If you made a list of the greatest female vocalists of all time and put Ella's name at the top you wouldn't get too many arguments. And yes, the term is "scatting" and Ella was hands down the best scat singer ever.
What Ella did when she was scatting was essentially playing the instrument lead solo. Her voice was her instrument and she was arguably the best instrumentalist in that band - which was made up of legends in Jazz. Technically, the notes she hit were perfect, nuanced, virtuoso.
Ella Fitzgerald is quoting Charlie Parker “Bird” especially his song “Ornithology” based on the chord structure of “How High The Moon”. An extremely hip thing for Ella to to do. Another reason to love her forever. Marilyn Monroe loved Ella and gave her performances a boost by attending her club gigs, and sitting in the audience, every night, during a difficult period. It worked beautifully.
Listen to Ella "Queen of Skat" Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong singing "Summertime", or her and Louie Prima singing "Baby It's Cold Outside". In her slower songs her voice is as smooth as butter.
If you are exploring jazz (and I highly suggest you do) and you enjoy scat, I suggest you cover anything by Ella and Louis Armstrong. They recorded three LP's together in the late 1950's and it is as good as anything ever recorded. I'd start with "Can't We Be Friends." I'd also check out other great scatters like Mel Tormé (I'd start with "Lullaby Of Birdland"), Joe Williams ("Every Day (I Have The Blues)"), Lambert, Hendricks & Ross ("Everybody's Boppin'"), King Pleasure ("Moody's Mood For Love"), Sarah Vaughan (Doodlin') and Anita O'Day ("Tea for Two").
I've had a mad crush on Ella for decades! I first heard her do a cover of Mack The Knife, and that was it. I was head over heels. Absolute voice of an angel!
All I know is Ella once said she was thankful for scatting because she had a lot of trouble remembering lyrics. Louis Armstrong told her that during a studio session, he was reading the lyrics to a Ragtime song and when he turned the page, the words were missing. The whole band were being recorded ensemble in those days, so he carried on but was kind of fooling around by singing random syllables because he expected they'd do another take. I don't think she named the song and I don't know if she was suggesting Satchmo therefore performed the first recorded scat, but the recording is out there because the producer decided a retake wasn't necessary.
She is one of my all-time favorites. A vocal master and absolute master of scatting. So glad you have experienced this. She could listen to the band and vocalize like she was one of the band instruments.
There are good jazz singers today, of course, but Ella is unreachable. I had privilege to hear live singing of Lisa Fischer - she participated in Moscow concert of Chris Botti - and her vocal blew me out in space.
Skating is when the vocal becomes a musical instrument that solos over the track just like a sax or even a guitar solo would do. Mostly mimicking how a horn would solo.
Ella went to amateur night at the APOLLO THEATER and was going to dance, but the 2 girls before her did a dance in a way she knew she could not follow so she went out and sang......her voice can mimic any instrument in the band...and her improvs when SCATTING was so good that the musicians would come and listen to her because her improvs were great
Britt Louis Armstrong is the person who was first recorded Scat singing in the mid 20's with his Hot Five band but I can't remember the particular song. So he possibly originated it. He said that he forgot the lyrics and just improvised with meaningless syllables. He continue doing it at times. Ella started it in the late 30's with the Chick Webb band. After WW11 she picked up Bop chords etc. of the Modern #Jazz that was developing with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, etc. Ella's lovely duet version of Summertime with Louis has him scatting beautifully around Ella's singing of the lyrics. My favourite version of Summertime actually. You would definitely love it.
Thank you for this! Britt, you may be the first reactor, to review Ella Fitzgerald. She is like a musical instrument. She is one of the top American vocalists ever! And the 1970s she used to do a commercial for Memorex recording tape. And she could break a glass with her voice, and the commercial showed even that recording on their tape could break a glass as well.
Ella is my all time fave jazz singer. Check out anything she sang and you will not be disappointed. Also, she performed several duets with Louis Armstrong-one reviewer said she was a fine Cabernet and Louis was a shot of whiskey. Delicious! 🎶🍷🥃
Ella Fitzgerald is the absolute queen of jazz. Nothing compares to her voice like an ocean of cream, with all its crests and waves but all smooth and unparalleled.
