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	Scat singing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scat singing is vocalizing either wordlessly or with nonsense words and syllables as employed by jazz singers who create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using only the voice.
		While the use of nonsense syllables in singing long predates scat, scat singing is distinguished by the fact that rather than using the sounds to exactly reproduce the melodic line, improvisations are made with the melody and rhythm, much as in other jazz improvisations.
		Scat singing influenced the development of doo-wop and hip hop.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scat_singing (693 words)

	Scat chorus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A scat chorus is an example of voice music: in other words a string of meaningless syllables that carry a melody such as do-wah-diddy-diddy-dum-diddy-doo or ooh-eee-ooh-ah-ah-ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang, though it's often improvised on the spot, rather than codified as those two examples.
		Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torme and Cab Calloway among others, were known for scat singing.
		Today a (relatively) famous scat singer is Dee Dee Bridgewater.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scat_chorus (96 words)

	Scat
		Scat is most closely associated by the general public with Ella Fitzgerald and her many imitators.
		With her recording of "Flying Home" (thought to be her first scat based song, released in 1947) she introduced variations of scat which showcased a segment of songs made famous by other performers.
		Today scat has scaled new heights of virtuosity with such performers as Bobby McFerrin, who was even able to put a few scat songs on the Top 40 Charts during the late 1980s and early 90s.
	meltingpot.fortunecity.com /zaire/721/history/scat.htm (464 words)

	Shooby Taylor: 1929-2003
		Born: September 19, 1929 in Indiana Township, PA Died: June 4, 2003 in Newark, NJ Cult-favorite scat singer
		Taylor's scatting style was unique to say the least, peppered with syllables that seemed nonsensical even in the scat mode: "poppy-poppy, toppy-toppy, splaw tweedle-dee raw-shaw".
		The station management got their hands on some of Taylor's recordings and, with the singer's permission, cobbled together a cassette which was sold as a fundraising premium.
	www.jazzhouse.org /gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=1083364383 (595 words)

	Re: Scat
		Scat, meaning a piece of excrement left by an animal out where some zoologist can find it, is not.
		Scat from scatology is a neologism, and a bad one, although it seems to have wriggled itself into the langage--alas!
		Ella Fitzgerald was known as a "scat singer." This refers to a style of singing, not to its subject matter, and has no unsanitary connotations.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/27/messages/1024.html (691 words)

	John "Scatman" Larkin 'Listen To The Scatman'
		More than 8 million copies of his cd's were sold, he had two no. 1 singles in almost every country in the world, won 14 gold and 18 platinum records.
		Larkin did not build a career as a singer, but as a pianist.
		On this cd we meet the incredible scat singer and accomplished jazz pianist John Larkin, who puts humour and musicality into a number of well-known songs.
	www.sundance.dk /website/john__scatman__larkin__listen_.htm (156 words)

	Ella Fitzgerald
		Indeed, the best jazz singers are still in some sense "supposed" to be female in large part because of the role model she and Billie Holliday set and the legends they left behind.
		Her simplicity, vocal honesty, clarity, and improvisational skills made her, not only one of the greatest singers, but one of the greatest jazz musicians ever, even though her "instrument" was nothing but her own voice.
		Although louis Armstrong is credited with "inventing" scat singing, Ella developed scat singing into an art of its own: where a singer sings nonsense vocal tones, using his or her voice improvisationally as a musical instrument instead of a speaking device.
	www.austinlindy.com /ella_fitzgerald.htm (1352 words)

	Kitty Margolis Official Site
		Using all of the devices at her command, Margolis possesses the rare ability to reshape a song as it were clay into a creation of her own imagination.
		Her adventurous scat solos often blur the distinction between singer and wailing instrumentalist.
		Not surprising when you consider her role models are singers indifferent to the vagaries of commercial success such as Mark Murphy, Sheila Jordan and especially Betty Carter.
	www.kittymargolis.com /html/music/music_heartandsoul_Reviews.htm (907 words)

	Jazz Bulletin Board - Vocal jazz improvisation
		scat singing is merely improvising without words, the same as what a horn would do.
		The singer's frustration of trying to lead a band when he/she can't read, or can't speak in musical terms to ask for what one wants, just adds to all the other little things that go with being a bandleader.
		While every good scat singer develops her own vocabulary of sounds, there are a few guidelines that may help.
	forums.allaboutjazz.com /printthread.php?t=986 (1824 words)

