The live version of drummer Dylan Howe’s imaginative tribute to David Bowie’s 1970s Berlin trilogy was cooler than the recent recording, but in evoking the album’s mix of cold-war melancholia and supple jazz sensuality in their own ways, a multi-talented quintet that included saxophonist Andy Sheppard delivered just as rich a tribute to both Bowie and Howe.

As if it were a rock gig, the group re-ran the album’s tracks straight through, but the themes and sophisticated arrangements hummed with fascinating mysteries, and the playing was immaculate.

Sheppard’s delicate tenor-sax sound quivered through Steve Lodder’s drifting synth-moods on the title track, and the explicit jazziness of Ross Stanley’s fluid piano lines was periodically interrogated by scything electronic sweeps. The tone-sensitive Howe mixed dark percussion overtures with unfussily propulsive accompaniment, and his softly booming intro to Weeping Wall ushered in the low and throaty sax theme.

Art Decade suggested what Bowie might have sounded like if he’d been a cool school jazz star of the 1950s, and a Coltrane-steeped version of Warszawa blazed with startling solos – of flying runs from Sheppard’s tenor and McCoy Tyner-like up-tempo drama from Stanley. A segued finale on Neuköln – Day and the richly synth-textured Moss Garden brought a standing reception for a heartfelt venture Howe has every right to be proud of.

• At Dean Clough, Halifax, 1 October, and touring to 18 October.