Bio
Jeff Greene is one of the emerging young bassists and composers in the Chicago jazz and creative music scene. Since completing his Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies from Indiana University in 2004, where he studied with David Baker, Bruce Bransby, Pat Harbison, and Steve Houghton, he has been active as a composer and a performer in Chicago and throughout the Midwest, performing in such legendary venues as the Green Mill, the Velvet Lounge, the Hungry Brain, Metro, Park West, Andy’s, the Blue Wisp, Baker’s Keyboard Lounge, the Jazz Factory, the Firefly, and the Artists’ Quarter, as well as at the Taste of Chicago and Millennium Music Conference 10. In June of 2004 he was invited to attend the Steans Institute for Young Artists at Ravinia where he studied closely with David Baker, Nathan Davis, James Moody, Rufus Reid, and Danilo Perez, in addition to fourteen of his peers. In April of 2006 he was selected to attend Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. where he studied with Curtis Fuller, George Cables, Winard Harper, and Billy Taylor. Jeff has recorded albums with the James Davis and Greg Duncan quintets, as well as the Nick Fryer and Doug Stone Quartet and Fitted Shards, performing the music of saxophonist Greg Ward. As a composer he has written more than forty-five pieces for various ensembles, recorded more than twenty of his own compositions as the leader of Human Motion and blink., and in 2007 the Illinois Arts Council awarded Jeff an Artists Fellowship in Music Composition to support the creation of new, original works. In 2008 he was commissioned to write “Storylines,” a large ensemble piece for the Ears and Eyes Festival in Chicago. blink. was signed to the world-renowned Thirsty Ear label in the spring of 2008 and is currently touring to support their new album, “The Epidemic of Ideas.”