Ella had such fantastic control of her instrument. She could let it rip with scat as she does here but then turn right around and cradle you into a peaceful place with a song like "This Time the Dream's On Me". Between 1956 and 1964 she recorded and released an awesome collection of what were termed Songbooks comprised of the works of eight of the most important composers or composing partners of the mid-20th Century (Cole Porter, Rogers & Hart, Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, George & Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer). Every single one a priceless gem.
At that point where you asked what “that technique” was, I believe what was going on there was she was mimicking a musician of that time named Slam Stewart. He was a bassist who often bowed his bass during solos and “sang along” with himself in a similar manner. As for the origin of scat, the story I read was that Louis Armstrong was in the middle of recording a song when a sheet with the lyrics fell on the floor, prompting him to improvise with words that weren’t really words, as Ella did here. He may have already done that sort of thing in person, but that was scat’s first appearance on record.
Ella is one of the most professional, clean singers ever. Cole Porter was in love with her diction. I love Ella, but my favorite is Billie Holiday, to whom she's often compared. Ella would professionally sing a song the same, every time, quality, consistent. Billie on the other hand, I would buy every record of hers in used record stores, even with the same song list as I already had in my collection, because she sang it different every time based on her emotions, feeling, age, etc.
I respectfully disagree. I saw one of Ella‘s last performances, and even though I know her catalog through and through, I heard her, in her failing health, sing some of her standards with tricks she hadn’t done before. I came away impressed by her endless curiosity and inventiveness. Billie and Ella are two of my favorites, so no hate here. Ms. Holiday also reworked her great hits to suit the times and her insights.
@@frankiebowie6174 That's fair, and you are probably quite right, in her advanced age. I guess it was more that Billie was almost just going performance by performance with a different pace, tone, emotion to a song seemingly with each recording, as a rule, not the exception
She is considered the "Queen of Scat". A jazz form where the singer ad libs what they feel instead of words. Her male contemporary is Mel Torme "The Velvet Fog". They did some duos. Even as she got older her talent remained.
Ella was a queen, as I’m sure someone has said Scatting was a vocalist using their voice as a instrument. The originality of each performance is a huge part of the Jazz experience. You commune with Jazz
The GASP i let out when I saw you were reacting to Ella!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍 I haven't even started the video yet, i just wanted to pop down and lyk i am SHAKING with excitement!
Also, scatting is doing a horn solo with your voice. The words mean nothing because all that's important is the melodies she's coming up with on the spot. So when she uses different syllables, it's just to add tone to her melody lines.
Oh! Fun fact! horn players are ALSO scatting when they play. Tonguing is when you use the tongue to separate notes, which basically means using T, D, L, and K sounds while playing. On top of that, different vowels shapes make different sounds depending on how high or low you're playing (generally, you use "oo" for low notes and "ee" for high notes), so horn players are actually saying things like "diddly squiddle iddle little tippity squat" while playing. if they didn't, they wouldn't be playing crisp notes and the melody would come out slurred.
So great to see a reaction to Ella Fitzgerald, one of the greatest singers ever. I would love you to also react to the 2 other giant vocalists of that period: Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughn. All 3 women have very different vocal techniques and sound. Btw, scatting is definitely an early influence on rap.
One of the most memorable concerts I saw was in '87 when Ella sang with Oscar Peterson playing the piano. She was 70 years old and still sounding incredible. I will forever cherish her version of the old tune Manhattan her version of Misty and so many more. Thanks for passing this great lady onto future generations with your video.
There is no secret language in scatting. It's just a singer imitating a musical instrument instead of singing world. It is basically like a guitar solo in the middle of a rock song - they are just doing with their voice. Imagine humming a tune to yourself, but put syllables to it.
Thank you for posting this. This is the second time I've heard Ella Fitzgerald. The first time was her duet with Karen Carpenter. This track shows why Ella Fitzgerald was looked up to by the singers who followed her. What an awesome voice!
Scatting was a jazz concept using the human voice as an instrument. There was a man named "Scatman Crothers" who sang and also acted in TV and movies...
