James Wengrow is a Brooklyn-based guitarist and composer from Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia.
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James is featured on albums released in 2025! Click titles to listen.
4000 Records
Featured in Bandcamp Daily - Essential Releases of the Week
"A sprightly collage of experimental jazz, heavy prog, math rock, and neoclassical music...
Capitalizing on the strong family ties between math rock and jazz while simultaneously exploiting their structural differences in smart, unique ways." (Zoe Camp)
JONATHON CROMPTON'S CANTATA PROJECT:
AN ISLAND SEEN & FELT
Amica Records
Featured in WCKR, ABC Radio National, ABC Classic FM, Spotify's Classical Music Playlist, The Saturday Paper, Forte Magazine, Rhythms Magazine.
"Written for alto saxophone, two sopranos and strings, with electric guitar by James Wengrow, the new work is a breathy, tremulous meditation on the shores of his native Victoria – as well as an exploration of the Australian landscape’s capacity to inspire and ethereal...the ponderous flicker of electric guitar. This unfurling of mysterious textures creates an effect of sunlight glimmering across the sea at sunrise, a dawning surge of soft energy that begins to enter its stride with the soulful gusts of Crompton’s alto saxophone." (Liam Heitmann-Ryce-LeMercier.)
Other recent releases of live, freely improvised performances
MARTIN KAY / JAMES WENGROW / MAX FOWLER-ROY / TIMOTHY GREEN - LIVE AT THE CAVE INN
Jazz in Meanjin/4000 Records
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KEVIN SCOTT / DANNY SHER / JAMES WENGROW /
AUSTIN WHITE - 29th STREET PRESENTS: VOL 1
29th Street Editions
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Below are short video samples of
JAMES WENGROW CRYPSIS TRIO (WITH MATHIAS
JENSEN & JAMES PAUL NADIEN)
FREE IMPROV. TRIO (WITH HERY PAZ & NADIEN)
XAVIER DEL CASTILLO'S THE WHITE VISITATION
JONATHON CROMPTON'S CANTATA PROJECT



