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

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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
His life is a triumph of improvisation. Times, Sunday Times
There follows an extended improvisation on the theme of being at sea. The Times Literary Supplement
There follows an extended improvisation on the theme of being at sea. The Times Literary Supplement
The strip reads like a casual improvisation, though beyond the unbalanced setting, there isn't much invention on display.
And in the long run the improvisation of a constitutional structure on the basis of currently perceived utility will be disastrous.
Or they make up their own dives on the spot, sometimes while in midair -- improvisation that frequently leads to the kind of painful bellyflop that causes spectators to groan with a combination of sympathy and mirth
It was a work of improvisation performed with a double quartet.
An unsatisfactory version of it appeared in 1928, without notes and edited by a descendant who "softened Cresswell's opinions and actions," according to historians Harold B. Gill Jr. and George M. Curtis III, who give us Cresswell in decidedly unsoftened form, complete with the improvisational spelling and punctuation of the time. Revolution Road Trip
Wearing trousers or trews was not contemplated hence the improvisation later.
Their enforcement of correct dance steps, which required strict tempo music, also deterred bands from jazz improvisation. The Times Literary Supplement
This leads to an extended discussion of improvisation, with particular reference to traditional jazz.
He's back with another improvisation show that combines ad-lib humor with animation.
But I liked the fact that its writer and director, Debbie Isitt, is very young, with lots of mad ideas and was up for improvisation.
Pickens had been an intense basketball then racketball player, which meant speed, fast breaks, unexpected moves, quick reflexes, and constant improvisation. The Prize
But what is free improvisation? Times, Sunday Times
This nomadic improvisation troupe takes its ad-lib comedy to movie theatres and bars.
The laid-back, improvisational weaving of the parts bore the confident mark of their maker, a choreographer in his shining prime.
There was improvisation as well as brute force and timing. The Sun
Acting: Improvisational theater is a great way to learn to step outside of your comfort zone.
A script with some rapid-fire, honed dialogue rather than corny improvisation might also have helped. Times, Sunday Times
He's back with another improvisation show that combines ad-lib humor with animation.
I wish all those kids were doing some kind of composition and improvisation as well, leavening their virtuosity with creativity.
Was all the improvisation a good grounding for a young actor? The Sun
There follows an extended improvisation on the theme of being at sea. The Times Literary Supplement
The interminable jazz improvisations have been jettisoned.
A four-part July series of Purcell Room concerts acclaiming very different pioneers of British jazz and improvisation including Soweto Kinch, the Jazz Warriors and the late Sir John Dankworth appropriately begins with the most uncompromisingly radical of musical adventurers – the improv saxophone innovator Evan Parker. This week's new live music
The show's vérité style gives it a raw feel that suits its improvisational nature.
Rip Rig created a heady hybrid out of the bare bones of jazz improvisation, dub-funk rhythms and punk attitude.
In her abstractions, she strove, like many painters of the day, to create a visual equivalent for jazz's improvisations and rhythms.
Was all the improvisation a good grounding for a young actor? The Sun
It takes five minutes to absorb the sort of movement Elkins devises: a mix of modern dance, martial arts like aikido and capoeira, hip-hop, and maneuvers from contact improvisation.
Their enforcement of correct dance steps, which required strict tempo music, also deterred bands from jazz improvisation. The Times Literary Supplement
Introducing young new audiences in Britain to the mysteries of jazz improvisation is satisfying enough for now. Times, Sunday Times
I was also struck by the obvious musical links between what these musicians were conveying in its purest form, and the roots of our own American music: the glissandos, time signatures, the improvisations; it was all there to hear and mark as building blocks of the blues. Michal Shapiro: Bards of West Africa: the Griot Summit (Video)
Yet the music is anything but predictable, and Mr. McHenry utilizes different approaches with the same group, from conventional chordal improvisation to noisier free-form pieces. The Jazz Scene: Sultry Styles and 50 Years of the Rumble
Not only was it surprisingly good with the cabbage, it positively invited improvisation, drawing to it whatever was in season or especially appealing at the produce stand.
I chose flamenco thinking it was the embodiment of wild, anarchic abandonment built on unstructured improvisational outpourings and learned that el arte is as strictly regimented as haiku. A Conversation with Sarah Bird, author of the novel The Flamenco Academy
Introducing young new audiences in Britain to the mysteries of jazz improvisation is satisfying enough for now. Times, Sunday Times
Together, they harness decades of experience in a variety of styles to make a musical statement that is rooted in tradition but with no fear of improvisation.
