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Discography/Career Highlights

Solo Albums

Asambe (1996)

Debut solo album. A landmark recording blending Zulu musical idioms with contemporary jazz. Features tracks like Shonilanga (later reworked live).

Getting to Heaven Alive (2006)

South African Music Awards (SAMA) Winner 2007. Best Instrumental Jazz Album. Praised for its spiritual, uplifting compositions.

Identity

FIrst released in 2016. Re-released in 2025. Explores identity, memory, and contemporary South African jazz.

Key Performance Collaborations & Recordings

1985 - 1989

Plays guitar in the legendary African Jazz Pioneers, renowned for their infectious big band style of township jazz. 

1990s

Live collaborations and session recordings with Abdullah Ibrahim, Winston Mankunku Ngozi, and others.

2000s

Collaborations with legendary artists (e.g., Sibongile Khumalo, Themba Mkhize, Simphiwe Dana) Appeared as guitarist/arranger on various projects. 

Film & Theatre Scores

Sophiatown (2003)

Sophiatown was famous for jazz and gangsters heavily influenced by American films who spoke a slang called Tsotsitaal. This era is revisited by some of the artists who lived there and they call back the past in two concerts.

Drum (2004)

Contributed compositions and music direction to Zola Maseko's award-winning film about journalist Henry Nxumalo and the motley crew of black journalists who vividly captured 1950s township life. 

The Suitcase (2006)

Provided original compositions for James Ncobo's award-winning theatrical adaptation of Ezekiel Mphahlele's classic 1950s-era short story.

Archival / Live Recordings

Late 1980s

Thayima - early fusion project, laying groundwork for Khoza’s solo direction. No known official recording release, but archival tapes may exist.

1990s - Present

Live performances at North Sea Jazz Festival, Durban Playhouse, Cape Town International Jazz Festival, and various European venues. Some performances were broadcast but not officially released.

1996 & 2002

Bheki Khoza Quartet performed at PANAFEST in Ghana and also in Japan. 

Noteworthy Collaborative Project - Bambata

1906 (2000)

The first album by South African music project Bambata. The name of the album refers to the Zulu rebellion against the English in the Colony of Natal (modern Kwazulu-Natal) in 1906, led by Chief Bambatha kaMancinza (ca. 1860–1906?). The Zulu rebelled against a poll tax introduced by the English.

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