Scat is good vocal exercise. Makes good use of vowels. If one can identify the vowels during this as well as use of ranges by using them clearly despite the speed at which it's used...that's talent. Most of us would be tripping over our tongues.
Yes. You decode her improvisation. It’s the language of Bebop Jazz. An art form stared by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Barry Harris, Sonny Stitt, and several others.
A jazz scholar has said that her vocal in this song quotes scores of jazz horn solos...I definitely hear some Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker and of course she has "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "Surrey with the Fringe on Top."
As I understand it, Scatt singing has its origins in West Africa. However, the style of singing we are accustomed to hearing, was made popular by the late great "Louis Armstrong." The origin of scatting has been lost in history although, Armstrong has long been credited with having been the inventor of the technique. As the story goes--Armstrong and his Hot Five(band) were in a recording session in Chicago in 1926, when his music stand toppled over "scattering" the sheets of music that he was about to sing. In frustration, he began to sing nonsense symbols to the tune of the song he was to record...and thus "Scatting" was born. Or so they story goes as I have read. lol 😆 Here's another suggestion to another "Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime 1968" and here's a suggestion for "Louis Armstrong - When The Saint's Go Marching In (on The Ed Sullivan Show)" I really enjoyed this lovely reaction thanx Britt.
Britt, you’re finding out why Ella Fitzgerald is known as the first lady that song. It’s jazz and, yes she is scatting; pay attention to the beats on the two and the four.
Great reaction Brit, i had the chance to attend 2 of her late concerts in Montréal, one with Oscar Peterson - Louis Bellson - Joe Pass and Ray Brown, the other one with the Count Basie Orchestra, great performances even she was almost blind and can barely move (cause diabetes). Miss her so much and i'm glad that i found Angelina Jordan who can bring back that style of music. P.S. You are my best favorite reactor.
Scatting was born out of using the voice as another instrument in the band, it’s reminiscent of soloing and improvisation in jazz, it is said to have been a creation of Louis Armstrong, but no one took it to the level that Ella Fitzgerald took it. It seem like you are becoming addicted to that era of music, which isn’t hard to become addicted to, but now it’s time you started to listen to the masters of that era, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. My favorite song of all time is Mood Indigo Duke Ellington c.1930, my grandmother had it on 78 and she had a Victrola and I almost wore it out playing it, back then records actually came in an album with sleeves to put the records, that’s why we call them albums today. My favorite jazz album of all time is “Someday My Prince Will Come”, Miles Davis c.1961, there is nothing to compare to it, be careful, you will be so addicted you may not play anything else ever again, at one time I listened to it nonstop for weeks. Mood indigo c.1930 Duke Ellington - ruclips.net/video/pJEufDSkLj4/видео.html Someday My Prince Will Come c.1961 Miles Davis - ruclips.net/video/ZSHJK8Uex80/видео.html
Wonderful. Yes it is called scatting, it is improvising with nonsense sounds instead of words. Ella was considered one of the very best. She was an awesome lady, one of those singers with a God given gift of music.
I was so happy to see you dive way back into the history of music... I'm not sure if it was the same song, but Les Paul (inventor of the modern electric guitar) and his wife Mary Ford also recorded a song called How High the Moon, definitely would like to see your review of that LIVE recording. Les Paul also invented multi-track recording, I think you would be amazed.
Scatting got started because Charlie Parker would play so fast that she would have to try to equalize him in doing so Scatt was born it was only way she could keep up with Him.... Bird Lives ❤.. Ella has such a beautiful clean voice like when u ring a crystal glass ❤ nor Whitney/Anita Baker/Mariah could shine her shoes.😊
Love me some Ella. She was a master of scat singing (among other things). Her "Song Book" recordings of composers like Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, etc. are an American treasure. As mentioned at Wikipedia: 'They are considered a cornerstone of 20th century recorded popular music, and as a whole, represent some of the finest interpretations of the greater part of the musical canon known as the Great American Songbook. Here was a black woman popularizing urban songs often written by immigrant Jews to a national audience of predominantly white Christians. As Ira Gershwin said, in the line quoted in every obituary: "I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them." Most of the rest of us didn't know, either. By the time she had gone through the entire canon, songs that had been pigeonholed as show tunes or jazz novelties or faded relics of Tin Pan Alley had become American classical music, the property and pride of everyone."'
