Bill Perry, Jr. is an American musician born in Chicago, Illinois. Perry is a jazz pianist and music composer who lives in Oxford, MS. He has 3 albums, 2 of which are currently available on iTunes and other online music eStores: Beyond The Darkness (Bill Perry Trio), and Phantom (Bill Perry). He also has a hip-hop single called "Lovely" also available on iTunes under his rap name Bill Mysteryo. 

Current Resume

   Perry is currently performing in various bands and music projects, as well as teaching jazz improvisation for private lessons. His hip hop jazz trio, Bill Perry Trio, is currently performing at many events and club dates throughout the state of Mississippi, such as Underground 119 (Jackson, MS), Proud Larry’s (Oxford, MS), and The Yellow Scarf (Jackson, MS; owned by Grammy-winning singer Cassandra Wilson). His trio has been featured many times on Memphis television; Live at 9 (hosted by Alex Coleman & Marybeth Conley/Channel 3 CBS), Good Morning Memphis (hosted by Valerie Calhoun/Fox 13), and Local Sessions (hosted by Joy Lambert and Rodney Dunigan/ABC Channel 24). Perry also performed in a music showcase for Cassandra Wilson’s record label, Ojah Media Group, at the B.B. King’s Club in Manhattan, New York in late January 2013. In 2012, he performed at the Lincoln Center in New York with his father Bill “Howl-N-Madd” Perry and his sister Sharo Perry. He has been been actively producing full-length albums since 2010, those albums are: Language of the Cosmos (Solo piano/2010), Beyond the Darkness (Bill Perry Trio/2011), and Phantom (Solo LP/2012). He helped form a hip hop jazz funk band in Oxford, MS called Fadetoblaq in October 2012, and they have since went on to play a month long residency engagement at Proud Larry’s for the month of June 2013, and many other club dates at venues like Zorba’s (Starkville, MS), Ajax (Oxford, MS), The Upper End (Vicksburg, MS), and Underground 119 (Jackson, MS) to name a few. The Mississippi Blues Trail Marker on the Oxford Square features his father Howl-N-Madd’s name, as well as him and his sister for all the musical contributions from his family throughout this state and beyond. The unveiling ceremony was held in October 2011.

  Perry attended the University of Mississippi as a Music Theory major with a minor in piano from July 2006-December 2007. In that time, he also became a member of the nation’s leading music fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in the fall semester of 2006 (Lambda Xi chapter). He has also participated and performed for various music workshops at Ole Miss, Mississippi University for Women, Delta State, and many sponsored musical events and symposiums in Mississippi. Some key musical figures he has done music workshops with are B.B. King (Delta State), Bobby Rush (Delta State), and members of the Lincoln Jazz Orchestra (Ole Miss with The Mississippians Jazz Ensemble). He has been teaching piano and jazz improvisation to a variety of people in Oxford, MS and beyond. Some of his students have been Eric Carlton (keyboardist for Jimbo Mathis), Dr. Cliff Ochs (professor of Biology at Ole Miss), Rosemary Vandenbroucke (Hong Kong top model and pop singer), and Dr. John Latartara (professor of Music Theory at Ole Miss and my current student).  He has also written a collection of essays about music entitled The Modern Day Musician: Parts 1-5. These essays were originally published separately in various issues of The Local Voice newspaper in Oxford, MS from 2006-2012. But his current plan is to release these essays to a broader audience in hopes of inspiring musicians to seek a spiritual balance with themselves and their respective music careers.

  His latest project was a visual concept album called Mother Universe and All Her Children, which features five (5) musical movements complete with images of space as the visual effect. It was featured in Oxford, MS twice as a film project for music education held at Proud Larry’s November 18, 2013, and at The Powerhouse in January 2014. All proceeds that were made from the viewing of this film were donated to Piano Discoveries, a music education camp held on the campus of Ole Miss every summer for children ages 7-18, and teaches them about the fundamentals of piano and music theory

Bill Perry Jr. has been performing music professionally since 1993. Starting out as a rapper , Perry created & produced his own hip-hop music, which lead him to jazz piano. He has been featured on BET Jazz twice & in syndication on BET J's "Jazz Visions". As a rapper, he has opened for Ghostface Killah & Snoop Dog! As a pianist, he has played in various countries such as Hong Kong, Indonesia, & Canada. Perry has been featured on WREG's "Live At 9" Channel 3 (CBS in Memphis), Fox 13's "Good Morning Memphis", "Local Sessions" on Channel 24 ABC Memphis, Thacker Mountain Radio in Oxford (broadcasted throughout Mississippi) and numerous other radio programs. Perry has also worked as a disc jockey and program director at radio stations in Mississippi like WQLJ 93.7 FM (Oxford, MS), WOXD 95.5 FM (Oxford, MS), WGNL-GNG (Greenwood, MS), and WROX in Clarskdale, MS (DJ and Program Director at WROX in 2005-06). He has played in every major Blues & Jazz festival in Mississippi, and has played New York's premier blues club Terra Blues with his father, legendary blues musician Bill "Howl-N-Madd" Perry. Perry, his father, & his sister Sharo Perry are featured on a Blues Trail Marker in Oxford, MS for their contributions to the music world in the south & beyond. The Perry family also performed at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan, NY in 2012 for a documentary based on blues musicians from Mississippi called "True Delta", directed by Lee Quinby. Perry has also written a 6-part music essay called The Modern Day Musician which details Perry's philosophy about being a professional musician in modern times, and how to maintain integrity and spiritualism with music. Mixing various styles and influences into his musical mix, Bill Perry is the epitome of the hybrid modern-day musician!