The move northward proved permanent, and Green has been a key contributor to the most competitive music scene on Earth for over a decade. Her role became more pronounced five years ago, when the pandemic shut down New York, closed every jazz club in America (many of which never reopened) and killed more jazz legends around the world in a faster period of time than anything since heroin.
Green and her colleagues not only helped rebuild that scene from the ashes of the past, but they also helped reconfigure it for the needs of the future, dragging jazz into the modern era, in terms of marketing, promotion and distribution, especially via social media. All the while, her own music has remained firmly grounded in jazz tradition, which for her purposes is still built around the Great American Songbook.
Her fourth album, Seems, was released last March, and her fifth is due out any day now. Corner of My Dreams is dedicated to her mother, the late great Kathy Kanouse Green.
“Corner of My Dreams is an album of original music and orchestrations dedicated to my late mother exploring my journey from heavy grief to positive remembrance,” Green says. “By sharing my story, I want to help others who are struggling with anxiety, depression and grief.”
The Kelly Green Trio includes her husband, Luca Soul, on bass, and longtime collaborator Evan Hyde on drums; they will be augmented by strings and a vocal choir led by Michelle Amato, with whom Green studied at UNF. It’s long-established as local tradition that Green’s homecoming gigs are always must-see, and this one is especially so.
She’ll be previewing new material live at Timucua on Saturday, April 19, at 7:30 pm.
Timucua Arts Foundation
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This article appears in Apr 16-22, 2025.