Louis Armstrong was the original scat singer although in quite a different style than Ella. When I listen to West End Blus by Louis it brings tears to my eyes. Ella was probably the best scat singer. Other greats would include Mel Torme, and Betty Carter. The best pure singer in Jazz or any other popular music idiom in my opinion is Sarah Vaughan. Sarah could also scat, but her ability to take a note, bend and morph it and make it and anyone listening turn liquid is something you should experience.
Once in a lifetime talent! Also - try Sarah Vaughn (love her version of ‘Black Coffee’) and someone not as well-known, but listen to Shirley Horn sing ‘Here’s to Life.’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Oh scat, yes - where you treat your voice like an instrument rather than an interpreter of lyrics. Ella was an excellent scat singer. She was so much fun.
Scatting is a form of improvised jazz singing that imitates an instrumental solo. Scat uses nonsensical syllables so there is nothing to decode. But the more you are familiar with the jazz repertoire, you might catch quotes from other tunes or solos. Louis Armstrong was one of the first to popularize scat, but Ella took it to the highest levels.
Louis Armstrong was the first to record scat singing on the 1926 song Heebie Jeebies. There's a story, no one knows if its really true, that as he was singing the vocals his sheet music blew off the music stand, and he just began to improvise vocal syllables the way he would play them on trumpet. Studio time was expensive back then too, so they just left it in and didn't re-record it. So the story goes!
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If you made a list of the greatest female vocalists of all time and put Ella's name at the top you wouldn't get too many arguments. And yes, the term is "scatting" and Ella was hands down the best scat singer ever.
she is great!
I enjoyed the duet she did with Karen Carpenter on the tv special “Music! Music! Music!”. Two exceptional female singers!
Mel Torme would be a rival!
What Ella did when she was scatting was essentially playing the instrument lead solo. Her voice was her instrument and she was arguably the best instrumentalist in that band - which was made up of legends in Jazz. Technically, the notes she hit were perfect, nuanced, virtuoso.
Agreed. I think of it as the vocalist "being" an instrument, often the lead trumpet, but other instruments too.
"With a voice like Ella's ringin' out there's no way the band could lose"-Stevie Wonder
Ella Fitzgerald is quoting Charlie Parker “Bird” especially his song “Ornithology” based on the chord structure of “How High The Moon”. An extremely hip thing for Ella to to do. Another reason to love her forever.
Marilyn Monroe loved Ella and gave her performances a boost by attending her club gigs, and sitting in the audience, every night, during a difficult period. It worked beautifully.
The duets with Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong are musical heaven...
Yesss!
Absolutely!! Check out their duets "Stars Fell on Alabama" or "Moonlight in Vermont." Music doesn't get much better.
Listen to Ella "Queen of Skat" Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong singing "Summertime", or her and Louie Prima singing "Baby It's Cold Outside". In her slower songs her voice is as smooth as butter.
I totally agree
It’s a jazz horn solo played with one’s voice. Think of it like that.
I love Ella. Try her singing 'Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered'. It's incredible.
Your facial expressions are priceless.
You are the definition of what a reactor should be!! So fun to watch and interesting to hear your words of wisdom.. ❤
She is among the greatest singers of all time.
If you are exploring jazz (and I highly suggest you do) and you enjoy scat, I suggest you cover anything by Ella and Louis Armstrong. They recorded three LP's together in the late 1950's and it is as good as anything ever recorded. I'd start with "Can't We Be Friends." I'd also check out other great scatters like Mel Tormé (I'd start with "Lullaby Of Birdland"), Joe Williams ("Every Day (I Have The Blues)"), Lambert, Hendricks & Ross ("Everybody's Boppin'"), King Pleasure ("Moody's Mood For Love"), Sarah Vaughan (Doodlin') and Anita O'Day ("Tea for Two").
I've had a mad crush on Ella for decades! I first heard her do a cover of Mack The Knife, and that was it. I was head over heels.
Absolute voice of an angel!
