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She contributed vocals, banjo, and ukulele as a member of the Chapel Hill jazz band Squirrel Nut Zippers, a group that she founded in 1993 with then-husband Jimbo Mathus. After the breakup of Squirrel Nut Zippers, Whalen released an album on Mammoth called Katharine Whalen's Jazz Squad.
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The one new song on this album, "Badisma," written by Katharine Whalen's Jazz Squad guitarist and husband, Jimbo Mathus, is a stylish instrumental. Though it doesn't give Katharine the chance to show off her lovely vocals, which leaves a gap in the sound, the band is so right on the mark, and play true to their 20's and 30's influences, you can ...
Squirrel Nut Zippers is an American swing and jazz band formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by James "Jimbo" Mathus (vocals and guitar), Tom Maxwell (vocals and guitar), Katharine Whalen (vocals, banjo, ukulele), Chris Phillips (drums), Don Raleigh (bass guitar), and Ken Mosher.
In 1993, Mathus met and married Katharine Whalen. Together they formed Squirrel Nut Zippers . This group used Mathus' knowledge of theater, early American music and leadership along with Whalen's fashion and vocal style.
But the band was swept into the short-lived swing-music revival, and when the fad ended their fortunes began to erode, culminating in Mathus’s divorce from bandmate Katharine Whalen and a hiatus beginning in 2001.
4. Juli 2018 · Whalen realized that the Zippers’ “ Wash Jones ,” a banjo-driven tune written by frontman Jimbo Mathus that appears on the band’s 1995 debut, would be a good fit for the pair. “Jimbo had...
