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Kelly Green Biography

Kelly Green is a "triple threat" pianist, vocalist, and composer currently residing in Queens, New York City.

 Born and raised in Florida, she began singing as a toddler and piano lessons at age seven. She showed an interest in jazz at age 11 and began attending the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Workshop every summer with her father Jeff Green, a professional bassist and audio engineer. 

Her senior year of high school she recorded and produced her own album of twelve original songs called Aspire

She received her bachelors degree from University of North Florida and her masters from William Paterson University where she had the opportunity to study with the likes of Bunky Green, Lynne Arriale, Harold Mabern, and Mulgrew Miller. 

She won her first award in 2011 at the Jacksonville Jazz Festival taking home first place in the Generation Next Youth Talent Competition. 

Miss Green has released four albums to date with her fifth, Corner of My Dreams (2025) set for release this August. 

Life Rearranged (2017), Kelly Green Trio: Volume One (2018), Endings That Are Beginnings (2022), and Seems (2024) have placed Green’s music on the radar of many listeners through radio and television play, press reviews and interviews, and inclusion on popular playlists on digital streaming platforms. 

The most recent single release from her forthcoming album Corner of My Dreams placed Green on the cover of the Fresh Jazz playlist on Amazon Music. 

She has been building a hefty following through her traveling and performing live for audiences all over the world. 

Her tours within the last 5 months include Slovenia, Czechia, Croatia, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, and Greece, California, Arizona, Florida and Michigan. 

Ms. Green and her band will be returning to the west coast in July, Arizona and Colorado in October, and Europe in November of 2025.

Green and her quartet were awarded the South Arts/Jazz Roads Touring Grant for their upcoming California tour in July generously funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation!

Green has sold out at venues including Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Birdland Theater, and Timucua Arts Center and has brought her indelible charm to venues and festivals including The Kennedy Center, Blue Note, DC Jazz Festival and the Bahrain International Jazz festival.

She and her band have been the artists in residence at Universities including York College, Jacksonville University, William Paterson University and Western Michigan University teaching masterclasses and performing concerts. 

In 2019 Green and her trio were invited to perform in the DC Jazz Festival as part of the centennial celebration of Nat King Cole and in 2021 Green was awarded the Emergency Musician Relief Fund by the Louis Armstrong Foundation.  

In 2020 Green and her bassist and partner Luca Soul Rosenfeld started a concert series and recording studio in their living room called Green Soul Studios. They have recorded many projects and put on concerts featuring musicians including Rich Perry, Scott Robinson, and Steve Wilson bringing access to world-class music to their local neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens.

 

Through her recordings and performances she has been featured alongside jazz luminaries including Christian McBride, George Coleman, Billy Hart, and Steve Wilson. 

In addition to being an outstanding performer, Green is a top-tier educator having been a teaching artist for world renowned non-profit organization Jazz House Kids for the past 10 years and taken part in countless masterclasses and workshops.

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