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Kelly Green

Kelly Green is an acclaimed pianist, vocalist, and composer based in NYC. Her piano playing is sophisticated and modern while being connected to the tradition and her voice harkens to the likes of Sarah Vaughan and Blossom Dearie. Green’s compositional style is refreshingly outside of the box while effortlessly maintaining its roots in the jazz canon. She performs with an empowered flare of diplomacy and elegance, displaying her undeniable love of music-making and of her audience. 

She has headlined at illustrious clubs around the world including The Kennedy Center, Dizzy’s Club NYC (Jazz at Lincoln Center) and many more. 

Her first two releases, “Life Rearranged” (2017) and “Volume One” Kelly Green Trio (2018) were highly praised by critics and feature the talents of luminaries such as Christian McBride and Josh Evans.

She has performed alongside some of the world's leading voices in jazz including Steve Wilson, George Coleman, and Rich Perry. 

Awards

Semi-Finalist in the DC Jazz Prix

Semi-Finalist in the Bucharest International Jazz Competition.
 
Generation Next Youth Talent Competition at the Jacksonville Jazz Festival taking home first prize and a $2,000 savings bond for playing and singing Herbie Hancock’s “Eye of the Hurricane”.

 


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Album Review

Kelly Green: Volume One

Read "Volume One" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


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 ...

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Year in Review

C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2018

Read "C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2018" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


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 ...

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“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.” 

- San Francisco Classical Voice, Jeff Kaliss

 

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Blossom Dearie
piano and vocals

Concerts

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Endings that are...

Green Soul Studios
2022

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Volume One

KGMusic
2018

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Life Rearranged

Kelly Green
2017

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