Sasaki structures distinguished by their basic Hodge numbers

In all odd dimensions at least 5 we produce examples of manifolds admitting pairs of Sasaki structures with different basic Hodge numbers. In dimension 5 we prove more precise results, for example, we show that on connected sums of copies of S(2)xS(3) the number of Sasaki structures with different basic Hodge numbers within a fixed homotopy class of almost contact structures is unbounded. All the Sasaki structures we consider are negative in the sense that the basic first Chern class is represented by a negative definite form of type (1,1). We also discuss the relation of these results to contact topology.