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James Wengrow is a Brooklyn-based guitarist and composer from Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia. Fusing idioms while maintaining a distinguishable sonic personality, James’ output has been described as “A sprightly collage of experimental jazz, heavy prog, math rock, and neoclassical music...The perfect stop-over for curious rock fans looking to branch to jazz and visa versa" (Bandcamp Daily), and “delving deep into territory that is as much Fugazi as it is [Miles] Davis... a blazing intensity to the heavier passages neatly offset by occasional moments of shimmering beauty” (Sonic Abuse). Drawing similarities to Ornette Coleman and the Avant-garde, All About Jazz states “...[James’] music summons the same tumult, or at least the same clamor felt in the early 1960s... the spirit and energy of those times is unmistakable.”

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Emissary

By James Wengrow

Label: Endectomorph
Released: 2026
Track listing: Jacket Barter; Aflame Inside In Public; This Is For Us To Share; Cropsey Cabin; Arborealpolitik; Let's Call This; Deadline Junky; Emissary.

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Jacket Barter

August 20, 2026

Album: Emissary
By James Wengrow
Label: Endectomorph
Released: 2026
Duration: 8:16

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Cropsey Cabin

Featuring the music of James Wengrow
Duration: 7:04
July 15, 2026

'Emissary' is the ambitious debut album from James Wengrow Crypsis Trio, a Brooklyn-based avant-jazz group synthesizing jazz, free improvisation, contemporary classical, and math-rock into an utterly visceral guitar trio experience. Recorded by Joseph Branciforte and mastered by Brent Lambert, the album features six original compositions forged during a tumultuous period of intercontinental displacement, alongside interpretations of John McLaughlin's "This Is For Us To Share" and Thelonious Monk's "Let's Call This." Australian guitarist Wengrow, Danish bassist Mathias Højgaard Jensen, and New York drummer James Paul Nadien embark on impassioned journeys through rapidly shifting sonic terrains—frenetic free passages colliding with polyrhythmic grooves and math-rock precision. This is modern jazz that capitalizes on the structural ties between genres “while exploiting their differences in smart, unique ways.” (Bandcamp Daily)

Article: Album Review

James Wengrow: Emissary

by Max Kutner
July 10, 2026

On Emissary, his debut as a bandleader, guitarist and composer James Wengrow unleashes a collection of angular micro-symphonies that inhabit an abstract space while remaining meticulously detailed. Joined by a pair of brilliantly adept and aesthetically flexible musicians in bassist Mathias Højgaard Jensen and drummer James Paul Nadien, Crypsis trio can thoroughly explore, develop and present Wengrow's labyrinthine ideas ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Tyshawn Sorey, Benoit Delbecq, Enten Eller & James Wengrow

by Maurice Hogue
June 15, 2026

Drummer/composer Tyshawn Sorey's new Members... Don't is a contender for recording of the year. He reimagines fellow drummer Max Roach's Members Don't Git Weary from 1968 and reminds us that the original's political and social exhortations remain as evident and concerning today. Sorey's music is extremely powerful. Guitarist James Wengrow is an Aussie with big notes ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Gabrielle Cavassa, Joe Lovano, Phillip Golub, Amrita, James Wengrow

by Cheryl K.
May 31, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music--vocalists Eartha Kitt, Gabrielle Cavassa and Stella Heath; saxophonist Joe Lovano and his Paramount Quartet; pianists Phillip Golub and Emmet Cohen; the ensemble Tumbao Bravo with bandleader and reedman Paul Vornhagen; the ensemble Ancient Future; the duo Amrita; and guitarists Vladimir Redzic, Tomas Janzon, and James Wengrow ...

Album

Vicious Twee

By Dropbear Lodge

Label: 4000 Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Pangolin vs Concrete; Manus; The Good, The Bad, and the Fugly; Pew (Watercleaner; Vicious Twee; 2:3 2:3 (The Rhumba of the Beast); Impending

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