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Lee Shaw is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He was born on June 25, 1926 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He began playing piano at the age of five and was performing professionally by the time he was a teenager. He attended the University of Oklahoma and studied music theory and composition. Shaw has performed with some of the most renowned jazz musicians of the 20th century, including Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, and Benny Goodman. He has also performed with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Tony Bennett. He has released several albums as a leader, including "Lee Shaw Trio" (1956), "Lee Shaw Quartet" (1958), and "Lee Shaw and His Orchestra" (1960). Shaw has been honored with numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship in 2006. He is also a recipient of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award. As of 2021, Lee Shaw's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

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2015

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, New York. She was 89.

2013

In 2013, filmmaker Susan Robbins began working on a documentary about Shaw, titled Lee's 88 Keys, after meeting her in 1998 and later attending the frail woman's memorable performance years later. The documentary was released in April 2015. Shaw attended and accepted the 2015 Jazz Hero Award from the Jazz Journalists' Association.

1993

The Lee Shaw Trio 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 DVD, Live in Graz.

1961

Shaw studied piano classically at Oklahoma College for Women and obtained a master's degree at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. It was there that she met drummer Stan Shaw in 1961. They married within six months and formed the Lee Shaw Trio, playing pop standards in restaurants and nightclubs around Chicago. She claimed to have never heard the term "jazz" until attending a Count Basie concert. She studied with Oscar Peterson, who offered his tutelage after hearing her play.

1926

Lee Shaw (June 25, 1926 – October 25, 2015), was an American jazz pianist and composer. 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.

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