New York-based musician Spencer Zahn is an integral part of his local jazz scene, regularly collaborating and pushing boundaries among his contemporaries.

Born in Massachusetts, he took up the bass guitar when he was 12 and many years later became an accomplished jazz bassist. He moved to New York and found work as a touring musician. He started a solo career in 2015, working with Dave Harrington and focusing on instrumental music. Within a few years he had released two solo albums, 2018's People of the Dawn and 2019's When We Were Brand New; both records were synth-heavy with jazz inflections. Zahn built up a strong musical community around himself, which he showcased with the release of 2020's Sunday Painter. Two further albums arrived in 2022, the solo Pale Horizon and a collaboration with Dawn Richards called Pigments. ~ Liam Martin, Rovi