Education
Raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Shaw attended the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts and graduated from George Washington High School (Philadelphia).
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Jaleel Shaw
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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.
Shaw released his first Civil Defense, Perspective in 2005.
lieutenant 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.
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Jaleel Shaw is currently a member of the Roy Haynes Quartet and the Mingus Big Band.
