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: Abdullah Ibrahim and Ray Nollie playing a live concert, Strandfontein, Cape Town, South Africa

: Abdullah Ibrahim playing the cello in Strandfontein, Cape Town, South Africa

: Abdullah Ibrahim practicing on the piano, Cape Town, South Africa

: Abdullah Ibrahim, Ray Nollie, Johnny Gertze and Basil Coetzee playing as part of a jazz band, Cape Town, South Africa

: Abigail Kubeka, Swaziland Independence celebrations, Mbabane, Swaziland

: Allen Kwela playing guitar at Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa

: Backdrop at jazz festival, Cape Town, South Africa

: Barney Rachabane (left) and Dennis Mphale (right), Johannesburg, South Africa

: Basil Coetzee and Abdullah Ibrahim practicing before a live performance, Cape Town, South Africa

: Basil Coetzee and Abdullah Ibrahim surveying an empty venue during a soundcheck, Cape Town, South Africa

: Basil Coetzee with his saxophone, Cape Town, South Africa

: Bassist, Johnny Dyani, Dorkay House, Johannesburg, South Africa

: Chris McGregor conducting the Castle Lager Big Band, Johannesburg, South Africa

: Chris McGregor conducting the Castle Lager Big Band, Johannesburg, South Africa

: Chris McGregor conducting the Castle Lager Big Band, Johannesburg, South Africa

: Chris McGregor sleeping on floor, Joubert Park, Johannesburg, South Africa

: Chris McGregor, jazz pianist, Johannesburg, South Africa

: Christopher 'Columbus' Ngcukana playing live at Hartleyvale Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa

: Christopher 'Columbus' Ngcukana playing the saxophone live, Cape Town, South Africa

: Drummer performing live, Cape Town, South Africa

: Dudu Pukwana, Kippie Moeketsi, Nick Moyake, Dennis Mphale playing a jazz composition, Johannesburg, South Africa

: Duku Makasi, jazz saxophonist, playing live in Langa, Cape Town, South Africa

: Early Mabuza, veteran drummer, recording with the Castle Lager Big Band, Johannesburg, South Africa

: Guest artist at a Moholo concert, Cape Town, South Africa

: Jazz band members, Mongezi Feza, Louis Moholo, Dudu Pukwana and Sammy Maritz, Johannesburg, South Africa

: Jazz musician, Robert Sithole, performing live, Cape Town, South Africa

: Jazz musicians, Blythe Mbityana with Dalton Khanyile, Johannesburg, South Africa

: Jazz musicians, Mongezi Feza and Dudu Pukwana, Johannesburg, South Africa

: Jazz musicians, Winston 'Mankunku' Ngozi, Phil Schilder and Chris Schilder, Mbabane, Swaziland

: Jazz musicians, Winston Mankunku and Phil Schilder, at the Swaziland Independence celebrations, Mbabane

: Jazz saxophonist playing live, South Africa

: Kippie Morolong Moeketsi, jazz musician, smoking, Johannesburg, South Africa

: Kippie Morolong Moeketsi, looking through window, Johannesburg, South Africa

: Louis Maholo live in concert, Cape Town, South Africa

: Louis Moholo playing the drums, Cape Town, South Africa

: Louis Moholo playing the drums, Cape Town, South Africa

: Louis Tebogo Moholo and Christopher 'Columbus' Ngcukana playing live at Hartleyvale Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa

: Man blowing a horn, sitting next to a woman

: Martin Kijima playing live in concert, Cape Town, South Africa

: Molombo performing live, Mbabane, Swaziland

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Title: Basil Breakey
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Description: 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.
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