vocal jazz
Singers swinging melodies
Vocal jazz is jazz music featuring singers, distinguished from purely instrumental jazz.
The style encompasses scat singing—improvised syllables mimicking horn lines—as well as interpretations of standards from the Great American Songbook.
She studied vocal jazz at Berklee.
The term often implies sophisticated phrasing, swing rhythms, and the improvisational freedom characteristic of jazz performance.
- scat singingNonsense-syllable jazz vocals
- vocaleseLyrics set to solos
- Billie Holiday"Strange Fruit" vocalist
- torch songSentimental song of longing
- syncopationStressed unexpected beats
Ella Fitzgerald · melisma · microphone technique · chord progressions · blue note · lyricism · Nat King Cole · falsetto · Sarah Vaughan · Harlem Renaissance · phrasing · Great American Songbook · swing era · dynamic range · Louis Armstrong · vibrato · intimate · lounge
- singingsoprano, lead vocals, vocalist, alto, backing vocals
- American Singingspirituals, blues, country, gospel, barbershop
- vocal musicsong, vocals, soprano, tenor, alto
- jazzbebop, swing era, hard bop, post-bop, improvisation
- jazz singingscat singing, scat, vocalese, crooning, torch song
- Solo Vocalsa cappella, crooner, crooning, diva, belter
vocal jazzbebop
Fast, complex jazz style
hard bop · jazz fusion · post-bop · free jazz · Latin jazz
vocal jazzclassical music
Western orchestral tradition
orchestral music · chamber music · opera · art song · lieder