Here's a list I made of jazz scat words and syllables. It's not as exhaustive as I would have liked but I consulted an official* glossary for the letter Z.
Had a friend who said one time that the best one is 'shway.' Have you heard? The word is 'shway.' It's got groove, etc. He was a jazz performance major at the time, he didn't really understand postmodernism.
Uh, though I ought to defer to that kind of expertise, it faces some pretty stiff competition from, among others, 'zwee'. Don't get me wrong, it's certainly a contender. You can scat a lot of jazz with 'shway'.
Have you ever made up your own jazz scat word? If so, what was it?
Poll Results
| Option | Votes |
| Zwoot | 3 |
| Zat | 1 |
| Doo | 1 |
| Zippity | 1 |
| Zobbidy | 1 |
| Zog | 1 |
| Va | 1 |
| scoobidy | 1 |
| Zwee | 1 |
| Zwit | 1 |
| Shwee | 0 |
| Shway | 0 |
| Vwee | 0 |
| Wa | 0 |
| Wah | 0 |
| ya | 0 |
| Zee | 0 |
| Zigga | 0 |
| Zobba | 0 |
| Zoom | 0 |
| Zow | 0 |
| Zu | 0 |
| Zuzu | 0 |
| Ooh | 0 |
| n | 0 |
| La | 0 |
| Dee | 0 |
| Dah | 0 |
| buh | 0 |
| bop | 0 |
| Boo | 0 |
| Boh | 0 |
| bee | 0 |
| Bah | 0 |
| ba | 0 |
| deel | 0 |
| Det | 0 |
| Di | 0 |
| Dwee | 0 |
| Du | 0 |
| Doot-n | 0 |
| Doot | 0 |
| dool | 0 |
| Do-dat | 0 |
| Do | 0 |
| Dih | 0 |
| Diddley | 0 |
| Ah | 0 |
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