In an "improvised" song with this term in the title, Jelly Roll Morton credits the Mississippi comedian Joe Simms with the invention of this technique.
In an "improvised" song with this term in the title, Jelly Roll Morton credits the Mississippi comedian Joe Simms with the invention of this technique. The "effin" improvisations of Cliff Edwards are often classified as a variation of it, and discredit stories that claim it was first used during a recording of "Minnie the Moocher" by Cab Calloway or when "Heebie Jeebies" was being sang by Louis Armstrong. FTP, Ella Fitzgerald is associated with which form of jazz singing, where the performer sings nonsense syllables in place of a song's lyrics?
In an "improvised" song with this term in the title, Jelly Roll Morton credits the Mississippi comedian Joe Simms with the invention of this technique.
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