Introduction
Jaleel Shaw (born February 11, 1978, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz alto saxophonist.
Biography
Raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Shaw attended Greene Street Friends School, the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts and graduated from George Washington High School (Philadelphia).
He received a dual degree in Music Education and Performance in 2000 from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He subsequently attended the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, from which he received a master's degree in Jazz Performance in May 2002. He was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition that year. In 2008 he was awarded ASCAP’s 2008 Young Jazz Composer Award.
Shaw released his first CD, Perspective in 2005. It was reviewed as one of the top debut albums of that year by All About Jazz and was deemed a "convincing opening statement in what promises to be an important career". In 2008 Shaw released his sophomore recording Optimism. His most recent album, Soundtrack of Things to Come, was released in 2013.
Jaleel Shaw is a member of the Roy Haynes Quartet and the Mingus Big Band.
Discography
As leader
| Year recorded | Title | Label | Personnel/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Perspective | Fresh Sound | Sextet, with Mark Turner (tenor saxophone), Lage Lund (guitar), Robert Glasper (piano), Vicente Archer (bass), and Jonathan Blake (drums) |
| 2008 | Optimism | Changu | Sextet, with Marcus Strickland (tenor and soprano saxophones), Lage Lund (guitar), Robert Glasper (piano), Joe Martin (bass), and Jeremy Pelt (trumpet), Jonathan Blake (drums) |
| 2013 | Soundtrack of Things to Come | Changu | Quartet, with Lawrence Fields (piano), Boris Kozlov (bass), and Jonathan Blake (drums) |
As sideman
| Year recorded | Leader | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Harrell, TomTom Harrell | Colors of a Dream | HighNote |
| 2011 | Haynes, RoyRoy Haynes | Roy-Alty | Dreyfus |
| 2011 | Williams, BenBen Williams | State of Art | Concord |
| 2006 | Haynes, RoyRoy Haynes | Whereas | Dreyfus |