Atlantis Quartet emerged as a leading voice in the Twin Cities’ burgeoning modern jazz scene after forming in 2006. Featuring four of Minnesota’s most compelling jazz artists—saxophonist Brandon Wozniak, guitarist Zacc Harris, bassist Chris Bates, and drummer Pete Hennig—the group was initially conceived as a weekly composing collective, created to workshop ideas and explore fresh, original sounds both within and at the edges of the jazz idiom. It quickly became clear that the quartet had developed a distinctive group voice, and their balance of complexity and accessibility has resonated with a wide spectrum of listeners ever since.

Atlantis Quartet has released six albums to date: Again, Too Soon (2007), Animal Progress (2009), Lines in the Sand (2011), Expansion (Shifting Paradigm, 2013), Hello Human (Shifting Paradigm, 2018), and most recently Live at Berlin (Shifting Paradigm, 2025). The latest release has drawn significant international acclaim. All About Jazz praised the album as “crackling with raw energy and sly sophistication,” while JazzWise Magazine wrote, “Blending post-bop intellect with jazz-rock energy, this is a band rediscovering its bold, restless edge together.”

The quartet headlined the opening night of the 2014 Twin Cities Jazz Festival and performed on the main stage at the Iowa City Jazz Festival that same summer. They have toured extensively throughout the Midwest and East Coast and were named Best Jazz Artist by the Star Tribune in 2012 and by City Pages in 2011. The latter wrote, “No jazz band in the Twin Cities is on the prowl both creatively and in gaining national recognition quite like the Atlantis Quartet… Each player’s ideas and strengths seem to infiltrate the others’ consciousness, so the music evolves as a constantly shifting mosaic of textures, rhythmic patterns, and tonal colors… This is a band without limits.” In 2015, Atlantis Quartet received a McKnight Fellowship for Performing Artists. 

The latest album, recorded live at the opening week of the Twin Cities’ newest jazz venue, Berlin, captures the band in a freewheeling, exploratory mode, emphasizing more open-ended compositions and spontaneous interaction as the group continues to push its collective sound forward.