Summary
Saxophonist Jeff Coffin has played with countless bands -- from a 13-year stint with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones to sessions with Phish and Umphrey's McGee. He also has his own side project, the Mu'Tet, an eclectic, groovy band combining jazz, funk, African music and many other genres.
But Coffin, 46, is also a tireless music educator, holding sax workshops in schools around the world. Coffin held one such workshop at Nokomis Regional High School in Newport more than 10 years ago, and worked with a young Andrew Clifford, then a promising teenage jazz drummer and now president of Main Street Music Studios in Bangor. Coffin spent part of his childhood in Dexter and worked with Clifford's father, Jack, the music teacher at Nokomis, so central Maine was -- and still is -- a second home. Andrew Clifford remembers being hugely influenced by that workshop.See the full content of this document
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Concert in Newport
"Jeff was really inspiring to me, when I was young," said Clifford. "I remember he made a big list for me of all these jazz greats, and I went out and bought them all. I still ha...
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