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Sunday, April 26, 2015

Jazz Appreciation Month: Scat Singing

As part of Jazz Appreciation Month, the younger grades got to read the book Freddie the Frog and the Flying Jazz Kitten.


In this story, Freddie the Frog and his best friend Eli the Elephant see a plane land on the other side of the Crocodile River. While exploring the plane that his friend was too big to board, Freddie the Frog accidentally flies away to a gig with five cool cats. The Flying Jazz Kitten helps him hold his own as she teaches him how to scat, though. Eventually he realizes that she disappeared during his performance, and he did just fine without her!

The students got to practice their own scat singing (musically making up their own nonsense syllables and sounding like instruments), and they got to hear other examples of scatting.

Here's a famous example of nonsense words, brought to you by The Muppets:

What about this famous scene between Baloo and King Louie?

Here's another example, from Ella Fitzgerald:

With some call and response added by Cab Calloway:

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