Neil Yates - Trumpet/Flugelhorn
Tom Remon - Guitar
James Owston - Double Bass
Jim Bashford - Drums

Neil Yates is a Multi-instrumentalist composer, and arranger who started working most notably for the BBC Big Band, Johnny Dankworth Orchestra, Gary Crosby's Nu Troop and US3, The Brand New Heavies, Supergrass, Black Grape, Lighthouse Family, Alison Moyet, Will Young, Raw Stylus, Suggs, Matt Bianco and Robbie Williams.  Neil recorded his award-winning first solo jazz album “New Origins” and his new album “Five Countries”, released on Edition Records in November 2011. He also arranges for traditional music legends such as Michael McGoldrick and Kate Rusby. Neil was the Artistic Director of the Llandudno Jazz festival from 2015 until 2020.

Tom Remon is an aspiring young guitarist on the London Jazz scene. He is an alumnus of the Jazz Warriors development programme and has already played with some of the era’s most esteemed Jazz musicians, including David Lyttle, Jim Mullen, Steve Williamson, and Jonathan Gee. Tom is a Lunaria Records recording artist and already has two records under his own name as well as performing on many others as a sideman.

Jim Bashford is a drummer and composer who resides in Birmingham UK. He is one of the most in-demand drummers on the UK Jazz Scene. He is a faculty member at the Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Course, a course on which he studied back in 2004. Jim is currently a sideman for numerous projects across the UK and leads his own quartet consisting of Hilmar Jensson, Tim Harries, and Robin Fincker.

James Owston is a bass player from the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. His first experiences of jazz came on electric bass, playing with his friends at school and in his county youth jazz orchestra. In 2015, James took up the double bass and joined the jazz course at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire studying with Arnie Somogyi and Mark Hodgson.​ James is an incredibly in demand bassist, who plays all over the UK and plays with the Clark Tracey Quintet, Xhosa Cole, and Paul Dunmall, James was a finalist for the 2018 BBC Young Musicians Jazz award.