Pianist/vocalist Kelly Green marks the release of her new single “The Very Thought of You” with a performance Friday at Vic’s Jazz Loft at The Stabin Museum, West Broadway, Jim Thorpe.

Green loves “the space and the people at Vic’s, and I’m excited to be back. You will be serenaded with classics and told musical stories.”

The Green trio, also featuring Green’s husband, Luca Soul Rosenfeld, on upright bass and Hugh Kline on drums, will play Green originals, plus songs from the Great American Songbook and jazz standards.

“The Very Thought of You,” a cover of jazz/big band musician Ray Noble’s 1934 pop standard, previews Green’s sixth album “Eat Your Greens.” The set, due Aug. 28 on La Reserve Records and Green Soul Studios, marks the singer’s first all-standards album, albeit with a catch.

“Two songs are technically originals,” Green noted, adding that the title track, a contrafact, overlays Green’s new melody line on the harmonic structure of Noble’s 1938 jazz standard “Cherokee.”

The album’s other original, “By the Way,” serves as “my theme song and is a standard in my repertoire book inspired by my mentor Harold Mabern and Bobby Timmons.”

Of the lead single, “it’s arranged using modern harmonies and Ahmad Jamal’s ‘Poinciana’ groove, arranged for octet,” said Green, who counts Duke Ellington’s “Solitude” as a favorite on the album.

Green’s new album came to fruition when the singer “finally wanted to record and release my arrangements of standards that I’ve been playing for years, but hadn’t yet recorded and released. And I wanted to play with musicians that are my heroes with whom I know and feel comfortable.”

Aside from Green and Rosenfeld, the album’s musicians include core-quartet players Elijah J. Thomas on flutes and Evan Hyde on drums. Guests include: Wycliffe Gordon, trombone, “When You’re Smilin’ ” vocals; Scott Robinson, tenor sax; Steve Wilson, alto sax; and Wallace Roney Jr., trumpet.

Born and raised just outside of Orlando, Florida, Green has lived in New York City for about 11 years and Queens for about seven. The composer knew throughout her childhood “that I would be a musician/performer for my whole life.”

However, “I didn’t predetermine the style or genre; that became solidified as I was studying and learning about jazz in my early teens and into young adulthood.”

Green, who wrote her first song at age 7, first saw a big band, via video, at 11. After telling her dad she liked jazz, “he started showing me albums and taking me to jazz camp in the summers.”

For seven years, Green and her bassist/audio engineer father attended the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Workshop. She then majored in jazz studies-piano performance at the University of North Florida and William Paterson University, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees, respectively.

Green, who had performed with school bands and choirs since age 7, played her first live gigs while in high school. She played those shows in small coffee shops, both solo and as a duo with her dad.

In 2017, Green — whose favorite albums include Thelonious Monk’s 1957 set “Brilliant Corners” and 1961’s “Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane” — released her debut set “Life Rearranged.” A Green trio album arrived in 2018, with Green solo efforts following in 2022 and 2024, respectively.

Green, whose credits include sidewoman work on various projects, has performed and recorded with jazz luminaries such as Rich Perry, Christian McBride, George Coleman and Billy Hart. She hopes to play more with Robinson and Gordon, with whom she spent time on and off the bandstand.

In addition, “I’ve had the pleasure of playing, hanging and recording with Kenny Wollesen, whom I love as a musician and human. I’d love to play and collaborate more with him.

“Two of my favorite trumpet players are Josh Evans, with whom I’ve played and recorded,” she continued, “and Marquis Hill, who I’d love to play with in the future.”

The pianist, who has extended her love of jazz to various teaching roles, also would love to play and collaborate with composer/guitarist Bill Frisell, cellist Vincent Segal and kora player Ballaké Sissoko.

Green, who co-founded the living room concert series/recording space Green Soul Studios, has enjoyed a number of career highlights. Her fifth album “Corner of My Dreams” ranks near the top, as she dedicated the 2025 album of all-original music and orchestrations to her late mother.

Other highlights include playing at Dizzy’s Club with Gordon and selling out Dizzy’s with her quartet.

Looking to the future, Green’s main goals/dreams include playing and recording a live album at The Village Vanguard. Furthermore, “I’d love to keep my quartet together long enough to continue traveling around the world and recording with them throughout the rest of my life.”

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.vicsjazzloft.com.