Lightning has struck twice for Katharine Whalen. It happened in the ’90s, when the Squirrel Nut Zippers, the jump blues/hot jazz outfit the North Carolina native had formed with her then-husband, Jim Mathus, hit pay dirt, inadvertent stars of the neo-swing movement. Fast-forward ten years, past the release of her first solo album, Katharine Whalen’s Jazz Squad, the demise of the Zippers, the birth of daughter Cecelia Mae, now six, and the responsibilities of single motherhood.
Enter producer/player David Sale, the San Diego-based former leader...
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