Green's New Deal:
Kelly Green returns to Timucua with a new album and a new band
Kelly Green’s journey to her current elevated space in the New York jazz scene began right here in Central Florida, diverting to Duval County, where she matriculated amongst the iconic jazz scene at the University of North Florida before taking grad school at William Paterson in New Jersey. The move north proved permanent, and Green has been a key contributor to the most competitive music scene on Earth for over a decade, solid. 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 actual music has remained firmly grounded in jazz tradition, which for her purposes is still built around the Great American Songbook.
Green has emphasized her own compositions through much of her career, writing and recording at a prodigious pace that only accelerated after she founded Green Soul Studios, an intimate recording/performance space in Brooklyn. 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,” she says. “By sharing my story, I want to help others who are struggling with anxiety, depression, and grief.”
She'll be previewing this new material live at Timucua on Saturday night, April 19 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $30 ($22.50 for military), with the whole concert also being streamed live for just $10. The Kelly Green Trio includes her husband Luca Soul on bass and longtime collaborator Evan Hyde on drums; they will be augmented by a vocal choir led by Michelle Amato, whom Green studied with at UNF, and strings [details TBD]. It’s long-established as local tradition that Green's homecoming gigs are always must-see, and this one is especially so.
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