The great Ella Fitzgerald❤. Your appreciation for all the styles of music is refreshing. It’s fun to hear your take on what you review.
All I know is Ella once said she was thankful for scatting because she had a lot of trouble remembering lyrics. Louis Armstrong told her that during a studio session, he was reading the lyrics to a Ragtime song and when he turned the page, the words were missing. The whole band were being recorded ensemble in those days, so he carried on but was kind of fooling around by singing random syllables because he expected they'd do another take. I don't think she named the song and I don't know if she was suggesting Satchmo therefore performed the first recorded scat, but the recording is out there because the producer decided a retake wasn't necessary.
She is one of my all-time favorites. A vocal master and absolute master of scatting. So glad you have experienced this. She could listen to the band and vocalize like she was one of the band instruments.
So glad you reacted to Ella this way - she was in full flight, and showed out (as usual). Ella and her music: a marriage made in Heaven!!
There are good jazz singers today, of course, but Ella is unreachable.
I had privilege to hear live singing of Lisa Fischer - she participated in Moscow concert of Chris Botti - and her vocal blew me out in space.
the greatest ever....period
Absolute freedom, but within absolute musical discipline.
Ella singing Summertime in 1968 i believe is outstanding. Just her and the trio behind her. True talent,
Skating is when the vocal becomes a musical instrument that solos over the track just like a sax or even a guitar solo would do. Mostly mimicking how a horn would solo.
Ella went to amateur night at the APOLLO THEATER and was going to dance, but the 2 girls before her did a dance in a way she knew she could not follow so she went out and sang......her voice can mimic any instrument in the band...and her improvs when SCATTING was so good that the musicians would come and listen to her because her improvs were great
Britt
Louis Armstrong is the person who was first recorded Scat singing in the mid 20's with his Hot Five band but I can't remember the particular song. So he possibly originated it. He said that he forgot the lyrics and just improvised with meaningless syllables. He continue doing it at times. Ella started it in the late 30's with the Chick Webb band. After WW11 she picked up Bop chords etc. of the Modern #Jazz that was developing with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, etc. Ella's lovely duet version of Summertime with Louis has him scatting beautifully around Ella's singing of the lyrics. My favourite version of Summertime actually. You would definitely love it.
there was absolutely nobody could hold a candle to her. never ever ever. and everyone in the business knew it.
Thank you for this! Britt, you may be the first reactor, to review Ella Fitzgerald. She is like a musical instrument. She is one of the top American vocalists ever! And the 1970s she used to do a commercial for Memorex recording tape. And she could break a glass with her voice, and the commercial showed even that recording on their tape could break a glass as well.
TwinsistheNewTrend did a Ella Fitzgerald song... but more should!!
WingsOfPegasus reacted to/analyzed Ella twice.
@@sudelaine8653 I watch Fil I need to track that one down
Ella is my all time fave jazz singer. Check out anything she sang and you will not be disappointed. Also, she performed several duets with Louis Armstrong-one reviewer said she was a fine Cabernet and Louis was a shot of whiskey. Delicious! 🎶🍷🥃
Ella is my musical GOAT. I love this woman.
Same.
Just beyond fabulous and fantastic, first you are swaying to the song and her singing; then you find yourself just sitting there simling brightly 😊
Scat singing.. simply a representation of the voice as a jazz instrumental. It started during the jazz era.
Absolutely amazing.
Think of the thousands of lucky people to hear The Queen.
Great reaction to a truest of legends.
You are spot on, Brit.
Thanks for the smile.
Ella Fitzgerald is the absolute queen of jazz. Nothing compares to her voice like an ocean of cream, with all its crests and waves but all smooth and unparalleled.
Ella had such fantastic control of her instrument. She could let it rip with scat as she does here but then turn right around and cradle you into a peaceful place with a song like "This Time the Dream's On Me".
Between 1956 and 1964 she recorded and released an awesome collection of what were termed Songbooks comprised of the works of eight of the most important composers or composing partners of the mid-20th Century (Cole Porter, Rogers & Hart, Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, George & Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer). Every single one a priceless gem.
