Atlas Maior @ El Hueso - Fin de Semana Al Frontera

Name: Atlas Maior @ El Hueso - Fin de Semana Al Frontera
Start: 2025-04-04T21:30:00-05:00
Location: 837 E Elizabeth St, Ste D, Brownsville, TX

Schedule

Fri, 04 Apr, 2025 at 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

837 E Elizabeth St, Ste D, Brownsville, TX | Brownsville, TX

Atlas Maior creates original music that combines elements of Progressive Jazz, Middle Eastern, Latin American, and Indian music traditions. Band members Joshua Thomson (alto saxophone, flutes), Gary Parsons (drums + percussion), and Josh Peters (oud, lavta), create a unique sound that balances intimate moments of sincerity with powerful melodies and incendiary rhythmic passages, bolstered by a top-notch rhythm section, Atlas Maior writes original melodies exploring maqamat (Middle Eastern modal system) and harmonic progressions found in American jazz. The group composes with a wide variety of rhythms and incorporates traditional instruments including the Indian tablas, Middle Eastern dumbek, & Peruvian cajón.
““combines the fire and excitement of eastern musical culture with probing, Coltrane-like solos from Joshua Thomson on sax.”” - John Adcock - review of Riptide
— The Jazz Journal
“"You've never heard anything like this before"” ” - Michael Toland - review of Riptide
— The Austin Chronicle