Saxophone Artist Jeff Coffin

Published: July 2, 2006, midnight

b'The past 18 months have been extremely busy for Jeff Coffin-musician, composer, and artist. In early 2005, Coffin released an epic new album, "Bloom" as leader of the Mu\'tet, a shifting group of world-class musicians. Coffin\'s main gig is as saxophonist with the Grammy-award-winning Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, an eclectic jazz fusion acoustic group. During a recent concert stop at Los Angeles\' Wiltern Theatre, Coffin spoke candidly with Yamaha\'s Kurt Witt about his musical transformations-including his current tour, recent albums, inspirations, educational clinic work and Yamaha saxophones.'