His album Magic Spirit Quartet, with young Scandinavian musicians and produced by the jazz label ACT Music in 2020, was a considerable success, with appreciations in the international press, such as in the BBC Musical Magazine 7 and the American Downbeat magazine, where the disc was selected as Editor's choice of February 2020In his youth, Bekkas played banjo in Moroccan groups in the style of Nass El Ghiwane.

(Among others, with Louis Sclavis, Archie Shepp, Randy Weston, Klaus Doldinger, Joachim Kühn, Peter Brötzmann or Hamid Drake).

In 2006, Bekkas joined a jazz fusion trio with Joachim Kühn and Ramón López, that released its fifth album on ACT Music in August 2013.

[10] Bekkas' song Daymallah is the opening track on the album Desert Blues 2, which was voted the Best Compilation of 2002 by leading music journalists and producers for fRoots magazine.

In 2010, Bekkas was awarded the Al Farabi Prize by the Comité National de la Musique in Morocco for his contribution to Moroccan music.