In addition to providing artwork and illustrations for various European jazz labels and magazines Brys has also indirectly influenced the development of jazz in his homeland. This was largely through his collaboration with various musicians associated with other bands referred to elsewhere on this website in their jazz related (ad)ventures. Central to these and perhaps the most active has been the Huw Mingus Quantet. As the name implies they are directly linked to both Brys and Huw Chi Minh and associated with the Cymmer Rouge. Their only known album to date is titled ‘Huwbism’

Involving several members of the Deadmans Danceband they largely apply their ethos of ‘never play it the same way once’ and the album does scant justice to the reported anarchy of their live performances. Together with various Welsh based jazz musicians this loose cooperative has performed only sporadically as The Huw Mingus Quantet to very mixed reviews. The jazz establishment has, in the main, been utterly appalled and one critic described them as being ‘like the Mothers of Invention with no taste’. Those responsible for that particular performance took it as a compliment.

The lack of enthusiasm of the Welsh jazz establishment has not, in the main, been as evident on the mainland. Brys has arranged (and probably sponsored) occasional performances of the Quantet in France and the Low Countries where they have had more success. At venues such as Amsterdams Bimhuis and Les Sept Lezards in Paris where real improvisation is more highly valued they are said to have gone down a storm. This must be qualified by the suggestion that at such venues the audience would inevitably hold a large proportion of Brys’ invitees and supporters of the Cymmer Rouge. If so it is also probable that the audience would be very well fuelled by whatever recreational compounds took their fancy.

In the summer of 2006 the Quantet followed their fellow travellers in the Deadmans Danceband in testing new material on the internet. Thiswas however a relative failure and the site at http://www.myspace.com/thehuwmingusquantet has subsequently been taken over by the Tamla Butetown label, a commercial subsidiary of the Foundation