift Every Voice and the James Weldon Johnson-derived lineage of optimistic songcraft it transform…