December 7, 2010 at
All Souls at Sundown:

Jaleel Shaw, saxophone
Aaron Goldberg, piano

and the poetry of Mark Doty

“A bright, robust energy suffuses the playing of Jaleel Shaw, an alto saxophonist who works with the venerable drummer Roy Haynes. Mr. Shaw has a purposeful but uncomplicated relationship with the postbop tradition — he isn’t out to reinvent the wheel, just spin it as he pleases — and he keeps excellent company, leaning on a handful of like-minded peers.”

—The New York Times

Jaleel Shaw’s debut CD Perspective was released in June 2005 to rave reviews from Jazzwise Magazine and The New York Times. In the Fall of 2005, Jaleel joined world-renowned drummer Roy Haynes’ Quartet and recorded the Grammy©-nominated CD Whereas with the group for the Dreyfus label. Jaleel continues to perform primarily in four groups: Roy Haynes Quartet, Mingus Big Band, and his own quartet and quintet. He appears on two Grammy©-nominated CDs by the Mingus Big Band: Tonight at Noon and I Am Three.

Winner of the National Book Award in 2008, bestselling poet Mark Doty is “a maker of big, risky, fearless poems in which ordinary human experience becomes music” (Philip Levine). He is the only American recipient of Britain’s T.S. Eliot Prize, awarded for Doty’s collection of poems about his partner’s struggle with AIDS. “Doty is a poet of glow. The surface glow does not merely delight us, but also leads us deeper in, to insight… And it is the poem's search — the search for source, deep beneath the surfaces — that counts (The New York Times).

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