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# The jazz vocal scat soloing of Laura Anglade
- URL: https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/laura-anglade-jazz-vocal-scat-solo/
- Published: 2022-03-01T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-10T21:52:36.000Z
- Description: Laura's scat singing prowess kept me tuned in throughout each of the three numbers at a jazz student clinic.
- Author: Will Chernoff
- Tags: Free Weekly

*This is a quick follow-up to* [*The High Standards Quartet article I wrote*](https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/high-standards-quartet-blue-frog-numbers-cabaret/) *before Laura Anglade and Virginia MacDonald came touring to BC.*

**Laura Anglade** only performs vocal jazz scat solos on two tracks of her album, [*I've Got Just About Everything*](https://justin-time.com/products/ive-got-just-about-everything-2?ref=rhythmchanges.ca)*.*

On track three, "Easy Way Out", she gives a restrained and tasty solo before the saxophone solo.

Then it's all the way down to track ten, "Exactly Like You", which has the kind of arrangement that I discovered on the vocals-bass jazz duo albums of Karen Young and Michel Donato. She scats in unison with the bass, like it's a shout chorus or a transcription of a famous solo. From there, she breaks into a full-on improvisation over walking bass, and she does a great job of going from soft to strong dynamically.

But I heard Laura sing at New Westminster Secondary School, my home city school and the place where I found jazz for the first time.

At NWSS, she did a band clinic and a combination of performance and Q&A.

She sang with Virginia on clarinet beside her, and with Amanda Tosoff on piano and Jodi Proznick on bass; but also with my fellow NWSS alumnus, Tony Wang, on drums.

I heard first-hand that Laura has exceptional fundamental talent for scat singing. She performed scat solos on all three of the tunes they played:

- "Straight, No Chaser", where she was the first soloist and impressed the students over the blues; she sounded as at-ease and fun as she would have at BuckingJam Palace a couple days prior
- "I've Never Been in Love Before", where she also crafted the delivery of the lyrics in a personal way I enjoyed
- "Three Little Words", which is the closing track of her album. She didn't scat on this uptempo swing recording – featuring her band's instrumental soloists instead – but she did it fluently in this performance

I could say equally great things about the performances of Virginia, Amanda, Jodi, and Tony, but Laura's scat singing prowess kept me tuned in throughout each of the numbers. That's a cool feeling in what can sometimes be a dry academic setting.

If you will go to hear her in Victoria at the James Bay United Church on March 1, 2022, look forward to those scat solos!