Vulfpeck collaborator and all-around goofball Cory Wong released his second solo LP last month, a follow-up to 2017's Cory Wong and the Green Screen Band. It's called The Optimist, which seems an appropriate title for music so effortlessly cheery. Wong and his talented crew swung by the Paste Studios in New York City on Thursday to play four tracks from the record, but their set morphed into a full-blown jam session, complete with plenty of bandmate banter and jazzy undertones.