As usual, the Solo knack for improvisation left much to be desired.
Tracks three and four are engaging, likely highlights of improvisations, and are pieced together here for our enjoyment.
Imagine what would have happened to an album of double-digit minute solo piano improvisations in the hands of one with lesser talent.
Their wordless improvisations and clear world music influences have shattered, reconfigured and picked up lyrics, culminating in a sprawling album that comes off as some kind of art-damaged radio play.
The set is a loose, three-way group improvisation in which the leader plays an entirely collaborative part.
First up were the talents of the award-winning extempore duo and they dazzled the crowd with their improvisational skills and stinging repartee.
Most of their music was spontaneous improvisation.
And Molnár's comedies do have the most unlabored, delusively easeful air of happy improvisations.
As well as musical skills such as improvisation, arranging, composition and instrumental studies, there will also be a business element to the course which will teach students how to market themselves and put on a gig.
Saadoun says: ‘I think musicians enjoy playing with me because we do a lot of improvisation, so they can express themselves.’
Douglas in particular had a penchant for extending the limits of his instrument, using toots, whistles and breathing noises in some of his improvisational work.
Instead, its early leaders had rapidly found themselves at the head of large empires, and a great deal of improvisation had been required.
They have a distinctive rhythmic approach to their improvisations, and their compositions and arrangements make good use of the band's instrumental palate.
But what is free improvisation? Times, Sunday Times
As the hastiest of improvisations, accept -- fair reader, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
His improvisations were a great delight to me, and, finding me so appreciative, he composed a lovely set of waltzes, "_The Hospital Waltzes_," which were dedicated to me, but never published, only exquisitely written out on pieces of wall-paper by the composer. Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War
Frank and Dean, in an improvisational routine, started calling each other 'dag'. Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth
There was much improvisation in the weeks preceding the implementation of the plan, and little time to practise the landings.
Additional sessions will focus on improvisation, adult group piano study, motivating teens to continue music studies, and playing and teaching by ear.
Jazz also has a specific sound… its not just a genre that is describable as improvisation.
Once considered the poster child for the renaissance in acoustic jazz, Redman has definitely moved on, incorporating funky rhythms, electric instrumentation and more jazz improvisation into his music.
The Tambour also plays ongoing rolls at ranging speeds that provides a bass for the improvisation as a whole, as does the Triangle whose sounds are very softly present behind the entire improvisation, blending with the Cow Bell and Agogo.
The serial presentation enhanced the illusion of spontaneity and improvisation.
His aim is to make every participant in the class comfortable with each other as quickly as possible so that they can move onto improvisations and devising pieces of theatre within smaller groups.
Jazz meant improvisation, and both players and audiences experienced in it a kind of liberation. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
At the weekends he plays the accordion in an improvisation troupe. Times, Sunday Times
Moran intersperses breathtaking flights of improvisation with vamps, ostinatos, and stride techniques.
All around his steadfast melodies, Davell Crawford was a tsunami of improvisation: surging ostinatos and florid filigree, tremolo chords and keyboard-spanning glissandos, excess as exaltation. Jazzfest: More from The Stomp - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
He would improvise one layer, and then through multi-track recording, he would lay a second layer of improvisation over the first.
As part of the celebrations they staged a big, open - air multimedia event, with music, videos, poetry readings, dance and improvisations.
However, over the last decade the urge has been transformed and channeled into a highly focused, disciplined school of through-composed, what the Germans once called durchkomponiert, improvisational music.
Jazz meant improvisation, and both players and audiences experienced in it a kind of liberation. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
Having spent the last two years building the space and embracing naïveté and improvisation - letting the design of the tables "go where the wood wants to go," for example - Somer has coined the term "primitive modernism" to describe the restaurant's generally rustic look. NYT > Home Page
A script with some rapid-fire, honed dialogue rather than corny improvisation might also have helped. Times, Sunday Times
The songs on this new work combine the improvisational style of jazz, the strong melodic lines of calypso and the ethereal other-worldly trippiness of the East - often updated with new-age arrangements.
His improvisations were a great delight to me, and, finding me so appreciative, he composed a lovely set of waltzes, “The Hospital Waltzes,” which were dedicated to me, but never published, only exquisitely written out on pieces of wall-paper by the composer. Memories
The various scenes are actually improvisational sketches, with the performers working from a brief plot outline and creating their dialogue on the fly.
