{{short description|American jazz musician}}{{For|the Monsterverse character|Lee Shaw (Monsterverse)}} '''Lee Shaw''' (June 25, 1926 – October 25, 2015), was an American jazz pianist and composer. Born Londa Lee Moore<ref>[https://usao.edu/alumni/shaw-londa-lee-moore-1999 SHAW, LONDA LEE MOORE 1999] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329010519/http://usao.edu/alumni/shaw-londa-lee-moore-1999 |date=2013-03-29 }}: ''University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma''. Retrieved November 4, 2015.</ref> 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.<ref name="First">{{cite news |url=http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/First-Lady-of-Jazz-Lee-Shaw-dies-at-89-6589684.php |title='First Lady of Jazz,' Lee Shaw, dies at 89 |last=Barnes |first=Steve |date=October 25, 2015 |newspaper=Times Union |access-date=October 27, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Trio">{{cite web |url=https://www.sonicbids.com/band/leeshawtrio/ |title=Lee Shaw Trio |website=sonicbids.com |access-date=October 27, 2015}}</ref>
==Background== 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.<ref name="First" />
==Lee Shaw Trio== 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''.<ref name="First" /><ref name="Trio" />
==Documentary== 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hudsonvalleyalmanacweekly.com/2015/09/30/lees-88-keys-love-what-you-do-and-share-it/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151010012828/http://www.hudsonvalleyalmanacweekly.com/2015/09/30/lees-88-keys-love-what-you-do-and-share-it/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=October 10, 2015 |title=''Lee's 88 Keys'': Love what you do and share it |last=Bresnan |first=Debra |date=September 30, 2015 |website=hudsonvalleyalmanacweekly.com |access-date=October 27, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Health">{{cite news |url=http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Jazz-pianist-Lee-Shaw-remains-ageless-6171737.php |title=Jazz pianist Lee Shaw remains ageless |last=Grondahl |first=Paul |date=March 31, 2015 |newspaper=Times Union |access-date=October 27, 2015}}</ref>
==Health and death== 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.<ref name="Health" /> On October 25, 2015, Shaw died in a hospice in Troy, New York. She was 89.<ref name="First" />
==Discography== * ''Lee Shaw OK!'' (Cadence, 1984) * ''Essence'' (CIMP, 1997) * ''A Place for Jazz'' (Cadence, 2002) * ''Together Again'' with John Medeski (ARC, 2010) * ''Live at Caspe Terrace'' (Cadence, 2014)
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==External links== *{{AllMusic|id=mn0000964670}} *[http://www.okjazz.org/index.cfm?id=160 Lee Shaw] at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame
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