scat singing


nounJazz.
  1. singing in which the singer substitutes improvised nonsense syllables for the words of a song, and tries to sound and phrase like a musical instrument.

Origin of scat singing

1
First recorded in 1925–30
  • Also called scat [skat] /skæt/ .

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