Seungmin Jung (정승민) is a double bassist and composer from Seoul, South Korea, who studied at the Manhattan School of Music and is based in New York. He has led one album so far, Anecdotes, a sextet record released on February 28, 2025 on his own label, Seungmin Jung Music. Three outlets reviewed it in the spring of 2025: JazzTrail, All About Jazz and Jazz Journal. The Hangul spelling comes from a Korean interview with the pianist Bomin Kim, who played on the album and asks readers to listen to 'Anecdotes' by the bassist 정승민; his releases and recital programs use the Latin spelling Seungmin Jung, which is the form used here.

Little is published about his life, and what exists comes mostly from his own materials. A printed program for his graduate recital at the Manhattan School of Music gives his birth year as 1996, and his biography on All About Jazz repeats it; no source gives a day or a birthplace. The 2024 MSM commencement program names Seoul as his hometown, and the Sandy Brown Jazz feature and his Bandcamp biography both call him a bassist from Seoul.

According to his All About Jazz biography, he began on electric bass at 17 and later bought a double bass on a whim, which turned into his main instrument. That biography names the bassist Jinkyo Park as a teacher in Seoul, and his Bandcamp page lists Park among his teachers along with Buster Williams, Rogerio Boccato and John Benitez. The MSM commencement program lists a bachelor's degree from Sang-Myung University (Sangmyung University) in Seoul, so his undergraduate years were in Korea. The same biography lists Korean venues he has played: Diva Janus, VINGA, Barticán, Boogie Boogie, Sound Dog, Naeum Art Hall, Club Misig, the Giwon Art Museum's Versi and the Sojeon Museum. It also says he won second prize at a competition named for Hyunsik Kim. None of these appearances is dated in the sources found.

He moved to New York for graduate study. The program for his recital of March 29, 2024 in the Charles Myers Recital Hall describes him as a candidate for the Master of Music degree and as a student of Buster Williams, John Benitez and Jeremy Manasia, and the 2024 commencement program lists him among the Jazz Arts master's candidates. His All About Jazz biography adds lessons with Ingrid Jensen, ensemble classes with Matt Holeman, Scott Wendholt, Jeremy Manasia and Kris Rosenberg, and masterclasses with Louis Hayes, Brian Blade, John Cowherd, Michael Mayo and Harish Raghavan. It also mentions a playing date at Dizzy's Club in New York.

His March 2024 recital used a quintet of Bomin Kim on piano, Tal Kalman on tenor saxophone, Daphnis Moglia on trumpet and Felix Ambach on drums with Jung on bass, the same four players who later recorded with him. The program lists his own pieces "Blue", "From the Middle of the Light" and "3 Black Beans and a Boy", all three of which appear on Anecdotes, alongside Ron Carter's "R. J.", Burton Lane's "Old Devil Moon" and Wayne Shorter's "To Sail Beyond the Sunset". On July 13, 2024 he led a quartet with Kalman, Kim and Ambach for a jazz night at Kato Sake Works, whose event page introduces him as a bassist and bandleader.

Anecdotes followed on February 28, 2025. He adds guitarist Johannes Ravn to the quartet for the six pieces, and the liner note on his Bandcamp page says the players come from several countries and that none of them is originally from the United States. Reviewers placed it in unhurried, chamber-like post-bop. His liner note ties the pieces to specific moments: a Japanese film, a video-game series, the death of his pet Maltese, a trip to Acadia National Park in Maine with his parents after his graduation, and the fireflies he sees in New York between summer and fall.

He continues to work as a sideman in New York. On April 4, 2026 he played bass at the Manhattan School of Music senior recital of the pianist Yeji Jung, in a rhythm section with the drummer Thomas Boisneau and, on some pieces, the trumpeter Justin Seowon Kwak.

No interview about his musical influences was found beyond his own liner note, so this section sticks to that note and to what reviewers heard.

He names Wayne Shorter as one of his favorite composers. He says he has been absorbed in Shorter's work since 2023 and that the documentary Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity shaped "From the Middle of Light", a piece about light and the cycle of life. His other stated sources are not musical: the Japanese film Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue for "Blue", the Fallout series for "Wasteland", his dog for "Three Black Beans and a Boy", the Acadia trip and fireflies in New York.

JazzTrail's reviewer files the album under post-bop and contemporary jazz and hears compositions with a personal, melancholy warmth, more concerned with honest expression than technical showmanship. All About Jazz calls it introspective and cerebral in an approachable way, with a chamber music feel, mostly dark and often labyrinthine writing and generous room for solos. Jazz Journal hears an unrushed, airy record with a late-night mood in which each instrument has space, suggests the influence of Charles Mingus on "Three Black Beans and a Boy", and says it sounds carefully composed and rewritten yet still balances structure with freedom.