‘The touchstone sound is hip hop, but Martin has dropped the rap for a jazz scat style which recalls British singer Cleveland Watkiss.’.
‘He was mainly influenced by sound poetry, and the scat vocals of Jazz.’.
‘The duo's scat lyrics and drum-n-bass delivery really temper the album, preventing it from becoming too soft at points.’.
‘He revealed a rougher side, first singing garbled scat vocals into his trumpet, and then using actual words, which was unexpected from an abstract act.’.
‘Discovered in Missouri, Shooby's musical style is imitating a trumpet in a bizarre improvised scat over a variety of music.’.
‘Instead of climbing back down to the seat with many grunts and exclamations, Philip stayed perched on the piano bench and started to sing scat.’.
‘Her first album was arranged by a son of Cuba's legendary scat singer and jazz trumpeter Bobby Carcasses.’.
‘He exhibited his trademark stream-of-consciousness lyrics and scat singing during solos, proving he is as original and innovative as ever.’.
‘Grant's definition indicates that scat singing, because it is not previously composed, is more directly connected to music than is vocalese.’.
‘Sharny is an accomplished and well-known jazz performer who has been singing on the Australian jazz scene since 1976, and she is renowned for her amazing scat singing.’.
‘In ‘Crootey Songo,’ Kaufman uses the techniques of scat singing to create a poem that relies heavily on sound and less on meaning.’.
‘Thus vocalese is distinctly different from scat singing both because it is arranged and composed rather than improvised, and because it relies on language rather than simply sound.’.
‘In particular the album's opening few moments feature some fairly rank scat singing which had me jumping for the skip button.’.
‘Mel Collins' squawking sax combines with Boz Burrell's scat singing on ‘Peoria’ to produce the closest they ever got to funk.’.
‘Armstrong's scat singing also influenced the singing technique of bebop innovator Dizzy Gillespie, who first began recording bebop in 1944 with saxophonist Charlie Parker.’.