In the engine and battery compartments, amazing feats of improvisation were performed by electricians and engineers. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Laughed reading your comment about "improvisations"--I took piano for 11 years, but having lived for 8 years, sans piano, I've reached the playing nadir where the simplest Mozart piece sounds like weird atonal dissonance. Fixing a Hole
The organ is treated as a liturgical voice, taking up the reprise of the antiphon after each of the five psalms, and basing its improvisation on the melody of the original chant of the antiphon: canon, chorale etc,. Metropolitan Cathedral of Edinburgh
Improvisation and expression as well as musical accompaniment of the exercises plays a central role in the training programme of the Medau-Schule.
In the Toast family, each trifle is different, and improvisation is encouraged. Toast:
His own music, as most recently heard on the new double studio album, mixes freewheeling improvisation with playful swing and the occasional funky backbeat.
We used improvisation, reciting his work and mixing it with our own poems as well. Times, Sunday Times
Their dialectic is a reminder that flamenco is foremost an improvisational music, and in the hands of Morente and her collaborators remains a living, breathing tradition.
He was doing more ad-libbing and improvisation than me.
Combining elements of live improvisation with beat manipulation, Cinematic Orchestra creates soundtracks for movies that exist in some parallel universe.
Somehow while a good percentage of free jazzers in other countries appear to specialize in grim faces and toplofty attitudes, the Dutch - like the Italians - are able to add insouciance to their improvisations.
There is a lot going on, but some seat-of-the-pants improvisation and a frantic pace ensure that the attention never flags. Times, Sunday Times
Both improvisation and the musical hold the contradictory idea that spontaneous performance is available to all and that some people are more spontaneous or open than others.
The programme comprised also an improvisation on the orgue expressif Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
Central to all music from Syria and Arab countries are monophony and heterophony, vocal flourishes, subtle intonation, rich improvisation, and the Arab scales.
As with all demonstrations of dizzying artistic technique - and this goes for the most boring kind of virtuosic jazz improvisations as well - the end result is technique for its own sake. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
His life is a triumph of improvisation. Times, Sunday Times
Funds were not abundant and clever improvisation was necessary.
As part of the celebrations they staged a big, open - air multimedia event, with music, videos, poetry readings, dance and improvisations.
The work is effectively an improvisation for a large orchestra. The Times Literary Supplement
This impression is entirely consistent with the air of improvisation and sprezzatura which characterizes his whole performance. The Times Literary Supplement
Starting with in-studio improvisations and composed pieces, Swinscoe takes the finished recordings and then re-edits and remixes the sessions into new compositions.
Each was also accompanied by live musical improvisation from cellist, Anne Bourne.
The Clogs are a four-person, part-time improvisational and part-time compositional from the US and the land down under, and while their instrumentation is somewhat folk in nature, their sound is very progressive. Tuesday = Track 2 (Music (For Robots))
He started out with very strong ideas about how he wanted the narrative to run and then prepared his actors, encouraging ad-libs and improvisation throughout.
The result of this seemingly improvisational paint application is an allover, agitated, viscous surface.
Their enforcement of correct dance steps, which required strict tempo music, also deterred bands from jazz improvisation. The Times Literary Supplement
She is playing to a loyal audience here, but shows a good deal of humour and improvisation in her performance.
The complexity of the rhythmic improvisations are astonishing - the eclecticism daring and wholly convincing.
She even includes a couple of improvisations based on music by Bach and English composer William Byrd.
Six or seven were selected for a second round of improvisations, this time with Pamela playing their mother.
I'd go anywhere anytime to hear the fortepianist/harpsichordist Andreas Staier, the counter-tenor Andreas Scholl or the master of classical improvisation Robert Levin. Archive 2006-11-01
Central to the programme is a showcase of three captivating fluid dance pieces specially commissioned for the event, performed by international artists at the forefront of the Contact Improvisation scene.
Indeed, improvisation is a performer's greatest creative act.
Where common knowledge is extensive and scripting slight, there is deep improvisation; as in a rare, lively and extemporaneous debate in a social studies classroom.
He's a cunning weapon of creativity , whit, and improvisation.
The admitted class also includes published writers, an Olympic figure skater, an improvisational comedienne and a tight rope unicyclist.
The scientists found that a region of the brain known as the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a broad portion of the front of the brain that extends to the sides, showed a slowdown in activity during improvisation. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Your Brain on Jazz
Rose's dishes are all what he calls improvisations on the classics. Flora Lazar: Hardest Reservation in Paris: New Trier Grad's Restaurant
Backyard Theatre Company provides training for acting, mime and improvisation, scriptwriting, filmmaking and community drama.
