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And, as is common in European improvising, they went on too long.

When you weren't there to keep things in hand at the crucial moment, we had to do a little improvising.

The improvising of effective oral or written language to suit any situation.

But much of the evening's pleasure came from the freewheeling improvising.

Outside the melodies, with no chords to ground the improvising, they got out of each other's way.

They're bigger than themselves, in a sense, each representing something crucial about the jazz improvising of his time.

This is a double bill of mystical and gestural improvising.

His improvising has a rigor that makes it gleam with intelligence.

Rather, his improvising had a meditative, reticent quality that made it special.

But most important, his performance was fully humanized, the opposite of mechanical improvising.

The improvising is quite free, exploratory, and sometimes violent, although there are a few strong melodies".

Frankie did some improvising and re-created the melody to match his own style.

His improvising is so without rhetoric, and so logical, that it's almost a shock to hear.

It has brilliant, virtuosic improvising, as well, which makes it even more frustrating.

But the top-heavy dance soon came to look like last-gasp choreographic improvising.

And when she did sing ballads, which allow her to stretch out some, all her improvising didn't add up to a whole.

The band played a series of well arranged melodies only to jump off into jagged and aggressive free improvising.

His improvising is pure Tristano: long lines with hardly any riffs to charge them.

He wasn't used to this sudden improvising.

Mr. Marsalis and his band answered with a mocking section of free improvising.

"Improvising makes the experience more special for the viewer and more interesting for the performer," he said.

Neither Mr. Yaged nor the group does much creative improvising.

This music used Messiaenesque chords and contained no improvising, so it is perceived as classical, full stop.

After I had played about ninety-eight exercises I was ready to do a little improvising.

Nelson's improvising has been an indispensable ingredient.