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Originally Posted by OFKU0
There was a trio or quartet I heard some years ago, with male and females singers that sang bebop songs from Coltrane to Oscar Peterson. But the difference was they took the improvised lines and added words for each note mimicking the solos and made stories (dialogue) out of it. It blew me away. If I'm not mistaken they won a grammy. Don't know their name.
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This style is called '
vocalese'. The group was probably Manhattan Transfer (which is not a cappella, but vocal jazz). Jon Hendricks is one of the best at it; he writes a lot of the lyrics for Manhattan Transfer.