Life's too short to pretend you like scat

Scat Free |Blogs | NCRegister.comFISHER: I once told a jazz-savvy guy how much I loved Ella Fitzgerald, except for the songs with scat singing.� He laughed, and laughed, and laughed, and laughed, and laughed.� Somewhat offended, I asked why.� It turns out that Ella Fitzgerald is especially known for her scatting -- that she's also, in fact, known as "Queen of Scat." He said that enjoying Ella Fitzgerald except for her scatting is like enjoying Rembrandt except for his painting. Well, too bad!� I don't like it.� I recognize that she's great at it, and she comes closer than anyone else� to making scat sound tolerable.� I just don't like it.� I actually tried to force myself to like scat, when I had a girl crush on my high school jazz choir director, who was a wannabe jazz singer.� I even tried singing scat (and sounded very much like a nice Catholic girl from New Hampshire trying to sing scat).� I tried and I tried, but it turns out that I just don't like it.