[Dixielandjazz] What happened to Jazz?

[Mike]

I think that jazz scatting and rapping are both difficult to do 
well. A lot people can throw together a scat and almost a lot of 
people can slap together a passable basic rap lyric. But to be 
able to scat like Ella and to rap like Ice Cube or Ice-T takes a 
lot of skill.

Mike






Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis wrote:
> Well I know I might be jumping into a hornet's nest but if a person is 
> standing up improvising words to rhythm then it's a form of jazz.  It's 
> like a singer improvising scat to music.  Most would agree, I think, 
> that scat is a form of vocal jazz that doesn't even have words and may 
> even be easier to do than Rap.