Kelly Green

Kelly Green is one of New York City’s most exciting new jazz artists, "well worth discovering" (NYC Jazz Record) !

A true triple threat—pianist, vocalist, and composer—Green brings a unique, genre-bending approach to her music, captivating audiences of jazz aficionados and casual listeners around the world.

She has shared the stage with musical visionaries such as Christian McBride, George Coleman, and Billy Hart, and has appeared at venues and festivals including The Kennedy Center, Dizzy’s Club, Birdland Theater, Blue Note, DC Jazz Festival, and Montclair Jazz Festival.

Known for her self-accompaniment, she performs intricate, lyric-driven arrangements of jazz standards and auspicious "outside-the-box" original compositions. With her internationally touring band, she curates eclectic sets that bridge eras and genres—featuring arrangements of works by Mulgrew Miller, Duke Ellington, Eric Dolphy, and selections from the Blossom Dearie songbook.

Green has released four albums to date: Life Rearranged (2017), Kelly Green Trio: Volume One (2018), Endings That Are Beginnings (2022), and Seems (2024). Her fifth album, Corner of My Dreams, is set for release in August 2025.

Her recordings have earned critical acclaim, with Seems described as “an album of incredible class” (Thierry De Clemensat). Christian McBride calls her “one of the most talented and spirited people I know,” and All About Jazz lauds her as “an artist and performer in toto.”

Through her exceptional musicianship and storytelling, Steinway Artist Kelly Green makes every performance a unique once-in-a-lifetime experience, leaving each audience member feeling as though they experienced a personal concert, just for them.

www.kellygreenpiano.com

Awards

Winner of the Generation Next Youth Talent Competition at the Jacksonville Jazz Festival

Recipient of the Spring 2025 South Arts/Jazz Roads Touring Grant for her upcoming Quartet tour of California July 10-13

Gear

Kelly Green is a Steinway Artist.

Take Five With Pianist And Vocalist Kelly Green

by AAJ Staff
August 26, 2024

Meet Kelly Green Kelly Green is a renowned pianist and vocalist based in Queens, New York. A Florida native, she began her musical journey early, studying piano from age seven and diving into jazz at eleven. She earned her Bachelor in Jazz Studies from the University of North Florida, where she was awarded the Outstanding Musician's Award, and her Masters in Jazz Piano Performance from William Paterson University, studying under jazz and classical greats. Kelly has made a ...

Radio & Podcasts

Bob Mover, Bill Evans, Grover Washington, Jr. & Kelly Green

by Joe Dimino
April 28, 2024

We begin the 852nd Episode of Neon Jazz with the talents of Kelly Green and music from her 2024 release Seems. From there, we hear from her mentor in the late Harold Mabern. Continuing on, we run down a bevy of new music from Martin Buddy, Scott Marshall, David Schumacher and the Jazz Saxophone Quartet. In between, we hear classic tunes from Grover Washington, Jr., Bob Mover and Walter Davis Jr. Finally, we cap this hour off with music from ...

Album Review

Kelly Green: Volume One

Read "Volume One" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
December 12, 2018

If we were talking baseball, pianist, vocalist, and composer Kelly Green would be highly touted as a three tool player. And she deserves to be. From every angle she hears breaks and stops, harmonic and melodic whoops, swoops and vocal dips and dives that the rest of us maybe don't until the artist makes them as present and immediate as breathing. Stepping away from the larger sound that powered 2017's critically accepted, self produced debut, for the bracingly ...

Year in Review

C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2018

by C. Michael Bailey
December 7, 2018

The Pocket Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Stangel Beethoven Revisited Symphonies 1-9 One thing that can be bragged on regarding Beethoven's nine symphonies is their artistic durability and persistence. As the pinnacle of Western Musical thought, we might not expect any less of this music, seemingly forged in humanity's collective unconscious, as well as possibly encoded in our spiritual genome... continue. Tiffany Austin Unbroken One of the greatest talents ...

Recording

Pianist-singer Kelly Green Honors Her Late Mother On 'Corner Of My Dreams,' Set For August 22 Release By La Reserve Records

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
June 26, 2025

By taking a wistful look backward, Kelly Green takes a tremendous artistic stride forward with her August 22 release of Corner of My Dreams (La Reserve Records/Green Soul Studios). Inspired by and in tribute to her late mother, Green’s fifth album also finds her at the head of an ambitious assemblage. Her working trio with bassist Luca Soul Rosenfeld and drummer Evan Hyde is augmented by an accomplished, all-female string quartet under the leadership of violinist Ludovica Burtone; percussionist Andromeda ...
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"Kelly Green is one of the most talented & spirited people I know. Everything about her is joyous and swingin'!"

-Christian McBride

“Kelly Green is a triple threat as pianist, vocalist and composer”

-Jazz Weekly, George Harris

“Her piano playing is sophisticated and modern while also being connected to the tradition. Her vocals are subtle, quietly expressive and full of insight.”

- Scott Yanow, LA Jazz Scene

“Her love of music-making and of her audience is as warmly undeniable as it is rare in this hypercompetitive digital age.”