 | Jeff Coffin |
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Marty Paglione Pod Cast with Tony Miceli |
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Instruments:
Soprano Saxophone
Saxophone
Tenor Saxophone
AMT products used:
AMT LS
AMT LSW - Shure
Jeff Coffin, well-traveled saxophonist, composer, and Grammy Award winning member of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, rejects all labels and categories other than "music" and "musician." In the face of his epic new CD "BLOOM", even those once-broad tags fall short of defining the close coiling of sound, philosophy, and humanity that is the core of his art.
Since 1997, Coffin has traveled the world with the Flecktones, performing with musicians of all walks. Those with whom he has shared the stage and the recording studio include such diverse artists as The Dave Matthews Band, Branford Marsalis, Mike Clark's Prescription Trio, Garth Brooks, Van Morrison, J.D. Souther, Vinnie Colaiuta, Bob Moses, Stanton Moore, George Porter Jr., John Scofield, 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 music, Indian Ragas, folk songs, Alan Lomax field recordings, jazz, or funk," he says, "the spirit and breath of the music is what I take away from listening and playing. It's what decides for me whether I like it or not."
When the Flecktones announced a year-long hiatus beginning in January of 2005, Coffin got the chance to channel these varied manifestations of musical spirit into his most ambitious, wide-ranging solo project yet. Released in February of 2005, "BLOOM" is an astonishing, genre-smashing extension of all Coffin has accomplished both as a solo artist and a Flecktone. His creative stamp on the CD doesn't stop with the music: Coffin also took all the photos for the package artwork. "It's an very personal record on many levels," he says. "This is the first time I've taken this kind of time to develop an album. It's more me than any record I've ever done."
Paradoxically, Coffin's most personal effort involves the largest group of collaborators yet assembled for one of his solo projects. "BLOOM" is officially credited to the Jeff Coffin Mu'tet, a word he created to describe his ever-shifting cadre of co-conspirators. "The group name comes from the word "mutation," Coffin explains. "It implies a continual possibility of growth: music changes and is influenced by the things around us." With personnel varying enormously from track to track, Coffin's multiple woodwinds are matched by everything from seasoned Nashville session veterans to electro-mavericks, from all of the Flecktones to the W.O. Smith Community Music School's Children's Choir. While Coffin's technical facility on his instruments leads him to tackle the most imposing of situations and structures, his vision of music as a continuously fluid, organic medium allows him to weave seemingly disparate strands together into performances of indescribable singularity and transcendence.
With "BLOOM", Coffin explores the concept of universal musical spirit that is at the heart of his musical journey. "I'm finding common ground between a wide range of music," he reflects. "It has to do with the connected nature of everything around me, which becomes clearer to me everyday." Coffin's music, an astonishingly successful intersection of genres, styles, and collaborators, is the most convincing proof of his belief in an intangible musical spirit unburdened by any specific borders.
Website:
www.jeffcoffin.com
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