At that point where you asked what “that technique” was, I believe what was going on there was she was mimicking a musician of that time named Slam Stewart. He was a bassist who often bowed his bass during solos and “sang along” with himself in a similar manner. As for the origin of scat, the story I read was that Louis Armstrong was in the middle of recording a song when a sheet with the lyrics fell on the floor, prompting him to improvise with words that weren’t really words, as Ella did here. He may have already done that sort of thing in person, but that was scat’s first appearance on record.
Great video I enjoyed the jazz music.Miss Ella is a classy lady have a blessed day Miss Britt.
You said it sister, Ella is good medicine. The brightest star to ever shine.
When music was an art, Ella was truly an artist.
i love that some one young can listen and react to this magical music
Ella, the one and only. Ella is recognized as one of the greatest scat singers around.... but her ballads are exquisite. "Summertime."
I love her! She is absolutely her own class 😍😍 Queen of improvisation and scatting, I don´t have words ...
Ella is one of the most professional, clean singers ever. Cole Porter was in love with her diction. I love Ella, but my favorite is Billie Holiday, to whom she's often compared. Ella would professionally sing a song the same, every time, quality, consistent. Billie on the other hand, I would buy every record of hers in used record stores, even with the same song list as I already had in my collection, because she sang it different every time based on her emotions, feeling, age, etc.
I respectfully disagree. I saw one of Ella‘s last performances, and even though I know her catalog through and through, I heard her, in her failing health, sing some of her standards with tricks she hadn’t done before. I came away impressed by her endless curiosity and inventiveness.
Billie and Ella are two of my favorites, so no hate here. Ms. Holiday also reworked her great hits to suit the times and her insights.
@@frankiebowie6174 That's fair, and you are probably quite right, in her advanced age. I guess it was more that Billie was almost just going performance by performance with a different pace, tone, emotion to a song seemingly with each recording, as a rule, not the exception
And just think... that was LIVE... no manipulation, studio tricks, auto tune... and her backing instrumentalists were SPOT ON amazing
I remember watching Ella on TV and Movies.
She is considered the "Queen of Scat". A jazz form where the singer ad libs what they feel instead of words. Her male contemporary is Mel Torme "The Velvet Fog". They did some duos. Even as she got older her talent remained.
I love your analogy: Scat is to singing as speaking in tongues is to praying
Ella is my Queen. She’s always been my favorite. She is who I tried to emulate when I was learning to scat.
Ella was a queen, as I’m sure someone has said Scatting was a vocalist using their voice as a instrument. The originality of each performance is a huge part of the Jazz experience. You commune with Jazz
The GASP i let out when I saw you were reacting to Ella!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍
I haven't even started the video yet, i just wanted to pop down and lyk i am SHAKING with excitement!
Also, scatting is doing a horn solo with your voice. The words mean nothing because all that's important is the melodies she's coming up with on the spot. So when she uses different syllables, it's just to add tone to her melody lines.
Oh! Fun fact! horn players are ALSO scatting when they play. Tonguing is when you use the tongue to separate notes, which basically means using T, D, L, and K sounds while playing. On top of that, different vowels shapes make different sounds depending on how high or low you're playing (generally, you use "oo" for low notes and "ee" for high notes), so horn players are actually saying things like "diddly squiddle iddle little tippity squat" while playing. if they didn't, they wouldn't be playing crisp notes and the melody would come out slurred.
So great to see a reaction to Ella Fitzgerald, one of the greatest singers ever. I would love you to also react to the 2 other giant vocalists of that period: Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughn. All 3 women have very different vocal techniques and sound. Btw, scatting is definitely an early influence on rap.
Ella is a once a century type of talent.
One of the most memorable concerts I saw was in '87 when Ella sang with Oscar Peterson playing the piano. She was 70 years old and still sounding incredible. I will forever cherish her version of the old tune Manhattan her version of Misty and so many more. Thanks for passing this great lady onto future generations with your video.
I saw her that same year at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC. She was near the end of her performing career and she was still incredible.
Listening to Ella is always sublime, but watching you listen to her is the cherry on top I never knew I needed lol
ARTIST AS GREAT AS ELLA DID NOT NEED WORDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is no secret language in scatting. It's just a singer imitating a musical instrument instead of singing world. It is basically like a guitar solo in the middle of a rock song - they are just doing with their voice. Imagine humming a tune to yourself, but put syllables to it.
Thank you so much for this. Hearing Ella Fitzgerald singing this absolutely made my day!
Thank you for posting this. This is the second time I've heard Ella Fitzgerald. The first time was her duet with Karen Carpenter. This track shows why Ella Fitzgerald was looked up to by the singers who followed her. What an awesome voice!
4 octave range. She was a miracle.
Scatting was a jazz concept using the human voice as an instrument.
There was a man named "Scatman Crothers" who sang and also acted in TV and movies...
Ella was the queen of scat, and in this recording she gives a masterclass!
Scat is good vocal exercise. Makes good use of vowels. If one can identify the vowels during this as well as use of ranges by using them clearly despite the speed at which it's used...that's talent. Most of us would be tripping over our tongues.
As a kid, I only knew her from the Memerex commercials, then one day I heard her sing a Stairway to the Stars and fell in love with Ella!!
When the feels are so strong you begin making up words.
Nope, it’s Bebop.
Yes. You decode her improvisation. It’s the language of Bebop Jazz. An art form stared by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Barry Harris, Sonny Stitt, and several others.
Ella was the best, the Queen of Jazz and Skat singing. After attempting to sing skat like this, my tongue would be stuck in my nose!!
Ella! Queen Ella! Yes it’s scat and she was the scat Queen! Thx so much! Love your reactions!
She is one in a million. Literally.
The first recorded Scat goes back to 1926 when Louis Armstrong forgot the words to “Heebie Jeebies” and he just started riffing on the melody.
A jazz scholar has said that her vocal in this song quotes scores of jazz horn solos...I definitely hear some Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker and of course she has "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "Surrey with the Fringe on Top."
Ella is my absolute favorite. ❤
As I understand it, Scatt singing has its origins in West Africa. However, the style of singing we are accustomed to hearing, was made popular by the late great "Louis Armstrong." The origin of scatting has been lost in history although, Armstrong has long been credited with having been the inventor of the technique. As the story goes--Armstrong and his Hot Five(band) were in a recording session in Chicago in 1926, when his music stand toppled over "scattering" the sheets of music that he was about to sing. In frustration, he began to sing nonsense symbols to the tune of the song he was to record...and thus "Scatting" was born. Or so they story goes as I have read. lol 😆 Here's another suggestion to another "Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime 1968" and here's a suggestion for "Louis Armstrong - When The Saint's Go Marching In (on The Ed Sullivan Show)" I really enjoyed this lovely reaction thanx Britt.
Ella was a master at singing and being soulful and just music!!
Saying she was great is understating it!
Britt, you’re finding out why Ella Fitzgerald is known as the first lady that song. It’s jazz and, yes she is scatting; pay attention to the beats on the two and the four.
Great reaction Brit, i had the chance to attend 2 of her late concerts in Montréal, one with Oscar Peterson - Louis Bellson - Joe Pass and Ray Brown, the other one with the Count Basie Orchestra, great performances even she was almost blind and can barely move (cause diabetes). Miss her so much and i'm glad that i found Angelina Jordan who can bring back that style of music.
P.S. You are my best favorite reactor.
Thank you for sharing this video with us.
she will get beside a sax, trumpet trombone etc etc and they will do an improve riff and she will match it and sound just like the horn
Scatting was born out of using the voice as another instrument in the band, it’s reminiscent of soloing and improvisation in jazz, it is said to have been a creation of Louis Armstrong, but no one took it to the level that Ella Fitzgerald took it.
It seem like you are becoming addicted to that era of music, which isn’t hard to become addicted to, but now it’s time you started to listen to the masters of that era, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. My favorite song of all time is Mood Indigo Duke Ellington c.1930, my grandmother had it on 78 and she had a Victrola and I almost wore it out playing it, back then records actually came in an album with sleeves to put the records, that’s why we call them albums today. My favorite jazz album of all time is “Someday My Prince Will Come”, Miles Davis c.1961, there is nothing to compare to it, be careful, you will be so addicted you may not play anything else ever again, at one time I listened to it nonstop for weeks.
Mood indigo c.1930 Duke Ellington - ruclips.net/video/pJEufDSkLj4/видео.html
Someday My Prince Will Come c.1961 Miles Davis - ruclips.net/video/ZSHJK8Uex80/видео.html
Wonderful. Yes it is called scatting, it is improvising with nonsense sounds instead of words. Ella was considered one of the very best. She was an awesome lady, one of those singers with a God given gift of music.
I was so happy to see you dive way back into the history of music... I'm not sure if it was the same song, but Les Paul (inventor of the modern electric guitar) and his wife Mary Ford also recorded a song called How High the Moon, definitely would like to see your review of that LIVE recording. Les Paul also invented multi-track recording, I think you would be amazed.
Yes, it was the same song, with a vastly-different arrangement, of course.
The Queen of Scat, absolutely fantastic!
She is from my hometown of Newport News, VA ..!
Scatting got started because Charlie Parker would play so fast that she would have to try to equalize him in doing so Scatt was born it was only way she could keep up with Him.... Bird Lives ❤.. Ella has such a beautiful clean voice like when u ring a crystal glass ❤ nor Whitney/Anita Baker/Mariah could shine her shoes.😊
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A great singer is one who can take a good song and make it great...e.g Ella Fitzgerald
ELLA THE GOAT!!!
watch her and Louis do SUMMERTIME and you will hear her extremely beautiful ballad voice.....
Love me some Ella. She was a master of scat singing (among other things). Her "Song Book" recordings of composers like Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, etc. are an American treasure. As mentioned at Wikipedia:
'They are considered a cornerstone of 20th century recorded popular music, and as a whole, represent some of the finest interpretations of the greater part of the musical canon known as the Great American Songbook.
Here was a black woman popularizing urban songs often written by immigrant Jews to a national audience of predominantly white Christians. As Ira Gershwin said, in the line quoted in every obituary: "I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them." Most of the rest of us didn't know, either. By the time she had gone through the entire canon, songs that had been pigeonholed as show tunes or jazz novelties or faded relics of Tin Pan Alley had become American classical music, the property and pride of everyone."'
Louis Armstrong was the original scat singer although in quite a different style than Ella. When I listen to West End Blus by Louis it brings tears to my eyes. Ella was probably the best scat singer. Other greats would include Mel Torme, and Betty Carter. The best pure singer in Jazz or any other popular music idiom in my opinion is Sarah Vaughan. Sarah could also scat, but her ability to take a note, bend and morph it and make it and anyone listening turn liquid is something you should experience.
Your reaction is just thrilling.....you are really really understanding, really getting into this. Bravo, lovely lady. Robert, uk.
thankyou
Best vocalist ever!
Once in a lifetime talent! Also - try Sarah Vaughn (love her version of ‘Black Coffee’) and someone not as well-known, but listen to Shirley Horn sing ‘Here’s to Life.’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I was lucky to see this old lady with thick glasses . The voice had lost nothing. It was at theLatinCasino in Cherry Hill, N.J. Late 1960’s. Magic!
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Oh scat, yes - where you treat your voice like an instrument rather than an interpreter of lyrics. Ella was an excellent scat singer. She was so much fun.
Ella was the best scat singer ever...listen to Gary Valenciano doing Spain on the Wish Bus for some incredible scat singing...
Scatting is a form of improvised jazz singing that imitates an instrumental solo. Scat uses nonsensical syllables so there is nothing to decode. But the more you are familiar with the jazz repertoire, you might catch quotes from other tunes or solos. Louis Armstrong was one of the first to popularize scat, but Ella took it to the highest levels.
Great reaction! Great choice
Louis Armstrong was the first to record scat singing on the 1926 song Heebie Jeebies. There's a story, no one knows if its really true, that as he was singing the vocals his sheet music blew off the music stand, and he just began to improvise vocal syllables the way he would play them on trumpet. Studio time was expensive back then too, so they just left it in and didn't re-record it. So the story goes!
Supposedly she reference about 40 different songs in that scat riff! Ella was one of a kind.
Nice Reaction. I am from Vienna - and i love Ella! The Lady of Sound :)