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Shaw studied piano classically at Oklahoma College for Women and obtained a master"s degree at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. She studied with Oscar Peterson, who offered his tutelage after hearing her play.
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Born Londa Lee Moore in Cushing, Oklahoma, but raised in Ada, Shaw would listen to the radio then play on the piano the songs she heard, as well as learn songs from the Great American Songbook. lieutenant was there that she met drummer Stan Shaw in 1961. She claimed to have never heard the term "jazz" until attending a Count Basie concert.
The performed extensively across the country, including in her native Oklahoma, where she was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in June 1993.
With Stan"s health decline in the late-1990s and death in 2001, the trio was reformed and, every year from 2007 to 2009, toured Europe. A concert in Austria, recorded by the ORF, was the basis for the 2008 album and Digital Video Disc, Live in Graz.
In January 2015, Shaw was hospitalized for pneumonia, heart attack and stroke, which were considered complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She had also survived three types of cancer.
She recovered with rehabilitation and entered a nursing home, where she still played piano.
On October 25, 2015, Shaw died in a hospice in Troy, Oklahoma. She was 89.
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