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
While speaking with The Times in his front yard on Wednesday, Johnson noticed a fresh pile of bear scat in the lawn next door.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
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
We did find mushrooms, acorns, mosquitoes, and raccoon scat cleverly concealed by pine needles.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
“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
One distinguishing feature of hunger I already knew was persistence: I, too, whenever I felt hungry, always returned to the source of food whenever I was scatted.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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
A guest appearance by the actor and clown Bill Irwin brought out the vaudevillian side of the show with scatting wordplay that involved layering syllables and some hat choreography, too.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2021
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
Okay, but after that, I'm scatting on the world, like a scoobidee doo day deeeee.
From "Sunny" by Jason Reynolds
