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 | | And although this session is often credited as the "origin" of scat singing in jazz, there are many other earlier practitioners of the mode. |
 | | If "Heebie Jeebies" is an unprecedented occasion for poetic innovation, in which Armstrong's scat somehow moves closer to the qualities of music, it forces the recognition that an occasion is etymologically precisely that, Latin for a "falling toward." |
 | | Here, the lyric sheet drifts down to the floor, and the singer finds resource, happening upon a new sound (itself falling away from the word) in the void of the phonograph horn. |
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