Jess Green

Biography

Jess Green is an Australian guitarist, and vocalist, established as a genre-defying performer and composer. She has toured with jazz & blues luminaries including The catholics, The Vampires, Sandy Evans, Jim Conway and Renee Geyer as well as contemporary artists; Laura Jean, Katie Noonan, Georgia Mooney and Alyx Dennison. She has recorded two instrumental jazz albums ‘The Singing Fish’ and ‘Tinkly Tinkly’,  released art-pop music under the pseudonym Pheno and appeared on Playschool. Recent projects include Strange Attractors (spontaneous improvisations with drummer Dylan van der Schyff), and Indian/Jazz fusion project Shakti Spirit led by Sandy Evans. In 2024 Jess was a key creative and performer for the premiere of new children’s music theatre work The Girl Who Glows (touring Sydney in 2026). Recent commissions include The Australian Art Orchestra,  Patricia Piccinini (Every Heart Sings -NGA, and A Miracle Constantly Repeated -Melbourne Rising) and Luminescence Chamber Singers.  Jess currently teaches at The Sydney Conservatorium of Music and is Program Leader Equity in Jazz (Gender). In 2025 Jess was invited to program the Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival. Upcoming, Jess is working on a full length theatre work for The Street Theatre with writer Emile Collyer and a second commission for Luminescence chamber singers.