Scat singing

Ella Fitzgerald is considered to be one of the greatest scat singers in jazz history^[1]

Originating in vocal jazz, scat singing or scatting is vocal improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all.^[2]^[3] In scat singing, the singer improvises melodies and rhythms using the voice solely as an instrument rather than a speaking medium. This is different from vocalese, which uses recognizable lyrics that are sung to pre-existing instrumental solos.

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[3] Edwards 2002, p. 622

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