Together with Robbie Jansen they created the unique brass sound of the group Pacific Express inspiring many younger cape jazz musicians in Cape Town.
Basil Rathbone | Basil II | Toni Basil | J. M. Coetzee | Basil of Caesarea | Basil I | Basil | Basil Fawlty | Basil Dearden | Basil Davidson | Basil Sydney | Basil Pao | basil | Basil Wolverton | Basil Spence | Basil Hood | Basil Hayward | Basil Hall | Basil Brush | Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough | Saint Basil's Cathedral | Gerrie Coetzee | Basil Moreau | Basil Hume | Basil D'Oliveira | Basil Crockett | St. Basil | Dirk Coetzee | Basil Wright | Basil Thomson |
Its music spans from the serious-minded jazz of Abdullah Ibrahim and Basil Coetzee and their anthem 'Mannenberg' (named after a Cape Flats township), to the bubbly pop hits of Brenda Fassie; and continues in a new hip-hop movement.