scat

“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

For the last decade, wildlife biologists have been using remote cameras and scat surveys to track the movements of the fox in the southern Sierra.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 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

He sprays more and more cleaner and switches the wiper speed higher and higher, but the scat stays on.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

“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

One scatted like a jazz singer, another embodied hip-hop, another the smooth and swiveling hip movements of a salsa.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 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

So they scatted out the back, Lizzie still dripping now and again.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

He plays it in a way that’s equal parts grunting and scatting and which, as Kirk biographer John Kruth has noted, was essentially adopted wholesale by rock star Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

It’s only three words, but it sends her into a tailspin of disbelief and exuberance — a sentiment Scherzinger expresses by sliding on furniture, scatting from atop a piano bench and singing while upside-down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

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

But feeling hungry myself, I reasoned that it would be pointless to waste whatever little energy I had left in scatting them away, for they would soon return.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane