improvisation

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[ UK /ˌɪmpɹəva‍ɪzˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmpɹɑvɪˈzeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a performance given extempore without planning or preparation
  2. a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation)
  3. an unplanned expedient
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How To Use improvisation In A Sentence

  • Despite the fact that the soloists just use these two chords, the improvisations are melodically and rhythmically rich - a signpost of contemporary mainstream jazz.
  • A balance of storming multilinear playing suggestive of Keith Jarrett, romantic ballads and fluent improvisation, it's another acceleration in a fast-lane career that shifted from gifted student status to rising star almost overnight. This week's new live music
  • Back then, as now in his new Concord Music Group release "New Time, New 'Tet" (Amazon), I was drawn -- in his tenor saxophone improvisations and compositions -- to their flowing sense of ordered liberty, with the inner warmth of an adventurous romanticist. Benny Golson's Adventure
  • This feels like improvisation, so naturally have they found the heart of the scores and the recording is excellent as well, close without suffocating the listener or the music, detail with air around it.
  • It all seemed a little improvisational, and Bird was even deeper in absentminded professor mode than usual, which makes me wonder what happened to the rest of the band. The predatory wriggle and the friendly grin
  • Jazz musicians use collective improvisation as they play it.
  • It feels like I'm engaging with that process again, but starting from a different place, from songs and not that much improvisation.
  • All of them have found their own ways of balancing melodic invention with the dark arts of improvisation. Times, Sunday Times
  • The performances gain from free expression and improvisation and Soderbergh's habit of shooting in single takes.
  • One of the more challenging tasks for a jazz drummer is to find a suitable role in free improvisation. Times, Sunday Times
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