About
Cory Wright is a a reeds player and composer living and working in the San Francisco Bay area. He studied at Oberlin College and the University of Southern California, and has been involved in both the jazz and creative music worlds for the past 30 years, including time living in New York and Los Angeles. His recent projects reflect his interest in blurring the distinction between composed and improvised material and in combining the harmonious with the atonal, and groove with the arrhythmic.
Cory has played in ensembles lead by Anthony Braxton, Vinny Golia, Eddie Gale, Adam Rudolph and Yusef Lateef. He is currently a member of bay area groups Crushing Spiral Ensemble, the Nathan Clevenger Group and Orchestra Nostalgico, is co-composer for Goggle Saxophone Quartet and Bristle, and he leads his own projects Green Mitchell, Fellow Hominids and the Cory Wright Outfit.