Passion for Collaboration: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Jeff Coffin on his zeal for music, teaching and harmony through it all [Video]

There are magical moments in music. Moments when beats, rhythms and souls connect. Moments when artists give and adoring audiences receive. Jeff Coffin calls them “peak esthetic, almost holy moments where everything is at once connected.”

Coffin, 2024 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with Dave Matthews Band, Grammy winner, composer and Vanderbilt jazz saxophone instructor, wants to pull you into a place where tunes from his saxophone become conduits to these authentic emotions.

“I want you to feel what we’re feeling on stage, and I want to feel what you’re feeling as an audience member, where there’s no disconnect and we are breathing and moving together,” he said. “It’s rare and it’s everything.”

Coffin has been bringing these magical moments to life with Dave Matthews Band since 2008. Before that he spent 13 years jamming with jazz fusion ensemble Béla Fleck and the …