Jon Natchez is a composer, arranger, songwriter, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist. As a member of The War on Drugs, he won a Grammy in 2018 and is currently working on the band's follow-up album. He was formerly a member of the acclaimed groups Beirut, Yellow Ostrich, and Stars Like Fleas, and has performed and/or recorded with David Byrne, St. Vincent, The National, Father John Misty, Mary Lattimore, Craig Wedren, Taylor Mac, Owen Pallett, John Zorn, and Liza Minnelli, among many others.

Recent feature scores include Luzzu (Sundance 2021), The Climb (2020, winner of Coup de Coeur, Cannes 2019), No Future (Tribeca 2020), Light From Light (Sundance 2019), Mafak (Venice 2018), and Boo! (2018, winner of Best Score at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival); he also has composed for the films Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019), William (2019), and A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018), as well as the Netflix series Chef's Table (2019), Afflicted (2018), and Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On (2017). He has contributed to more than a hundred albums, composing & arranging as well as playing more than 30 instruments, including saxophone, trumpet, flugelhorn, bass, lap steel, keyboards, banjo, tuba, guitar, mandolin, trombone, clarinets, French horn, and modular synthesizers.