Mutopia 

TRACKLIST:

01) TAG (3:29)
02) AL'S GREENS (7:25)
03) BUBBLE UP (5:26)
04) ONE IN, ONE OUT (6.06)
05) TURIYA (10.14)
06) L'ESPERANCE (7:49)
07) SWEET MAGNOLIAS (9:19)
08) MOVE YOUR RUG (7:18)
09) EMMA YA (HIDDEN TRACK)

PERSONNEL:

Jeff Coffin - saxes, flutes, etc...

Roy "Futureman" Wooten - drum set

Felix Pastorius - electric bass

Kofi Burbridge - piano, B3, keys, flute

With Special Guests: Chris Walters, Bela Fleck, Victor Wooten, Doug Belote, Alana Rocklin, Pat Bergeson, R. Scott. Bryan, Roy Agee, Rod McGaha, Barry Green, and Black Cat Sylvester.

RECORDING INFO:

Produced by Jeff Coffin

Recorded by Robert Battaglia at Darkhorse Recording, Franklin, TN 

Recorded on December 17 & 18, 2006

Additional engineering by Jeff Coffin at Huckleberry Row, Nashville, TN

Mixed by Richard Aspinwall at Aspin Studios, Miama, FL

Assisted by Brandon Giostra

Mastered by Hank Williams at Mastermix, Nashville, TN

Photography by Jeff Coffin

Package design by Robert Hakalski at Visual Machinery

Composition and arrangements on tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, & 9 by Jeff Coffin - Otani Music (BMI)

Track 1. Tag - (Jeff Coffin/Bill Fanning) Otani Music (BMI) / Fanman Music (BMI)

Track 3. Bubble Up - (Jeff Coffin/Alana Rocklin) Otani Music (BMI) / Newpolyphony (ASCAP)

Track 6. L'Esperance - (Jeff Coffin/Felix Pastorius) Otani Music (BMI) / fxpastorius (ASCAP)

© 2008 Otani Music/BMI 

ALBUM NOTES:

A member of roots-fusion mavericks Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, GRAMMY-award winning saxophonist Jeff Coffin is one of the world's most visible hornmen. As his insightful yet incendiary playing with the Flecktones demonstrates, Coffin possesses the rare ability to fuse the improvisational intensity of modern jazz with a wide range of influences.

Aided by an all-star cast of jazz, jam, bluegrass, and funk musicians, Jeff Coffin explores an impressive variety of textures and styles, gracing each with his peerless energy, musicianship, and technique. On Mutopia, Coffin presents the most complete picture yet of his eclectic musical vision. Two steps beyond an otherworldly fusion of Ornette Coleman, The Meters, and Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Mutopia puts Jeff Coffin at the forefront of a new generation of improvising musicians for whom boundaries are meaningless and everyone is invited to the party.