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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. His most recent album, Live in Amsterdam—a collaboration with the Metropole Orkest—was released in 2020.

Early life[edit]

Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, Wong was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[1] Growing up, he was exposed to classic rock and jazz music by his father. He took piano lessons at age nine. He was fascinated by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Primus and decided to play bass and start a band. He took guitar and bass lessons and started a punk rock band. His first instruments were a Fender jazz bass, a Gretsch guitar, and a Fender Stratocaster. He acquired a second Stratocaster in senior year of high school, which remains his primary instrument.[2][3][4]

Career[edit]

Wong attended University of Minnesota and the McNally Smith College of Music. At age 20 he decided to pursue music professionally. He credits his music school environment and his mentors for putting him on the right track. In particular he credits Peruvian guitarist Andrés Prado and Prince’s drummer Michael Bland for showing him the nuances and cohesion of performing in an ensemble.[2][3][5][6] He names guitarists Dave Williams and Paul Jackson Jr. as early influences.[4]

In late 2000s and early 2010s, Wong focused on jazz music and performed in Minneapolis–Saint Paul jazz clubs. He released two records with jazz ensembles, Even Uneven in 2008 and Quartet/Quintet in 2012.[2][7] He then performed in the Nashville music scene on a regular basis as a session musician and guitarist. He started touring with Ben Rector and worked with a variety of artists including Bryan White, Brandon Heath and Dave Barnes.[8] In 2013, for a six-month period he performed in the Minneapolis-based band Dr. Mambo’s Combo with several veterans of the city’s R&B-pop-funk music scene including members of Prince’s band: Michael Bland and bassist Sonny T. He calls this period his learning curve in performing «vibrant funk soul» music.[2][3]

In 2013, Wong met members of the Los Angeles-based band Vulfpeck.[2] He did a jam with the group which was later rerecorded and released as «Cory Wong».[9][10] In 2016, he started recording and touring with the band. He has recorded on every Vulfpeck album since then and toured with the band. He said of his guitar sound with Vulfpeck: «part of my sound is kind of bringing rhythm guitar to the front». He is a member of The Fearless Flyers, an instrumental quartet (with Vulfpeck’s bass player Joe Dart, Snarky Puppy’s guitarist Mark Lettieri and drummer Nate Smith) and has released two EPs with the group.[3][7][11]

In 2016, Wong released a six-track EP as a lead artist. In 2017, he released his debut solo album, Cory Wong and The Green Screen Band.[7] His second solo album The Optimist was released in 2018 and reached number 19 on the U.S. Jazz Albums chart.[6][12] He released a third album Motivational Music for the Syncopated Soul in 2019.[4] The albums feature contributions by Phoebe Katis, Antwaun Stanley, Michael Bland, Sonny T., Ben Rector, Jon Batiste, Louis Cato, Nate Smith and others.[7][13] In 2020, Wong released his fourth solo album, Elevator Music for an Elevated Mood, which he called a continuation of his third album.[14]

Wong has performed with Dave Koz, Metropole Orkest, Stay Human, the house band of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and with Chris Thile’s band on the radio program Live from Here.[15] He has toured in the United States and Europe in support of his solo albums, and with Vulfpeck.[16][17]

Equipment[edit]

Wong’s primary equipment includes, Guitar: Fender Highway One Stratocaster with Seymour Duncan Antiquity pickups, Amplifiers: Fender ’65 Super Reverb reissue and Kemper Profiler, Strings: D’Addario NYXL (.010–.046),[16]Accessories: Wampler Ego Compressor, Vertex Steel String Clean Drive, Strymon Big Sky.[17] He uses a variety of other instruments and accessories as well.[16][17] He aims for a clean tone and often records direct.[18]

Discography[edit]

Studio albums

• Cory Wong and The Green Screen Band (2017)
• The Optimist (2018)
• Motivational Music for the Syncopated Soul (2019)
• Elevator Music for an Elevated Mood (2020)

Extended plays

• MSP (Part 1) (2016)

Live albums

• Live in Minneapolis (2019)
• Live on the Lido Deck (Dave Koz Cruise) (2019)
• Live in the U.K. (2019)
• Live in Amsterdam (2020) with Metropole Orkest

As primary artist

• Even Uneven (2008)
• Quartet/Quintet (2012)

With others

• Pena (2010) with Peña[19]
• The Beautiful Game (2016) with Vulfpeck
• Mr Finish Line (2017) with Vulfpeck
• Hill Climber (2018) with Vulfpeck
• Live at Madison Square Garden (2019) with Vulfpeck
• The Fearless Flyers (2018) with The Fearless Flyers
• The Fearless Flyers II (2019) with The Fearless Flyers
• Money (2020) with Lexsoul Dancemachine
• Meditations (2020) with Jon Batiste

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Cory Wong on Facebook
• Interview with Cory Wong, 2019, at Total Guitar magazine
• Cory Wong’s picking technique on YouTube

John Carreyrou ()[1] is a French-American journalist. He worked for The Wall Street Journal between 1999 and 2019[2] and has been based in Brussels, Paris, and New York City. He has won the Pulitzer Prize twice and is well known for having exposed the multibillion-dollar blood-testing company Theranos as a fraud in a series of articles published in the Journal.