The end-to-end anastomosis he cited certainly sounded like a desperate improvisation: attempting to circumvent her blocked digestive tract by taking a lower, cleared loop of bowel and hooking it up to her stomach. A Happy Marriage
He has not recorded such a consistent display of unambiguously jazzy improvisation since the mid-1970s.
Bruce indulges in some incisive improvisation, especially when dealing with the inevitable heckler.
Prior categorizations of improvisational intensity have often merged these qualities.
The next evening, in the company of a local trio, he served up the perfect blend of lyricism, improvisation, swing and team work.
Everything, even the 'improvisations' were scripted. GreenCine Daily: Césars, Razzies, etc.
Each volume of this unique jazz improvisation method includes: State of the art recordings (multi-track digital), recorded in the excellent Bauer Studios, where many of the productions for the record label ECM have been done, and in the Skyline Studios in New York City. AvaxHome RSS:
It's an improvisational, half-baked talk, and not held to the standards of proof, wholehearted conviction, or instantiation that we'd otherwise expect. Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: The Bullshit Paradox
The original sketch is only an improvisation, but with the second version begins what he calls the painful part of his labor. Criticisms and Interpretations. II. By George Pellissier
Small Hours is a sublime extended improvisation. Times, Sunday Times
Lots of interesting presentations: spoken work, poetry, industrial sound collage, improvisational film scoring.
Everybody can recognize an unfiltered sample of a jazz-record in a hip-hop track, although the sample can't reproduce the improvisations of the musician.
Jazz meant improvisation, and both players and audiences experienced in it a kind of liberation. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
Our surname, Baggio, is similarly well-suited for invention, improvisation, innovation, and fantastication: Badgee-oh; Baggy-oh; Badge-EE-oh; Bug-Eye-oh...
With their origins in guerrilla street performance and ritualistic collective improvisations staged at various Tokyo-area temples, the band's formative years seemed destined to remain in the shadows.
“I like your horizontal improvisations,” she prattled. Shortcut Man
Night after night, musicians, critics and other cognoscenti packed the club to absorb the quartet's extended ‘free jazz’ atonal group improvisations.
His work has often interrogated the boundaries between live and sequenced music; between improvisation and composition.
And improvisations are very forgiving - entered into in the spirit of ‘What's to lose?’
If improvisation exploits accident, the accident itself is often the result of luck.
He started out with very strong ideas about how he wanted the narrative to run and then prepared his actors, encouraging ad-libs and improvisation throughout.
Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations.
All aspects of the theatre will be covered including games, improvisation, script, mime, physical theatre and clowning.
His concerts are a mixture of improvisation, passion and emotion with a candid sense of humour.
He learned to play the piano by ear, developing a talent for improvisation which, years later, he would put to good use during the filming of America: A Personal History of the United States.
A Korean War veteran who emerged from the 1960s Chicago scene boosted by the activist collective Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Mr. Braxton made important albums focused on saxophone improvisation and sonic experiments with every reed instrument available, from sopranino to the contrabass saxophone. A Jazztronaut, Exploring the Spaces in Music
Learning the game with wooden rackets taught you guile and improvisation. Times, Sunday Times
For dancers aspiring to join the troupe, the audition, which is videotaped, generally consists of two parts: dance class and improvisation.
When he played his solo improvisation, on the beautiful George Gershwin melody I was truly caught up. Max Lucas: A Performance of a Life Time «
Small Hours is a sublime extended improvisation. Times, Sunday Times
The authors cite successful book and hardware stores with no rhyme or reason to the layout of merchandise, as well as inventors and scientists whose big breakthroughs came because of nonsystematic, improvisational experimenting. You Need to Get to Work!
The floats, although not many, were terrific, with some improvisation where wagons were not available.
The basso continuo, an abbreviated chordal notation, called for one or more singers to be accompanied by a single chordal instrument, while allowing for variation and improvisation in the accompanying instrumental harmonies.
JC: I suppose "inimitable" is a fair description of the kind of the associative and improvisational style of teaching and writing that I tend to do. Site Three: Use, Pedagogy, and Addiction.
They were followed by the Youth Theatre, aimed at secondary school youngsters, who showcased a variety of scripted plays and improvisations tackling social issues, along with historical dramas.
In his concerts abroad he held his aristocratic, cultivated audiences enrapt as he wove his piano improvisations.
