Bio:
Jeff Coffin is a globally recognized saxophonist, composer, educator, and is a member of the legendary U.S. rock group, Dave Matthews Band. You may also know him from his 14 years, and 3 Grammy Awards, with the genre-defying Bela Fleck & the Flecktones. Jeff fronts numerous groups when not touring with DMB and has released 15+ solo CD's on Ear Up Records.
Coffin is known for his musical passion, his melodically driven compositions, his deep involvement with music education, and his continued dedication to the improvisational musical art form some call Jazz.
He is one of the top, in demand, saxophonists in the world as well as a first call studio musician in Nashville, Tennessee, where he has lived since 1991.
Jeff has released over 15 solo recordings, is both a Yamaha & D'Addario Performing Artist & Clinician, teaches improvisation at the prestigious Vanderbilt University, authored four books, produces & engineers, runs his own awesome record label, Ear Up Records.
In 2020, Jeff began a streaming concert series during the global shutdown to benefit his fellow Nashville musicians from his studio called iTA Studio Streams, where all the proceeds go to local out of work musicians and their families.
Contact Information
Management/Booking:
FOR ALL CLINIC & EDUCATIONAL INQUIRIES:
SOUND ARTIST SUPPORT
Brian Horner [email protected]
www.soundartistsupport.com
(Phone) 1.615.364.7656
BOOKING INQUIRIES
HEAD BOOKING
Eric Hanson [email protected]
www.headbooking.org
(Phone) 1.415.308.7864
Quotes, Notes & Etc.
"Words cannot even begin to say how thankful and appreciative the students and I are for your time last night in the Zoom meeting. It was very engaging and super informative. The students were glowing after the meeting. I know you didn't have to do that and we are very appreciative of it."
- James Hegedus, Livingston High School
Jeff Coffin’s personality, passion and incredible music provided an amazing learning moment for our students that they will never forget! Jeff is a motivating presenter that engages students and shares a wide variety of musical styles and topics."
- Brian Cyr, Francis T. Maloney High School
"Jeff is a consummate professional, a joyous force and a superior music mind, educator and advocate. He visited with my Arts Admin class this past week and his passion, intelligence and grasp of all things essential to music making is always impressive to students and faculty alike. I am always appreciative of what Jeff does for our community of musicians. Thank you Jeff!"
- Mitchell Korn, Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University
My Instruction
Lessons/Workshops:
Hi All, I hope everyone is doing well. Many of you know my love for all things music & education, and since I will be home for the foreseeable future, I have decided to take on some private students.
I am offering 3 lesson & 6 lesson packages. If you’re interested please email [email protected] for pricing, info, and scheduling. These will be done over ZOOM or SKYPE and will be catered to each particular student with an emphasis on improvisation and fundamentals.
As well, I will be offering online clinics and meeting with students and directors periodically. If you’re interested in this, again, please email [email protected] - thanks to you all. wishing you my best. peace, jc
The Recôncavo is an almost invisible center-of-gravity. Circumscribing the Bay of All Saints, this region was landing for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. Not unrelated, it is also birthplace of some of the most physically & spiritually uplifting music ever made. —Sparrow
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay. They paid.
MATRIX MUSICAL
The Matrix was built below among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. (that's me left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) ... The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).