Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
Vocalese is a style or musical genre of jazz singing wherein words are sung to melodies that were originally part of an all-instrumental composition or improvisation. Whereas scat singing uses improvised nonsense syllables such as bap ba dee dot bwee dee in solos vocalese uses lyrics either improvised or written and set to pre-existing instrumental solos sometimes in the form of a tribute to the original instrumentalist.