Jeremy Zuckerman is an American composer based in Los Angeles, best known for scoring Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra with collaborator Benjamin Wynn (Deru). The Mondo and iam8bit vinyl editions of those pan-Asian-inflected scores are collector favorites — start with the Avatar releases. Find Jeremy Zuckerman vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Jeremy Zuckerman is an American composer based in Los Angeles. He is best known for his television score work for Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008), The Legend of Korra (2012-2014), and the Netflix live-action Avatar adaptation (2024) - all composed in collaboration with Benjamin Wynn (who also records as Deru). The Avatar/Korra scores have been reissued through the Mondo and iam8bit collectible vinyl programs, with the score widely cited as one of the most distinctive television scores of the 2000s and 2010s.
Jeremy Zuckerman's score work combines film score, television score, orchestral, world music, electronic, and ambient with extensive use of pan-Asian musical traditions (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Indian) integrated with Western orchestral and electronic approaches, drawing on the Avatar series' Asian-inspired fantasy world-building.
Mondo and iam8bit pressings of the Avatar / Korra scores have been issued in multiple color variant editions and limited deluxe box sets, with collector demand.
Listeners new to Jeremy Zuckerman's work typically start with the Avatar: The Last Airbender score releases.
