Another famous scat singer is Scatman Crothers who would go on to movie and television fame.

March 24 - Billy Stewart, scat singer (died 1970)

Both role models were supreme scat singers whose improvisations had the jet-propelled force of inspired instrumental solos.

Lawson, a scat singer, also appeared on Eddie Jefferson's 1977 album Main Man.

He played the conga drums and saxophone and was an inventive scat singer.

On television they watch the triplets, a trio of tall, stringy scat singers.

He is noted for his highly idiosyncratic scat style, using sounds and syllables quite unlike those used by other scat singers.

"As an improviser he shames all but two or three other scat singers and quite a few horn players as well."

The clips jump around in time, from her frisky days as a bebop scat singer under the spell of Dizzy Gillespie, to the mid-1970s.

And he was an agile scat singer, trading improvisations with a sleek jazz quintet.