Vocalese is a style of jazz singing in which words are added to an instrumental soloist's improvisation. Vocalese uses recognizable lyrics that are sung...
Transfer is an American vocal group founded in 1969, performing a cappella, vocalese, swing, standards, Brazilian jazz, rhythm and blues, and pop music. They...
as an instrument rather than a speaking medium. This is different from vocalese, which uses recognizable lyrics that are sung to pre-existing instrumental...
an American jazz lyricist and singer. He is one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and replaces many instruments...
influential jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. She pioneered the vocalese style of jazz singing, with a style described by critic Dave Gelly as "a...
won the group its first Grammy Award, Best Jazz Fusion Performance for a vocalese version of the song "Birdland" by Weather Report. She won ten Grammy Awards...
Quartet, A Night in Copenhagen (Blue Note, 1984) The Manhattan Transfer, Vocalese, 1985 Wynton Marsalis, The Magic Hour, 2004 George Martin, In My Life,...
– March 21, 1982) was an American jazz vocalist and an early master of vocalese, where a singer sings words to a well-known instrumental solo. Born as...
by Count Basie's instrumental recording for his album April in Paris. A vocalese cover of this performance was released by The Manhattan Transfer for their...
the Spirit", vocal improvisation in a spiritual context Scat singing & Vocalese, vocal improvisation in jazz bol, kouji, beatbox, forms of vocal mimicry...
Freeloader" the hobo clown. Jon Hendricks, on the eponymous record, added vocalese-style lyrics to all of the original solos (himself singing Coltrane's part)...
mapped out the course of modern R&B, setting the bar for standards of soul vocalese and creating the original template for what we now routinely refer to as...
The Jazz Singers: A Smithsonian Collection of Jazz Vocals from 1919-1994 is a box set containing five CDs released by the Smithsonian Institution in 1998...
Alwin Lopez Jarreau (March 12, 1940 – February 12, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter. His 1981 album Breakin' Away spent two years on the Billboard...
Sublime", the greatest works of American art produced in the 20th century. A vocalese version of "Parker's Mood" was a popular success for King Pleasure.[citation...
American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition...
arrangements are often made for vocal jazz ensembles. American Jazz Singers Vocalese Scat singing "Jazz | Definition, History, Musicians, & Facts | Britannica"...
Jefferson Eddie Jefferson 9 May 1979 60 Detroit, Michigan, US Unknown Shooting Vocalese John Lennon John Lennon 8 December 1980 40 New York City, US Mark David...
several other genres. There may also be a subgenre within a subgenre such as vocalese and scat singing in jazz. In many modern pop musical groups, a lead singer...
Global Information