Keith Waithe’s musical style explores a fusion of jazz, classical, African, Caribbean, Asian and Western influences.

He developed a technique he calls “vocal gymnastics”, in which he uses the voice to reproduce percussive sounds.

Music critic Kevin Le Gendre notes that Waithe “has single-mindedly pursued his own artistic agenda, developing a songbook that draws heavily on African-Caribbean and Asian folk traditions as well as jazz ingenuity in a manner not dissimilar to a large number of his forebears, of which Yusef Lateef is perhaps the most direct reference”.