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Current touring member of Dave Matthews Band
Jeff Coffin is a three time GRAMMY award winner & member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.

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ABOUT JEFF COFFIN

JEFF COFFIN
3x Grammy Award Winning Saxophonist & Composer 

Jeff Coffin is a world-traveled, internationally recognized saxophonist, composer and educator. He is a 3x Grammy Award winning member of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones and has been playing with them since 1997. In July 2008, Jeff began touring with Dave Matthews Band, and officially joined the group in 2009 following the death of founding member LeRoi Moore.

 

Coffin rejects all labels and categories other than "music" and "musician" when asking how to describe his playing, writing and himself. Coffin, who lives in Nashville, TN, has traveled the world performing with musicians of all walks since graduating with a music education degree from the University of North Texas in 1990. Education has always been part of the core that makes up what Jeff shares with others.

 

Some of the artists Coffin has shared the stage and the recording studio include a “who’s who” of contemporary musicians such as Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Dave Matthews Band, Branford Marsalis, Bob Mintzer, DJ Logic, New Orleans Social Club, Maceo Parker, McCoy Tyner, Baaba Maal, Phish, Mike Clark's Prescription Trio, Galactic, Kirk Whalum, Widespread Panic, Chris Thile, Willie Nelson, Chester Thompson, Garth Brooks, Phish, Van Morrison, J.D. Souther, Vinnie Colaiuta, The Dixie Chicks, Bob Moses, Stanton Moore, Brooks and Dunn, Tuvan Throat Singers - the Alash Ensemble & Konger Ol Ondar, George Porter Jr., Umphrey's McGee, Del McCoury, John Scofield, Yonder Mountain String Band, Marc Broussard, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Wailers and many, many others.

 

Along the way, Coffin has absorbed an astounding range of influences. "Whether it be New Orleans Second Line, African, Indian Ragas, folk songs, Gypsy music, Alan Lomax field recordings, jazz, or funk," he says, "the spirit and breath of the music is what I take away from the listening and playing. It's what decides for me if I like it or not."

 

Jeff is also an in demand Yamaha and Vandoren Performing Artist and, since 2005, has presented well over 150 clinics from Farmington, Maine to Perth, Australia to students of all ages with raving reviews. As well, some of his compositions are available as big band arrangements through the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) Press and one of his tunes was nominated for a Grammy Award (Zona Mona/Best Pop Instrumental Composition - Bela Fleck & the Flecktones).


Coffin is also an avid photographer and he sees photographic composition and musical composition and improvisation as going hand in hand.

www.jeffcoffin.com ~ www.jeffcoffinphotography.com