katharine whalen / albums

3,851 plays
1 SHARES
0 FAVS
0 fans

Katharine Whalen's Jazz Squad,Katharine Whalen

- Katharine Whalen's Jazz Squad
- - 1,960 plays
  - 0 favs
  - 0 shares
Katharine Whalen
Released 1999

'Deed I Do
02:42
273 plays

There Is No Greater Love
02:36
208 plays

Sugar
02:57
187 plays

- Add to cart
- buy
- share

songs

- 1
- 'Deed I Do
- 02:42
- 273 plays

- 2
- There Is No Greater Love
- 02:36
- 208 plays

- 3
- Sugar
- 02:57
- 187 plays

- 4
- Yesterdays
- 05:00
- 162 plays

- 5
- Just You, Just Me
- 03:22
- 181 plays

- 6
- Now or Never
- 02:13
- 135 plays

- 7
- My Old Flame
- 03:24
- 137 plays

- 8
- That Old Feeling
- 02:55
- 125 plays

- 9
- Badisma
- 03:05
- 162 plays

- 10
- All My Life
- 03:38
- 148 plays

- 11
- After You've Gone
- 03:46
- 119 plays

- 12
- My Baby Just Cares for Me
- 02:48
- 123 plays

album review

Singer and banjoist Katharine Whalen is one of the founding members of the Squirrel Nut Zippers, the North Carolina-based retro band whose joyful fusion of raw jump blues and hot jazz has been one of the most unlikely success stories of the 1990s. On her solo debut, Whalen steps out a bit (though not entirely) from the shadow of Billie Holiday, whose nasal, declamatory style has been a huge influence on Whalen from the beginning. She sings "'Deed I Do" and "There Is No Greater Love" in a somewhat warmer, sexier voice than usual; same with the finger-popping "That Old Feeling" (which, strangely, sounds like it was faded out halfway through the track). But she delivers "Yesterdays" with what almost sounds like a tribute to Holiday's delivery of the classic and controversial "Strange Fruit." The program ends with a strutting, ska-inflected version of "My Baby Just Cares for Me." Derivative or not, Whalen is a gifted chanteuse and a wonderful interpreter. Highly recommended. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide