vocalese
Sign in to saveVocalese is a style of jazz singing in which words are added to an instrumental soloist's improvisation.
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It is catalogued under topics including Bebop musicians, Jazz techniques and Vocalese singers.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
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Vocalese is a style of jazz singing in which words are added to an instrumental soloist's improvisation.
==Definition== Vocalese uses recognizable lyrics that are sung to pre-existing instrumental solos, as opposed to scat singing, which uses nonsense words such as "bap ba dee dot bwee dee" in solos. In the "first wave" of vocalese creation, that sometimes took the form of a tribute to the original instrumentalist. The word "vocalese" is a play on the musical term "vocalise"; the suffix "-ese" is meant to indicate a sort of language. The term was attributed to Jon Hendricks by the jazz critic Leonard Feather to describe the first Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross album, Sing a Song of Basie.
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