Right-Hand Man
VULFPECK FUNK MAESTRO Cory Wong was first exposed to music by his “music freak, music head” father, who’d constantly play records around the house. As a result, Wong’s formative years were played out against a soundtrack provided by Jimi Hendrix, Joe Pass, Pat Metheny and Ralph Towner.
“My dad had all this ECM catalog, the CTI jazz catalog and the Blue Note catalog — and then he had all this classic rock catalog,” he tells us on a rain-soaked day in the U.K. A great deal of the music he heard courtesy of his dad was guitar-driven, and the young Wong was “interested in the sound, interested in what it did to me emotionally, how