Early life and career[edit]

John Carreyrou was born to French journalist Gérard Carreyrou [fr] and an American mother. He grew up in Paris.[3] Carreyrou graduated from Duke University in 1994 with a B.A. in political science and government.

After graduation, he joined the Dow Jones Newswires. In 1999, he joined The Wall Street Journal Europe at Brussels.[4] In 2001, he moved to Paris to cover French business and other topics such as terrorism. In 2003, he was appointed the deputy bureau chief for Southern Europe. He covered French politics and business, Spain, and Portugal.[5] By 2008, he was the deputy bureau chief and later bureau chief of the health and science bureau in New York.[6]

In late 2015, Carreyrou began a series of investigative articles on Theranos, the blood-testing start-up founded by Elizabeth Holmes, that questioned its claim to be able to run a wide range of lab tests from a tiny sample of blood from a finger prick.[7][8][9] Holmes had turned to Rupert Murdoch, whose media empire includes Carreyrou’s employer, The Wall Street Journal, to kill the story. Murdoch, who became the biggest investor in Theranos in 2015 as a result of his $125 million injection, refused the request from Holmes saying that «he trusted the paper’s editors to handle the matter fairly».[10][11] In May 2018, Carreyrou’s book-length treatment of the topic Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup was published by Knopf.[12] Carreyrou also features prominently in a documentary about Theranos called The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.

In August 2019, Carreyrou left the Wall Street Journal opting for paid speaking engagements that are banned by the newspaper. For future plans he commented «I want to keep writing non-fiction books for the second part of my career».[13][14]

Awards[edit]

In 2003, Carreyrou shared the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting with a team of Wall Street Journal reporters for a series of stories that exposed corporate scandals in America.[15][16] Carreyrou co-authored the article Damage Control: How Messier Kept Cash Crisis at Vivendi Hidden for Months, published Oct. 31, 2002.[17]

In 2003, Carreyrou won the German Marshall Fund’s Peter R. Weitz Junior Prize for excellence in reporting on European affairs for his detailed coverage of the downfall of Vivendi Universal SA and its chairman, Jean-Marie Messier.[18]

In 2004, Carreyrou shared the German Marshall Fund’s Peter R. Weitz Senior Prize for excellence in reporting on European affairs with a team of six Wall Street Journal journalists.[19] In the five-part series titled The Disintegration of the Trans-Atlantic Relationship over the Iraq War Carreyrou contributed the article In Normandy, U.S.-France Feud Cuts Deep.[20] Published on February 24, 2003, while Carreyrou was based in Paris, the article explored how France’s Normandy region, site of the D-Day landings, was caught between gratitude for the U.S. role in World War II and France’s opposition to war in Iraq.[21]

In 2015, Carreyrou shared the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative with a team of investigative reporters at The Wall Street Journal for «Medicare Unmasked», a project that forced the American government in 2014 to release important Medicare data kept secret for decades, and in a sweeping investigative series uncovered abuses that cost taxpayers billions.[22][23][24] Carreyrou co-authored four articles in the series: Taxpayers face big tab for unusual doctor billings,[25]A fast-growing medical lab tests anti-kickback law,[26]Doctor ‘self-referral’ thrives on legal loophole[27] and Sprawling medicare struggles to fight fraud.[28]

In 2016, Carreyrou received the 67th annual George Polk Awards in Journalism for Financial Reporting in 2015,[29] and the Gerald Loeb Award for Beat Reporting.[30] His investigation of Theranos, Inc. «raised serious doubts about claims by the firm and its celebrated 31-year-old founder, Elizabeth Holmes».[29] According to Vanity Fair, «a damning report published in The Wall Street Journal had alleged that the company was, in effect, a sham».[31][32] Carreyrou wrote the report.[31][32] A book-length treatment titled Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (2018)[33] won the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.[34] A film version is in the works starring Jennifer Lawrence, written by Vanessa Taylor, and directed by Adam McKay.[35]

Personal life[edit]

He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife Molly Schuetz, an editor at Bloomberg News[36], and their three children.[37]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• John Carreyrou – News, Articles, Biography, Photos at The Wall Street Journal