How Art Works: Scatting

Studio 360

Beeee-de-be-de-be-pode-e-ba-da-bah. No one's sure exactly how scatting --- the art of singing improvised gibberish --- began. But as Sarah Fishko reports, this purely American musical device took on a life of its own as each of the great jazz vocalists took a shot at singing free-for-all.

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