Atlantis Quartet©Andrea Canter

Armed with another grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC), Twin Cities guitarist/bandleader/curator Zacc Harris presents a second season of cutting edge Jazz at Studio Z in St. Paul. This year's series will run through June 2013, featuring a different artist/ensemble on the second Saturday each month at 7pm, with a free workshop/master class presented by the artist at 5pm that same day. The workshops are free, and attendees will get a $2 discount on tickets for the concert.

Brandon Wozniak©Andrea Canter

• November 10, Dave Karr Quintet (Workshop: “Developing a Bebop Vocabulary”)
• December 8, Babatunde Lea Quartet (Workshop: "The Traponga" (playing trapset and congas together)

Workshop: Collective Improvisation and Collaborative Composition

Chris Bates©Andrea Canter

About the Atlantis Quartet

Describing themselves as on a mission to “create and explore fresh and original sounds on the modern edges of the jazz idiom,” the Atlantis Quartet came together in 2006. They have since released three savvy recordings (Again Too Soon in 2007, Animal Progress in 2009, and Lines in the Sand in 2011) and are soon going back to the studio to record another. The band has also explored Coltrane’s Love Supreme, Hancock’s Head Hunters and Lead Zepplin’s House of the Holy. Despite the musicians’ busy schedules with other projects, the quartet has appeared at the Artists Quarter, Dakota, Hell’s Kitchen, and other venues throughout the area and on tour.

Zacc Harris©Andrea Canter

Saxman Brandon Wozniak previously lived and worked in New York City, toured with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and earned his BA from Indiana University under the tutelage of David Baker. Since arriving in the Twin Cities in 2006, he has performed with local bands including the Dave King Trucking Company, Monk in Motian, the Adam Meckler Quintet, the Bryan Nichols Quintet, Zacc Harris Quartet, Impulso and in varying combinations with Adam Linz, Billy Peterson, Dean Magraw, Kenny Horst, and more.

Bassist Chris Bates is familiar to Twin Cities’s audiences through his ongoing associations with the Kelly Rossum Quartet, How Birds Work, Dean Magraw’s Red Planet, Volcano Insurance, Framework, and many other cutting edge ensembles. Most recently he has stepped out front as leader of the Good Vibes Trio and his quintet, Red Five, which released its debut album (New Hope) earlier this fall. Chris studied at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and later with Anthony Cox, was an original member of the Motion Poets and a 1999 McKnight Composer Fellow.

Pete Hennig©Andrea Canter

This will be serious music at the hands of four serious musicians—who know how to have serious fun on the bandstand.

Studio Z is located on the second level of the Northwestern Building at 275 E 4th Street in St Paul’s Lowertown district, across from the Farmers Market. Tickets for the 7 pm concert at the door, $10 ($8 for those attending the free workshop at 5 pm); children 12 and under, free. More about Jazz at Studio Z at www.jazzatstudioz.org

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