Jazz trivia nuts may genuflect at the fact that Matt Wates appeared on Jamie Cullum’s Pointless Nostalgia, the crooner’s second album that first started the Cullum bandwagon rolling back in the early-noughties.

Wates’ sextet has been around a lot longer, however, the alto saxophonist’s Cullum colleague trumpeter Martin Shaw along with his sextet’s tenor saxophonist Steve Main, pianist Leon Greening, Acoustic Triangle bassist Malcolm Creese, and Huddersfield-born ex-Ray Gelato drummer Matt Home all seen in the video above and appearing on Wates’ new album Yemanja to be released in early-February 2015 by Creese’s label Audio-B.

The London-born Wates studied at Berklee in Boston going on to graduate in 1988 quickly notching up appearances along the way with a wide range of modern-mainstream luminaries including cult saxists Don Weller and Bobby Wellins, recording, besides his own projects, with Roadside Picnic, Itchy Fingers, and Sax Appeal among a string of leading bands. Wates’ sextet has nine albums out already during its 25-year lifespan with a style journeying each time ever more deeply into the musical universe of the Jazz Messengers.