	Jenna Mammina - Jazz vocalist
		Scat for Cats is a program designed to introduce principles of musical development to K-12th grade students.
		Scat for Cats addresses the need for extemporaneous musical expression in children.
		Scat is a vocal forum for the development of musical definition, musical form and musical creativity.
	www.jennamammina.com /scat2.phtml (239 words)

	www.jazzweekly.com \| Reviews
		This is fortunate, because she is a completely different sort of singer: her voice is lower, and her vocal range is rather restricted (compared to Purim's, that is).
		White is more a pure jazz singer than Montgomery - she is a capable scat singer, and her innate sense of swing serves her well on uptempo jazz standards (e.g., "This Can't Be Love," "Day In - Day Out," "The Sweetest Sounds").
		On the surface, Julie Kelley has a lot in common with Carla White: she uses her smooth alto voice to re investigate a brace of largely familiar jazz standards, and she is a respectable scat singer ("A Minor Stroll").
	www.jazzweekly.com /reviews/cwhite_sweetest.htm (882 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Blessed with a beautiful voice and a wide range, Ella (who at this writing is retired) could outswing anyone, was a brilliant scat singer and had near-perfect elocution; one could always understand the words she sang.
		During this era Fitzgerald was essentially a pop/swing singer who was best on ballads while her medium-tempo performances were generally juvenile novelties.
		It was decided that Ella would front the orchestra even though she had little to do with the repertoire or hiring or firing the musicians.
	www.ddg.com /LIS/InfoDesignF96/Ismael/jazz/ella/eplace.html (844 words)

	scat jazz - Jazz Bulletin Board
		Ella Fitzgerald scatted a lot, and by all accounts her efforts were highly regarded by the majority of the people she encountered,..
		To me Anita O'Day is one of the major Jazz singers (whatever that is) and her scat excursions are often valid.
		Most singers (artists in any genre) strive to find their own personal sound, and in scatting, developing one's own vocabulary of sounds is part of the process.
	forums.allaboutjazz.com /showthread.php?t=4790 (1233 words)

	Betty Carter: 1930-1998
		As Betty Bebop, she also got a four-bar wordless scat break on this track -- but its impact is slight beside what she squeezed from the first measures.
		She scats with delicious, deceptively easy precision, and gives each story-song the personal spin of direct address.
		There's nary a scat solo among the 12 tracks; the focus isn't on vocal acrobatics but rather the contrast of Charles' inimitable huskiness and Carter's warmly glowing gamut.
	www.jazzhouse.org /gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=920483454 (2175 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jazz/Contemporary pianist, singer(also a scat singer), songwritter.M P was born in London in 1980.
		the nowadays famous rock singer T.K. Following a three year intensive studying, she completed her first degree in music studies and education, a diploma that is recognised and approved by the Ministry of Culture in Greece.
		She is a natural scat and harmonizing singer: In the late 90s she was in great influence of Marcus Miller and Pat Metheny.
	www.inthemixdown.co.uk /16334/index.html (576 words)

	Jazz: O'Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		One of the finest singers to emerge from the swing era, Anita O'Day at her prime was a masterful scat singer and a true improviser whose interpretations of standards uplifted and altered even the most familiar songs.
		The singer's finest recordings were for Verve during 1952-63, both with big bands and small groups.
		Anita O'Day's voice has gradually deteriorated through the years, particularly after the mid-'80s, but her prime recordings from the 1950s are quite enjoyable and rank with the best of the era.
	www.ddg.com /LIS/InfoDesignF96/Ismael/jazz/1940/oday.html (222 words)

	Barbara Adamson
		Adamson verifies her scat credentials by way of "Boblicity" and the entire set comes off without a missstep, certifying it as on of the year's most pleasant surprises.
		Forget the traditional debate among critics about who is or is not a "true" jazz singer: To my ears, singers, both live and on recordings, too often play to the gallery, and nuances of phrasing that sound inventive when they come from an instrumentalist can sound pretentious when they come from a vocalist.
		Not only is she a gifted and imaginative singer, but her creativity as an arranger also makes the most time-tested standards sound like new.
	www.barbaraadamson.com /read.html (7054 words)

	Virtual Singer : Scat Jazz
		If you enter a single word after [scat:, this word will be sung on each note of the staff.
		If between brackets you write several words separated by a semicolon, this word will be sung when the matching note pitch is found.
		in the lyrics text to get a "scat" voice depending on note pitches : C note will be sung as "Pah", C# will be sung as "Doo", D will be sung as "Bee", E will be sung randomly either as "Wah" or as "Tah"...
	www.myriad-online.com /resources/docs/manual/deutsch/vsquickscat.htm (473 words)

	Manhattan Transfer at Newport Jazz Festival, 1980, reviewed by Don Shewey
		The biggest downer was Ben Sidran, a terrible singer and mediocre pianist whose presence (i.e., his relation to Jefferson) was never explained.
		One important reason why Jefferson's innovativeness is obscured in retrospect is that the seed he planted was brought to full fruition by Jon Hendricks, whose accomplishment in writing lyrics and vocal arrangements for jazz music is unequaled.
		Bopping through the Basie band's dense block cords, half-singing and half-chanting intricately interlocking sets of lyrics, they take their tunes beyond the cosmic comedy of split-second timing and the sensual splendor of precision harmonies into the realm of hypnosis and mysticism.
	www.donshewey.com /music_articles/manhattan_transfer_jefferson.html (886 words)

