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Jon Hendricks
Considered one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and replaces many instruments with vocalists (such as the big band arrangements of Duke Ellington and Count Basie). Furthermore, he is considered one of the best practitioners of scat singing, which involves vocal jazz soloing. Made a lot of bossanova recordings. Some of them were; Sugarloaf - Jazz Impressions Of Brazil, Brazil Blues, The Beat Of Brazil and Salud! Joao Gilberto, Originator Of The Bossa Nova (with Laurindo de Almeida on guitar)