[1] Best known for founding and leading Edmund Welles, the only composing bass clarinet quartet in the world[citation needed], he now mainly plays and composes for the shakuhachi flute having retired from bass clarinet in 2015[2]

He received his shakuhachi master teaching’s license (Shihan)[3] from Grand Master Michael Chikuzen Gould[4] in 2013.

[5] He played on stage during Sony's E3 2018 conference, prior to the reveal of Ghost of Tsushima, a samurai-based video game.

Boots mostly plays taimu shakuhachi, which are long, wide-bore flutes noted for their deep tones.

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