Cory Wong discography
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The discography of American guitarist Cory Wong which consists of 19 studio albums (14 solo albums, three with The Fearless Flyers, and one with Cory Wong Quartet), four collaboration albums, ten live albums, one EP, 55 singles (40 as a lead artist and 15 as a featured artist), and over 60 other appearances.
Studio albums14
EPs1
Live albums10
Singles40
| Cory Wong discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 14 |
| EPs | 1 |
| Live albums | 10 |
| Singles | 40 |
| As featured artist | 15 |
| Collaboration albums | 5 |
| Other appearances | 65 |
Albums
Studio albums
Solo albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart position | |||||||||
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| US Jazz [1] |
US Contemp Jazz [2] | ||||||||||
| Becoming |
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| Quartet/Quintet |
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— | — | ||||||||
| Cory Wong and The Green Screen Band[3] |
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— | — | ||||||||
| The Optimist[4] |
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19 | 14 | ||||||||
| Motivational Music for the Syncopated Soul[5] |
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16 | 7 | ||||||||
| Elevator Music for an Elevated Mood[6] |
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— | 14 | ||||||||
| Trail Songs : Dusk[7] |
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— | — | ||||||||
| Trail Songs (Dawn)[8] |
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— | — | ||||||||
| The Striped Album[9] |
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— | — | ||||||||
| Cory Wong & The Wongnotes |
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— | — | ||||||||
| Wong's Cafe[11] |
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— | — | ||||||||
| Power Station[12] |
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— | — | ||||||||
| The Lucky One[13] |
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— | — | ||||||||
| Starship Syncopation |
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— | — | ||||||||
| Lost in the Wonder[14] |
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| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||
Cory Wong Quartet
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Even Uneven |
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The Fearless Flyers
| Title | Album details |
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| The Fearless Flyers |
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| The Fearless Flyers II |
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| Tailwinds |
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| The Fearless Flyers III |
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| The Fearless Flyers IV |
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| The Fearless Flyers V |
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| Live in Italy |
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Collaborations
| Title | Album details | Peak chart position | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Jazz [1] |
US Contemp Jazz [2] | ||||||||||
| Pena (Peña and Cory Wong)[15] |
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— | — | ||||||||
| Meditations (Jon Batiste and Cory Wong)[16] |
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— | — | ||||||||
| The Golden Hour (Dave Koz and Cory Wong)[17] |
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16 | 5 | ||||||||
| Turbo (Cory Wong and Dirty Loops)[18] |
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16 | 3 | ||||||||
| Starship Syncopation (Cory Wong with Metropole Orkest and Jules Buckley) |
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— | — | ||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||
Live albums
| Title | Album details | Ref. |
|---|---|---|
| Live in Minneapolis |
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| Live on the Lido Deck |
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| Live in the U.K. |
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| Live in Amsterdam (Cory Wong and Metropole Orkest) |
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[A][19] |
| Live at First Avenue |
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| The Syncopate & Motivate Tour (Set 1) |
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[20] |
| The Syncopate & Motivate Tour (Set 2) |
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[21] |
| The Paisley Park Session |
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[22][23] |
| Wong on Ice |
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[B][24] |
| The Power Station Tour (West Coast) |
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[25] |
| The Power Station Tour (East Coast) |
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[26] |
| Cory Wong Live at Montreux Jazz Fest |
