Recently I picked up a used self-titled LP by a group called Wholly Cats since it had some potentially hot swing performances on it. Only after I got it home and played it did I realize that the 1981 album (from the Grassroots label) had the recording debut of Rebecca Kilgore who not only took a few winning vocals in her familiar voice but a solid guitar solo on “Yacht Club Swing.”
Although she would not become famous in the jazz world until the 1990s, she was already one of the best.
