scat
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“But she’s not a scat singer. She improvises more in the technique of the Baroque period, expanding and contracting phrases or adding trills that deviate from the melody.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
“And there’s lots of coyote scat — they’re just marauding around. The lizards are back and some of my roses survived.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026
Newly christened, she became known for scat singing, a vocal style that originated with ragtime - which enabled her to improvise melodies using her voice as an instrument.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025
For music, the show has an original score by the veteran trombonist Craig Harris, played by a jazz band that includes three vocalists who do sometimes scat.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
It didn’t even take that much time for me to scat back home and jump into my bedroom window.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
“I don’t know what happened,” Manley said, describing the improv session, “but I’m telling you, I blacked out and bee-bopped and scatted all over that room, like George Costanza would say.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
On “Bebop,” by his mentor Dizzy Gillespie, El’Zabar scatted the melody along with the horns.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022
After they climbed off Parker, the Sparks scatted about the court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2016
The beautiful public baths, just off Twenty-third Street on Asser Levy Place, across from Peter Cooper Village, are like a pun on the defeat of the rebel forces that scatted here, headed north.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2015
Coming out of the river bottoms, I scatted up a long hogback ridge, and broke out on top in the flats.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
One of the album’s most popular songs, “Show Me the Way,” features Mr. Frampton scatting through the talk box.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
The first rule of ZAZ-style comedy is that you can’t ever appear like you’re in on the joke, which Anderson edges close to once when she breaks into a scatting jazz number.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025
Turner’s playful scatting seems to animate Michele Byrd-McPhee’s similarly scatting feet.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
Scooby-Doo’s name came from Silverman, who had heard Frank Sinatra scatting “doo-be-doo-be-doo” on a recording of “Strangers in the Night,” and whose own name was used for Fred, the group’s ascot-wearing leader.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2020
We’ve been laying our voices down, catting and scatting, and following variations of the same notes for so long we didn’t always know we were doing it.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
