For more than a decade, saxophonist Jeff Coffin performed as a member of the jazz/grass supergroup Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. In 2008, he joined Dave Matthews.
Despite working with such marquee artists, Coffin said he feels most free to express himself when fronting his jazz/fusion side project, the Mu’tet.
“I get to explore a lot of music more the way I hear it,” he said. “As a composer, when you’re writing, it’s like, ‘This is how I hear music.’ If we do it collectively, we can then say, ‘This is how we hear music.’
“I think we’re rolling in that direction where this group has a sound that is how we hear music together.”
Coffin moved to Nashville in the early ’90s from his native Texas. The group that would eventually become the Mu’tet grew out of an earlier Music City collective, The Vibration Arts Ensemble.