Guitarist Cory Wong, frequent collaborator with Vulfpeck, has announced that he will release his sophomore solo album, The Optimist, on August 17.

The new effort features a number of guest musicians, including fellow Vulfpeck collaborator and vocalist Antwaun Stanley, Robbie Wulfsohn of Ripe, The Hornheads (former horn section for Prince’s band) and more.

Lead single and opening track “Jax,” featuring The Hornheads, recently debuted over at Relix.com.

“The Hornheads are best known as Prince’s horn section,” Wong days, “and their leader, Michael Nelson, did most of the horn arrangements for Prince. The guys are all 20-30 years older than us, but we fit right in as friends because they love seeing young musicians with such passion. Michael told me that after Prince died, it was really fun for him to find a new artist to work with on stuff like this, and it’s been a great community-building thing. We even have a musicians’ racquetball club together now.”

Pre-order The Optimist here, and learn more about the album here.