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| "Live in London" |
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| Wong Air (Live in America) |
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Extended plays
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| MSP, Pt. 1 |
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Singles
As lead artist
| Title | Year | Album | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Jax" | 2018 | The Optimist | |
| "Light as Anything (featuring Robbie Wulfsohn) |
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| "Friends at Sea" / "The Optimist" (with Dave Koz) |
The Koz Nod | [C][27] | |
| "Want Me Back" / "Better" (with Cody Fry and Dynamo) |
2019 | 08.26.18 | [D] |
| "Limited World" (featuring Caleb Hawley) |
Motivational Music for the Syncopated Soul | ||
| "Home" (featuring Jon Batiste) |
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| "Home (Alternate Take)" | Non-album single | ||
| "Golden" (featuring Cody Fry) |
2020 | Elevated Music for an Elevated Mood | [28] |
| "Meritage" | Non-album single | ||
| "Blackbird" | Trail Songs : Dusk | ||
| "Bluebird" (featuring Chris Thile) |
Trail Songs (Dawn) | [29] | |
| "Massive" (featuring Joe Satriani) |
The Striped Album | [30][31] | |
| "Design" (featuring Kimbra) |
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| "Smooth Move" | |||
| "Coming Back Around" (featuring Cody Fry) |
2021 | Cory Wong & The Wongnotes | [32] |
| "United" (featuring Antwaun Stanley) |
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| "Today" (with Dave Koz) |
The Golden Hour | [17] | |
| "Getaway Car" (with Dave Koz) |
[33] | ||
| "Follow the Light" (with Dirty Loops) |
Turbo | [34] | |
| "Ring of Saturn" (with Dirty Loops) |
[35] | ||
| "Smokeshow" | Wong's Cafe | [11] | |
| "Disco De Lune" | [36] | ||
| "You Got to be You" | [37] | ||
| "Power Station" | 2022 | Power Station | |
| "Crisis" (featuring Big Wild) |
[12] | ||
| "J.A.M. (Just a Minute)" (featuring Chromeo) |
[38] | ||
| "Look at Me" (featuring Allen Stone) |
2023 | The Lucky One | [39] |
| "Ready" (featuring Ben Rector) |
[40] | ||
| "Hiding on the Moon" (featuring O.A.R.) |
[41] | ||
| "The Grid Generation" (featuring Louis Cole) |
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| "Call Me Wild" (featuring Dodie) |
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| "On My Mind" (Alexander 23 with Cory Wong) |
2024 | Non-album single | |
| "Burning" (with Metropole Orkest and Jules Buckley) |
Starship Syncopation | ||
| "Quotidian Fields" (with Metropole Orkest and Jules Buckley) |
[42] | ||
| "Tongue Tied" (featuring Stephen Day) |
2025 | Lost in the Wonder | [43] |
| "Lost in the Wonder" (featuring Benny Sings) |
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| "Blame It on the Moon" (featuring Magic City Hippies) |
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| "One Way Road" (featuring Yam Haus) |
2026 | [44] | |
| "Better Than This" | [45] | ||
| "Lisa Never Wanted to be Famous" (featuring Theo Katzman) |
[46] |
As featured artist
| Title | Year | Album | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Line by Line" (Prep featuring Cory Wong and Paul Jackson Jr.) |
2018 | Non-album single | [47] |
| "Money" (Lexsoul Dancemachine featuring Cory Wong) |
2020 | Lexsplosion II | |
| "This Dream" (Marc Scabilia featuring Cory Wong) |
Seed of Joy | ||
| "Adventure" (Alex Bone featuring Cory Wong) |
2021 | Falling on Infinity | |
| "Spare Tire" (Ariel Posen with Cory Wong) |
Non-album singles | [48] | |
| "Joyful Strut" (The Snowman Band featuring St. Paul Peterson, Kevin Gastonguay, and Cory Wong) |
2022 | ||
| "I'll Take That Dare" (KOATS featuring Cory Wong) |
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| "Jelly" (Brother Strut featuring Cory Wong) |
2023 | ||
| "Todome no Ichigeki" (Vaundy featuring Cory Wong) |
[49][50] | ||
| "Everything Smells Like Salmon" (Tom McGovern featuring Cory Wong) |
2024 | ||
| "The Power of Love" (Grace Kelly featuring Cory Wong) |
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| "Tunnel" (Huntertones featuring Cory Wong) |
Motionation | [51] | |
| "Hey Blue" (Rei featuring Cory Wong) |
Non-albums singles | ||
| "Targets" (Night Talks featuring Cory Wong) |
2025 | [52] | |
| "Strangers" (Ripe featuring Cory Wong) |
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| "Sunset" (Tim Henson featuring Plini and Cory Wong) |
[E] |
Production and songwriting
These are writing and production credits for music outside of Wong's own solo work.
| Title | Year | Artist | Album | Notes | Ref. | ||||||
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| N/a | 2016 | Vulfpeck | The Beautiful Game | Writer - Tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 | |||||||
| "The Ace of Aces" | 2018 | The Fearless Flyers | The Fearless Flyers | Writer | |||||||
| "Barbara" | Writer | ||||||||||
| "Bicentennial" | Writer Producer | ||||||||||
| N/a | 2019 | Phoebe Katis | Honesty | Producer | [54] | ||||||
| The Fearless Flyers | The Fearless Flyers II | Writer Producer |