A jazz ensemble that includes double bass, cello, and melodeon, among other strange sounds, the Kai Sextet uses traditional music from Scandinavia, Western Europe, and India as a basis for improvisation.
One of the more challenging tasks for a jazz drummer is to find a suitable role in free improvisation. Times, Sunday Times
One suspects that like his concert performances, there's a lot of improvisation and busking.
The intricacy of the music and the audacity of the joint improvisations take the explorations close to the edge, with changes of tempo and harmonies miraculously reaching resolution.
The service is fleshed out with short organ pieces and improvisations, and the plainchant used at St Mark's at Christmas; it provides the perfect framework for the music by two of the formidable masters of music at San Marco.
To stem this onrush of disastrous improvisations, conservatives need every resource of mind and heart, every good argument, every creative alternative and every bit of compassionate sympathy for the distress that is pushing Americans in the wrong direction. Sunday Reading
He sought counsel on how to do improvisational comedy.
True hunting is about improvisation, adapting and outthinking the prey. Is Shooting a Locked Buck Ethical?
Their enforcement of correct dance steps, which required strict tempo music, also deterred bands from jazz improvisation. The Times Literary Supplement
It's a mixture of electronic pieces and guitar improvisations.
In Europe, however, skills are cultivated, and creativity is stressed to young players, sort of like the improvisational freedom seen in basketball.
And in the long run the improvisation of a constitutional structure on the basis of currently perceived utility will be disastrous.
These guys have a sensitivity to the audience's ear subtleties, weaving their music and improvisations so that both audience and performer are engaged.
He is also, much less famously, an enthusiast of free musical improvisation. Times, Sunday Times
Improvisation is at odds with the legitimate caution in managerial concerns over decision making, strategy organization design, and compliance.
Their music arises from their improvisations at the keyboard, or whatever their instrument is.
Improvisation is at odds with the legitimate caution in managerial concerns over decision making, strategy organization design, and compliance.
As with a lot of all-improvisation discs, this is an element of the music too often overtaken by the fidget and bustle of ongoing events.
But there is much to enjoy here, especially Mr. Pells's zest for tying together the unlikely—as when he links Abstract Expressionism to Method acting as two forms of improvisation or when he ponders the similarities between the austerity of the International Style and the unadorned utility of a massive Wal-Mart store. Making It New in the New World
Small Hours is a sublime extended improvisation. Times, Sunday Times
The project is based primarily on improvisation and utilising ‘found sounds' and explores aspects of both minimalism and maximalism.
I particularly like to play with another musician and just have an open-ended improvisation. Times, Sunday Times
It tends to happen in ballet when landing large jumps, or in forms such as contact improvisation, in which the body twists while the foot stays in contact with the floor.
She comes from the classical tradition but is deeply involved with improvisation and had played with Bailey on several previous occasions.
Improvisation is at odds with the legitimate caution in managerial concerns over decision making, strategy organization design, and compliance.
Older groups learn about various areas of the performing arts including action, voice, movement, mime, improvisation, stage combat, circus skills, dealing with text and storytelling.
The results are exquisite-moving from ballads and other composed pieces through different grades of abstraction to total collective improvisation.
At their best they combine free improvisation with an elastic approach to standards.
We are given clear explanations of the converging styles and forms and the band's open but disciplined approach to improvisation. The Times Literary Supplement
The khyal form demands improvisational flexibility as well as careful attention to nuances of intonation, phrasing and rhythm.
Improvisational mime and innovative physical theatre tell the story of a dysfunctional family living outside the law.
Rip Rig created a heady hybrid out of the bare bones of jazz improvisation, dub-funk rhythms and punk attitude.
He is also, much less famously, an enthusiast of free musical improvisation. Times, Sunday Times
Where modeling and analysis slow things down unacceptably, intuition and improvisation must prevail.
Siblin cuts back and forth between these three narratives in a kind of dazzling verbal counterpoint, and he manages to touch on almost everything there is to know or say about Bach, ranging from the secret messages that Bach may have encoded into his compositions using the kabbalistic number symbolism called gematria to the improvisations of the Bach Remix Competition in Eugene, Ore., where "Bach's little organ fugue was mixed with hip-hop beats and spoken word by competing turntablists. Articles
Including painted patchworks of color and other collaged materials, such as silver paper and billboard scraps, the gridded compositions are essentially geometric, yet decidedly improvisational and playful.
The guitar player interluded with a beautiful improvisation
Sketch comedy, improvisation, stand-up and much more will be performed in this intimate venue on Friday, September 24.

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