Scatting

Bands such as The Boswell Sisters regularly employed scatting on their records, including the high complexity of scatting at the same time, in harmony.

For the photo to stand up in court, you have to have a picture of a bear undeniably caught in the act of “scatting”.

Megan Jakel and Jacquelin Harris gave us delightful synchronized scatting: they’ve done it before and let’s hope they’ll do it again.

Critical assessment Scat singing can allow jazz singers to have the same improvisational opportunities as jazz instrumentalists: scatting can be rhythmically and harmonically improvisational without concern about destroying the lyric.

Leo Watson, who performed before the canon of American popular music, frequently drew on nursery rhymes in his scatting.

The comparison of the scatting styles of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan reveals that Fitzgerald's improvisation mimics the sounds of swing-era big bands with which she performed, while Vaughan's mimics that of her accompanying bop -era small combos.