	K: Chap 2
		One solution was to use the voice as an instrument - to 'scat' nonsense syllables as an onomatopoeic melodic/rhythmic parallel to the soloists lines: 'The scat singer mouths nonsense syllables...
		But several other (related) attempts were initiated by singers to assimilate the new music of modern jazz.
		improvisations are always incitements to interpretation, with mixed and unimpressive results...' (8.) I would suggest that Kerouac is improvising and 'scatting' around the sounds and rhythms that his text is generating, and attempting to notate this movement of sound down on the page for the reader to participate in the process.
	us.1.p3.geocities.com /rodandann/chap2.html (1545 words)

	SCAT Member Profile: Joanne LaRiccia
		A trained singer and student of Berklee College of Music, anyone who has ever met Joanne knows she can quickly turn everyday life into a musical, spontaneously breaking out into song during the course of a conversation.
		Her first experience at SCAT was in the 1980s when she rented out the SCAT studio facilities to produce a series of music videos.
		When asked what her dream in life is, Joanne says, “it is to leave a positive impact on the children of the world.” After all her hard work, her dream is about to come true.
	www.access-scat.org /member/profiles/lariccia.htm (608 words)

	Biography - Karrin Allyson (Bio 842) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		One of the more impressive jazz singers to emerge in the 1990s, Karrin Allyson is a great scat singer but also highly expressive on ballads.
		Upon graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1987 (and receiving a degree in piano), Allyson sang regularly at a Kansas City nightclub owned by her uncle, a locale where Allyson decided to settle down and call her permanent home base.
		Allyson's next offering, 2001's Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane, proved to be one of the most acclaimed and successful of her entire career, as it earned a pair of Grammy nominations.
	musicbase.h1.ru /PPB/ppb8/Bio_842.htm (378 words)

	CD Baby: ANNA CALLAHAN: My Ideal
		Her talents as an arranger, composer and lyricist are the undercurrents to her tidal wave of scat singing, Chet Baker-esque trumpet lines, and warm inviting voice.
		She mixes intimate vocals with Chet Baker-esque trumpet solos and dazzling scat singing over a backdrop of her own arrangements of standards and original compositions.
		Callahan demonstrated vocal gymnastics and occasional scatting around melodies with marvelous voice control, clearly in control of what she was doing.
	cdbaby.com /cd/anna (1331 words)

	Nnenna at Nungester: Grammy nominee introduces elementary students to scat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Then, using that beat, she took a familiar song like "Row, row, row your boat" to show how she could change her voice to jazz up the music to show feelings and emotions.
		Louis Armstrong was the king of scat because of the way he could imitate his trumpet."
		She began the week teaching the class about jazz and scat to prepare them for Freelon's visit.
	www.decaturdaily.com /decaturdaily/news/050218/music.shtml (411 words)

	Soul musique Funk RnB Jazz Hiphop Disco Gospel - Soul2k - Le web musique - Ella Fitzgerald
		Blessed with a beautiful voice and a wide range, Fitzgerald could outswing anyone, was a brilliant scat singer, and had near-perfect elocution; one could always understand the words she sang.
		It was decided that Fitzgerald would front the orchestra even though she had little to do with the repertoire or hiring or firing the musicians.
		For a time (December 10, 1947-August 28, 1953) she was married to bassist Ray Brown and used his trio as a backup group.
	www.soul2k.com /en/pageLibre000105a9.html (546 words)

	The Memphis Flyer: On the Job - December 4, 1997
		How else would you explain an individual whose resume reads as follows: counselor with a doctorate in psychology and several published writings, accomplished scat singer, expert Tibetan rubbing bowl player, and creator of the world’s largest balloon sculpture.
		That’s how I started scat singing, from a lack of instruments.” As bad luck would have it, it was also around that time that Weiss developed a rather serious case of arthritis.
		Clients [of mine] that know I’m a scat singer see me as having a very full life.
	www.memphisflyer.com /backissues/issue459/job459.htm (833 words)

	Virtual Singer : Scat Jazz
		In the lyrics related to a staff, you can insert invisible commands to make Virtual Singer automatically generate "scat" syllables to sing for notes not linked to a syllable in your written lyrics.
		If you write several words separated by a semicolon between the brackets, the word will be chosen based on the note pitch.
		in the lyrics text to get a "scat" voice depending on note pitches: C note will be sung as "Pah", C# will be sung as "Doo", D will be sung as "Bee", E will be sung randomly either as "Wah" or as "Tah"...
	www.myriad-online.com /resources/docs/melody/english/vsquickscat.htm (491 words)

	Mel Torme - Verve Records
		Mel Tormé (1925–99) was easily the greatest of all scat singers this side of Ella Fitzgerald.
		His career as composer took off shortly before he got his first big break as a singer: Harry James recorded his "Lament to Love" (when Tormé was fifteen), and the next year comedian Chico Marx and impresario Ben Pollack hired Tormé as boy singer for the big band they were forming.
		When Tormé disbanded the Mel-Tones for a career as a solo singer, he was, for a time, packaged as a crooning rival to Frank Sinatra, nicknamed the Velvet Fog.
	www.vervemusicgroup.com /artist.aspx?ob=pri&src=prd&aid=2717 (545 words)

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