Background
Feza was born in Queenstown, South Africa, in 1945.
Feza was born in Queenstown, South Africa, in 1945.
Born to a family of musicians with a bigger brother, Sandi Feza, who taught him how to play the trampet in the dusty street of Mlungisi township in Queenstown. As a trumpeter, his influences included hard bopper Clifford Brown and free jazz pioneer Don Cherry. After The Blue Notes splintered in the late 1960s, he played with British rock musician Robert Wyatt, progressive rock band Henry Cow, and most extensively with fellow ex-Blue Notes musicians Johnny Dyani, Chris McGregor and Dudu Pukwana.
He died in London in December 1975 of untreated pneumonia.
A member of The Blue Notes, he left South Africa in 1964 and settled in Europe, living in London and Copenhagen. In the early 1970s, Feza was also member of the afro-rock band Assagai.