Good Recommendations For Scat Singing Please

Rose Max: Brilliant Brazilian singer

One of the few singers who could take Ella to school was the late great Qualli singer, Nusrat Fatah Khan. This is devotional music, gospel if you will. Sounds like a stretch or off topic, but if you listen you will be astonished. He released many records, but eh Real World release is readily available.

Berkbob, you're going to have to do better than that ("could take Ella to school"). How so? This is an honest question and I am genuinely interested in understanding why you feel this way. There is value in all genres; particularly ethnic music. I listened to some of Khan's music and while I can't say that I was "astounded" I heard some real vocal skill. But, "take Ella to lunch?". Man, that's quite a comment. Putting aside purely technical prowess, one of the things that made Ella great was her ability to improvise (scat) over the harmonic changes of a tune with a command of harmony and the language of jazz like that of a good instrumentalist. Khan's music is harmonically very rudimentary with no changing harmony to speak of. Please explain your comment. Regards.

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I should have been clearer in my original post.

This thread only applies to jazz singers.

Mr. Khan is not a jazz singer...any discussion of him is not relevant to this thread.
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Tania Maria - 66 year old jazz bandleader, composer, pianist and vocalist from Brazil who sings in both Portuguese and English (with a very pronounced Portuguese accent). Most of her music is very high energy, lots and lots of percussion. Her music leans a little more to the instrumental side than the vocal side but not by much.

Even if you've never heard of her, trust me, Tania Maria is a true jazz master. She has recorded about 25 albums mostly on the Concord label. She does scat quite a bit on the 4 albums I have (The Lady from Brazil, Bela Vista, Come with Me, Outrageous). The Bela Vista album would be an excellent place to start with nine tracks (2 are covers and 7 are original compositions). Every one of the nine tracks involves scat singing, some a little, some a lot.