JEFF COFFIN Saxophone - Dave Matthews Band Compilation

James Ross @ Jeff Coffin & Victor Wooten

Discography

Jeff Coffin Mu'tet

· Go-Round - (2001)
· Bloom - (2005)
· Mutopia - (2008)

Solo

· Commonality - (1999)

The Jeff Coffin Ensemble

· Outside the Lines - (1997)

With Jeff Babko & Vinnie Colaiuta

· Mondo Trio - (2007)

With Béla Fleck and the Flecktones

· Left of Cool - (1998)
· Greatest Hits of the 20th Century - (1999)
· Outbound - (2000) - (2001 Grammy winner)
· Live at the Quick (2002) - (CD & DVD)
· Little Worlds - (2003)
· The Hidden Land - (2006) - (2006 Grammy winner)
· Jingle All the Way - (2008) - (2009 Grammy winner)

With the Dave Matthews Band

· Live at Mile High Music Festival - (2008)
· Live Trax 2008 - (2008)
· Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King - (2009)

With Umphrey's McGee

· Mantis - (2009)

Jeff Coffin

Jeff Coffin (born August 5, 1965) is a Grammy Award-winning American jazz musician best known as the current saxophonist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones and Dave Matthews Band. In addition to the saxophone, he plays clarinet and flute. After attending the University of New Hampshire and the University of North Texas, Coffin entered the Nashville music scene in 1991. He studied under Joe Lovano, under a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

He has been a member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since March 1997, and has performed on every Flecktones album since and including Left of Cool. Coffin has released several albums independent from the Flecktones, most notably the February 2005 release Bloom, recorded during the Flecktones year-long hiatus. He is well known for playing two saxophones (alto and tenor) at the same time, a technique popularized by Roland Kirk. He recently played clarinet for The Waifs new album Sun Dirt Water.

On July 1, 2008, Coffin joined Dave Matthews Band for their 2008 summer tour after saxophonist LeRoi Moore was injured in an ATV accident. Moore died from his injuries on August 19, 2008, to the shock of his bandmates. On December 27, 2008 Coffin confirmed via his website that he would continue his role as saxophonist for the band in future tours and projects.

Coffin has also played on hundreds of studio recordings, and has performed around the world including a 2007 performance at the esteemed Carnegie Hall with the Flecktones. He remains in high demand as a session musician, and Coffin has presented clinics from Farmington, Maine to Perth, Australia and is also an internationally acclaimed Yamaha and Vandoren Performing Artist and clinician since 2000.