Great musicianship is so often achieved via the privilege of the wealthy (private lessons / education ) or an easy grasp hand me down (musician parent / jazz dad etc ) or simply via normal hard working parents who provide a firm family foundation / encouragement via lessons & school - still very much, if mostly an unaware privilege for many.

Pure passion for the art drives others -5th of 7 children, broken home. Leaving school at 15 with no qualifications - Self taught from age 12 - for well over 20 years - till age 33 , Billy went on to study music at University. 

Billy Pezzack  (B.Mus.Hons - PGDip Jazz -  Masters in Jazz)  is an active creative musician -  view 'Albums' page

Billy has many years of high level study, performance & teaching experience - he happily teaches complete beginners & those at an advanced level. Check out the example video links on the lesson page  to see (& hear!) what he can do in a range of music styles.

Reputable endorsement 

“Billy Pezzack is one of the most admired Jazz guitarists on the Welsh scene. Typically presenting as a solo musician, Billy features the classic jazz masters with wonderful improvisations and melodic interpretations, which audiences really understand and appreciate. He has also innovated in opening up new, small and intimate spaces for jazz, in galleries, cafes, theatre, busking, hotels and many more. Billy has appeared at Brecon Jazz Festival, Cheltenham Jazz and many other iconic events and deserves wider attention and platforms to delight the public with his distinctive and captivating performances”

Lynne Gornall & Roger Cannon

Brecon Jazz Club & Brecon Jazz Festival 2016-2024

“Billy is an outstanding electric guitar specialist tutor at Cardiff University School of Music and has been for many years. He is a wonderful musician and educator and the students adore him. I highly recommend” 

Dr Dan Bickerton  (Cardiff University)

“His New Blues Concept outlines some new and innovative ways of looking at conventional blues harmony and by implication creating new soloing language (and ways of soloing) in the jazz / blues genre”

Huw Warren - jazz pianist / composer / professor of Jazz at RWCMD 

"He has made several very interesting connections between the blues and contemporary jazz improvisation…  It is often the new take on previously adopted theories that move a genre forward"

Paula Gardiner - Jazz Composer / Bass player / head of jazz studies at RWCMD 

“He has many compositional ideas based on establishing re harmonization's of existing jazz chord progressions.

I believe that this makes his work important for several reasons”

Shaun Baxter - Head of Academy of music and sound / jazz musician / educator / recording artist