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| 2020 | Phoebe Katis | It's Ok to Cry | Producer | [55] | |||||||
| "Money" | Lexsoul Dancemachine | Lexplosion II | Co-writer | ||||||||
| "Nate Smith is the Ace of Aces" | The Fearless Flyers | Tailwinds | Co-writer - Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 | [56] | |||||||
| "Introducing the Delta Force" | Writer Producer | ||||||||||
| "Colonel Panic" | Co-writer Producer | ||||||||||
| "Ambush" | Writer | ||||||||||
| Kauai | Writer | ||||||||||
| N/a | 2021 | Phoebe Katis | Sweet Reunion | Producer | [57] | ||||||
| "On My Mind" | 2024 | Alexander 23 (featuring Cory Wong) |
N/a | Co-writer | |||||||
| "—" denotes he didn't contribute to just one song, but multiple songs or an entire album. | |||||||||||
Other appearances
| Title | Year | Credited artist(s) | Album | Ref. | |||||||
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| "Animal Spirits" | 2016 | Vulfpeck | The Beautiful Game | [58] | |||||||
| "Dean Town" | |||||||||||
| "Conscious Club" | |||||||||||
| "1 for 1, DiMaggio" | |||||||||||
| "Margery, My First Car" | |||||||||||
| "Aunt Leslie" | |||||||||||
| "Cory Wong" | |||||||||||
| "Mr. Finish Line" | 2017 | Vulfpeck (featuring Christine Hucal and Theo Katzman) |
Mr Finish Line | [59] | |||||||
| "Tee Time" | Vulfpeck | ||||||||||
| "Hero Town" | Vulfpeck (featuring Michael Bland) | ||||||||||
| "Half of the Way" | 2018 | Vulfpeck (featuring Theo Katzman) |
Hill Climber | ||||||||
| "Darwin Derby" | Vulfpeck | ||||||||||
| "Love is a Beautiful Thing" | Vulfpeck (featuring Theo Katzman and Monica Martin) |
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| "For Survival" | Vulfpeck (featuring Mike Viola) |
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| "Lost My Treble Long Ago" | Vulfpeck | ||||||||||
| "Disco Ulysses (Instrumental)" | |||||||||||
| "The Cup Stacker" | |||||||||||
| "It Gets Funkier IV" | Vulfpeck (featuring Louis Cole) |
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| "20s" | 2019 | Phoebe Katis | Honesty | [54] | |||||||
| "Touches" | |||||||||||
| "Make Believe" | |||||||||||
| "Anyway" | |||||||||||
| "All It Takes" | |||||||||||
| "Maybe" | |||||||||||
| "Honesty" | |||||||||||
| "Zurück Ins Studio" | Marti Fischer | Album Eins | [60] | ||||||||
| "Promenade" | Marti Fischer (featuring Davis Schulz) |
[61] | |||||||||
| "Die Farbe Null" | Marti Fischer | [62] | |||||||||
| "Der Gang" | Marti Fischer (featuring Make a Move) |
[63] | |||||||||
| "Cameron" | Marti Fischer | [64] | |||||||||
| "Apfelschorle" | [65] | ||||||||||
| "Öde" | [66] | ||||||||||
| "Nicht Cool" | Marti Fischer (featuring Davis Schulz) |
[67] | |||||||||
| "Nebelmaschine" | Marti Fischer | [68] | |||||||||
| "Muse" | Marti Fischer (featuring Tommy Blackout and Miirtek) |
[69] | |||||||||
| "Bernstein Gold" | Marti Fischer | [70] | |||||||||
| N/a | Vulfpeck (Jack Stratton, Theo Katzman, Woody Goss, Joe Dart), Cory Wong, Michael Winograd, Joey Dosik, Richie Rodriguez, Melissa Gardiner, Nate Smith, Dave Koz, Chris Thile, Charles Jones, Ryan Lerman, Antwaun Stanley, Mark Dover, Chris Grymes | Live at Madison Square Garden | [71] | ||||||||
| "Wait for the Moment" | Woody Goss Trio | A Very Vulfy Christmas | [72] | ||||||||
| "Hollywood Witches" | 2020 | Woody and Jeremy | Strange Satisfaction | [73] | |||||||
| "Under the Sky So Blue" | Evan Marien (EMAR) | EMAR Vol. 3 - Minus Bass | [74] | ||||||||
| "Welcome to Bacon Road" | |||||||||||
| N/a | Fearless Flyers | Tailwinds | |||||||||
| "It's Ok to Cry" | Phoebe Katis | It's Ok to Cry | [75] | ||||||||
| "You Make Everything Better" | |||||||||||
| "Placebo" | |||||||||||
| "Better Than This" | |||||||||||
| "Sometimes It's Meant to Hurt" | |||||||||||
| "Let Me Lose You" | |||||||||||
| "The Way We Feel" | |||||||||||
| "3 on E" | Vulfpeck | The Joy of Music, The Job of Real Estate | |||||||||
| "Test Drive (Instrumental)" | |||||||||||
| "Radio Shack" | |||||||||||
| "LAX" | Vulfpeck (featuring Joey Dosik) | ||||||||||
| "Something" | Vulfpeck | ||||||||||
| "Paris" | 2021 | Phoebe Katis | Sweet Reunion | [57] | |||||||
| "Never Be a Cool Girl" | |||||||||||
| "It Takes Two" | |||||||||||
| "Hope We're Happier" | |||||||||||
| "How Far We Come" | |||||||||||
| "Crypto Cowboy" | 2022 | Potash Twins (featuring Cory Wong) |
Hornography | [76] | |||||||
| "Somebody to You" | 2023 | Cody Fry (featuring Vincen Garcia and Cory Wong) |
The End | ||||||||
| "Old Skool Funk" | 2025 | Matt Johnson (featuring Triple H Horns, Jeff Lorber, and Cory Wong) |
Warrior Princess | ||||||||
| "Skunk" | 2026 | Bump2Soul (featuring Cory Wong) |
Bump2's | ||||||||
| "Spark It" | Jack Gardiner (featuring Cory Wong) |
Kintsugi | [77] | ||||||||
| "—" denotes he wasn't on one song, but an entire album. | |||||||||||
Notes
- 08.26.18 is the name of a two-song single.
- "Sunset" was originally released in 2022 as a showcase of their individual Neural DSP Archetype plugins[53] but released as a single on streaming services in 2025.