As We Are Now is Greene’s first release since 2020’s While Looking Up (Mack Avenue). At the album’s core is a powerful, emotionally stirring, and deeply personal suite of songs commissioned by Chamber Music America after naming Greene a winner of its Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-funded New Jazz Works grant program in 2023. As Greene states, “My emotional path over the past 12 years has not been linear - in my experience, there isn't a straight line from tragedy to triumph. Instead, I have consistently experienced a range of emotions, over time, that occupy the spectrum between great joy and deep sorrow. I tried to reflect that spectrum of emotion in the composition of the various songs that comprise the suite.”