Jon Natchez is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer based in New York City. He has a prolific career as a sideman and recording artist on albums and soundtracks, composing and arranging as well as playing diverse instruments including saxophone, trumpet, flugelhorn, bass, lap steel, banjo, tuba, guitar, mandolin, keyboards, trombone, clarinet, French horn, and modular synthesizers. He started his career as a member of groups such as Stars Like Fleas, The Silent League and most notably Beirut, which he was a member of for three years. After two years with the trio Yellow Ostrich, he joined the group The War on Drugs, who he continues to tour and record with.