In Jazz Vocalization, scat singing is vocal improvisation with nonsense words and syllables or without words at all. Scat singing gives the vocalist the ability to sing improvised melodies and rhythms, to create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using their voice.
Ella Fitzgerald singing "How High The Moon":
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She really "scats" around 1:30 into the song. Ella is the master!
The term Scat was used for jazz before the other dirty association!
1) A shorter way to say, "Get out of here!" Used as an exclamation.
2) A stuttering style used on the mike while rapping. Popularized by Scatman John.
1)
(from Jerry Maguire...well not really)
Dorothy: "I've always loved you, Jerry. You had me at hello. You...complete...me. (crying emotionally)"
Jerry: "Scat, woman! This ain't no god-damned soup kitchen! Go get your fat ass a job! I'm Tom Cruise, bitch!"
2)
"Everybody's sayin' that the Scatman stutters
But doesn't ever stutter when he sings.
But what you don't know I'm gonna tell you right now
That the stutter and the scat is the same thing.
Yo I'm the Scatman."
-Scatman John, "Scatman"
1) A type of jazz singing involving use of short (usually one syllable) words that aren't actually words, like a kind of filler.
2) Sexual activiy relating to or involving faeces
1) That Louis Armstrong is well good at scat singing.
2) My mate's into scat.