Jaleel Shaw Trio Harlem in the Himalayas
Friday March 12, 2010 @ 7:00 PM
$18.00 in advance / $20.00 day of
Member Price: $16.20
Jaleel Shaw, alto saxophone
Dwayne Burno, acoustic bass
Otis Brown III, drums
Jaleel Shaw, alto saxophonist grew up in Philadelphia, PA, where he studied with saxophone instructors Rayburn Wright and Robert Landham, and Lovette Hines. While attending Berklee College of Music in Boston he studied privately with Saxophonist Andy Mcghee, Billy Pierce, George Garzone, and Shanon LeClaire. During his time in Boston Jaleel received the Billboard Endowed Scholarship for Outstanding Academic and Musical achievement (1998), two Woodwind Dept. Chair Awards, The Outstanding Student Teacher Award, and The Boston Jazz Society Award (1999).
After graduating from Berklee, Jaleel received a scholarship to attend the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he received his Masters in Jazz Performance in May, 2002. Jaleel was recruited by both the Mingus Big Band and Count Basie Orchestra and appears on two Grammy-nominated CDs by the Mingus Big Band: Tonight at Noon and I Am Three.
After five years in New York, Jaleel's debut CD Perspective was released in June 2005 to rave reviews from The New York Times and was named one of the top five debut CDs of 2005 by All About Jazz Magazine, Jazzwise Magazine, and the Jazz Journalist Association. In the fall of 2005, Jaleel joined world renown drummer Roy Haynes' Quartet and recorded the Grammy-nominated CD Whereas for the Dreyfus Label.
In 2008, Jaleel launched his own record label - Changu Records, on which he released his second CD Optimism. That summer Jaleel was nominated as one of the Up and Coming Jazz Musicians of the year by the Jazz Journalist Association. Today Jaleel continues to perform primarily in three groups - The Roy Haynes Quartet, the Mingus Big Band, and his own Trio, Quartet and Quintet.
