Basil Breakey is best known for his photographs of the twilight years of the dynamic jazz subculture that flourished in South Africa, and particularly in Johannesburg, until the early 1960s, when it was finally crushed by the apartheid state.
Jazz band playing a live gig in Strandfontein, Cape Town, South Africa. Band made up of Abdullah Ibrahim (left) on cello, with Ray Nollie (centre) also on cello, Johnny Gertze on upright bass, and Basil Coetzee on flute.