Personal Life
He now spends most of his time with his second wife Kathy, a jazz singer, at their home in the Poconos region of Pennsylvania. The couple have two children, Jesse and Casey. Jesse is a jazz pianist and lives nearby, while Casey is a director/editor in Los Angeles, California. Urbie's first wife was Darlein Dietz and they had two children, Urban Clifford Green and James Preston Green. Urban has a daughter, Gretchen Alexandra Pöelker-Green, and lives in Sea Cliff, Long Island. James lives in Tallahassee, Florida, and has a son named Vincent.
In 1995 he was elected into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. Urbie Green still plays live at the Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts (COTA) Festival every September, just miles down the road from his home.
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