| At any moment he's liable to surprise you with a riff on his trumpet or break out into spontaneous scatting, tapping his foot to a mental rhythm. |
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| In doing so, he proves himself to be one of the more expressive singers around, free of melismatic acrobatics and, fortunately, scatting. |
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| This singer has a penchant for scatting and surprising material, but where he has an astonishingly pure voice, hers has more feeling. |
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| The topline acts were good, but I really enjoyed the black Brazilian woman scatting and singing jazz standards in fluent Finnish. |
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| She was a jazz singer and good at scatting and that's where I got some of my voice improvisations in terms of how to carry my voice. |
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| He was dancing in his chair and clapping and beating out rhythms in the air, singing and scatting and engaging in repartee with the performers. |
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| Nelly is a startled-looking woman in a business suit who nervously takes the microphone and begins scatting. |
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| A trademark 10-minute Booker T and the MGs-style funk jam closes the record, once some jazzy scatting is out of the way. |
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| A classically trained singer, he's comfortable with falsetto, scatting, and laying down smooth hip-hop verses. |
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| As Sclavis and Collignon explore the first of several ecstatic improvised conversations, whirling folk dances turn into warp-speed vocal scatting against electronic echoes. |
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| She put the house band's players at ease, keeping close watch over solos rather than scatting through them. |
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| The man in the video starts scatting, familiar and quaint at first but soon his voice starts evoking everything from Appalachian folk to an angel-dust fit. |
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| His repertoire includes original compositions and modern interpretations of standards, all of which are springboards for inspired improvisation, scatting, spoken word, and poetry. |
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| Joao's extraordinary expressive range reached from guttural croaks to coloratura trilling, with scatting and vocalizing in between. |
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| The general standard of trumpet technique was elevated in his wake, and he extended the range of jazz singing as well, refracting song with the nonsense syllabicity of scatting. |
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| Kem was scatting a bit Saturday night, even if he didn't quite mean to. |
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| There whooshes Frank Zappa, and here lands a sweetly scatting Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, with slaphappy bongos spilling out of old Edmundo Ros sleeves. |
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| Scatting in some West African language, and jiving across the stage, Redman showed he's the madiba of jazz. |
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