"Even Jason Bateman was improvising — and Jennifer Aniston was improvising," she added.
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I'm just using my ears and I'm improvising nonsense syllables.
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With two leaders improvising recklessly, the risk of miscalculations rises.
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"I told her I'd play her hand," Constance says, improvising.
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These days, improvising on a football field gets you fired.
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"It's like there's something in here that's improvising," Elsie says.
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Bozinov said he doesn't plan heavily, instead improvising his shots.
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" I used to run from it, like [exaggerated sigh] "Improvising?
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Professionally comfortable with improvising, the D.J.s make for affable company.
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Portents of doom thundered from a septet of improvising trombones.
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They've got their script or will be improvising around it.
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Improvising, the sitter said just his computer and some electronics.
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And then he'd be improvising on top of his improvisation.
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Often, Ms. Moss would be beside her, improvising in dance.
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Improvising at once, they were rampant with energy, fully alive.
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In "And on the Thousandth Night …," we're improvising stories, and a lot of the fun in that piece is just watching people get trapped, improvising things that they clearly have no possibility to successfully complete.
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I love bands with improvising because it's so out of fashion.
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Sometimes you need to put your improvising skills to the test.
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When we're improvising a lot, it'll last a couple of hours.
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They wanted them interacting with one another and improvising, he said.
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To work in the park, he must be good at improvising.
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He was working from music written on notebook paper, and improvising.
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He was just improvising after he thought the song was over.
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You're improvising, but you're confined by the structures of the narrative.
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She scripts her character roleplay videos, but is also comfortable improvising.
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The song is full of esoteric references and off-kilter improvising.
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She was pushing into their improvising space, rejecting demureness or stoicism.
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He prefers improvising at a political rally to earnest policy addresses.
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Mr. Trump eschewed cue cards on set, improvising most of his lines.
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It's getting results that we wouldn't get if we were purely improvising.
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"We were improvising until two days ago," Ms. Fletcher said on Tuesday.
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At first, I was practicing guitar and learning different things and improvising.
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Were the dancers comfortable improvising and moving in such an unspectacular manner?
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I imagine a hormonal teenager, in a way, improvising at the piano.
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When I'm improvising melodies, a lot of times I'm singing random words.
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They were improvising, but there was a framework they were working within.
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By improvising, Arabs from different regions do manage to talk to each other.
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It's probably the biggest jump anyone can take as a performer, just improvising.
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So it was definitely a case of improvising every step of the way.
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Another thing to keep in mind is that real humans are constantly improvising.
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Whether physicists know it or not, they're improvising with their equations and concepts.
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Good thing that Wood is used to parachuting into unexpected conditions and improvising.
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There she started to dabble in music, improvising songs and playing Beatles covers.
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Also he's very good at improvising Star Wars scenes using tiny toy dolls.
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" Tell us how you really feel ... "They're improvising and doing last-minute planning.
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They filmed the argument several more times, improvising variations on the written dialogue.
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But soon he began to loosen up, goofily dancing and improvising a song.
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" He puts it more simply: "We've been improvising for the last twenty years.
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The singing came towards the end, with Marco, Zikiki, and Mimi improvising vocals.
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It's a young and improvising state resting atop an ancient and profound civilization.
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Along the way, he has seemed to go off-script, improvising, riffing — distracting.
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Atamanuik took several questions as Trump, improvising his answers and consistently getting laughs.
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When improvising after the melody, the jazz player must stay within these chords.
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It made me feel good about myself to practice this form of improvising.
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In music, improvising with others requires a language of musical tools and norms.
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We had the dialogue, we weren't improvising, but he just kind of kept going.
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It was really just improvising, and memorizing, and performing at my little piano recitals.
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Zachary, panics profusely at the prospect of improvising a speech, but Shitstain trusts him.
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Gunning tells a relatable story: of striving, improvising, bleeding, anything to get shit done.
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Improvising is life-changing, because it makes you a different person, a better person.
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We turned up, did three hours of improvising, and that was it, she says.
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Traditionally we cook without proper recipes on Wednesdays at Cooking, improvising off written cues.
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I may be happiest improvising the language a body can make on a dancefloor.
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Or are they musically psychic, improvising the now-famous "sha-sha-sha-shallow" harmony?
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Despite these barriers, fiber artists are improvising, purchasing yarn from other sources, and thriving.
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She paused, and looked at the sound support crew before improvising, quickly, and continuing.
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Lindsey Graham himself admitted — and has mostly improvising their messaging as they go along.
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The Necks are not improvising from existing tunes but creating from scratch, every night.
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We can only get to 50 together, and these days, we're all just improvising.
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But he strays from the truth when improvising with reporters or attacking his opponents.
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Perhaps Ms Holmes was adhering to the Valley's spirit of disruption by improvising a fix.
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It was just a good combination of me writing it and [Burr] improvising on it.
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Mr. Torrisi likes to wing it, coming up with new dishes by improvising with ingredients.
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In her piano playing, the blues, the black church, classical music and free improvising coexist.
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" The keytarist was improvising a prayer: "We praise you, God, there's no one like you.
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He suggests improvising off themes, like stir-fries, salads, braised chicken thighs or pasta bakes.
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Something else is going on; Valentin is improvising his placements, resulting in a loosened inelegance.
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He describes it as a way to exorcizes his internal political conflict by improvising with radio.
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A lot of the actors were really brilliant improvising, but some we had to write for.
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Instead, Carter was improvising, a Curb Your Enthusiasm-spirited effort without any of the intended awkwardness.
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There's improvisation in the Arabic music you play, but you're also improvising in the jazz tradition.
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Rogelio proved to be an enthusiastic and talented cook, improvising recipes around pasta, potatoes or quinoa.
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That was the spirit of making this record... Bringing people together and playing, improvising, being present.
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We also found new ways to approach improvising and turning it into structures, and vice versa.
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"Because I was already planning to come to China, to visit a friend," I said, improvising.
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"A lot of my improvising style came from my instrumental playing," he told London Jazz News.
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We were improvising off a script, but I'm just throwing out lines to make him crack.
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Improvising cleverly, she shoots a new fsociety video, outing the conspiracy and announcing their current location.
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Anna Whitehouse, 36, London, England Parenting is mainly just forgetting things and improvising as you go.
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Rosie had a knack for improvising with strangers, which she'd developed from her years on the road.
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You'll be able to see what works in what combinations and eventually start improvising off that foundation.
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Fisher brought a little bit of improvising and a lot of quirkiness to the role, Delaney says.
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That makes sense for somebody who has been improvising and jamming for as long as you have.
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For me, doing the live film scores is more about finding new situations and opportunities for improvising.
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In addition, 15 members of Constellation Chor, an improvising vocal ensemble, sing and whisper through acoustic megaphones.
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I love to play without direction when I am alone, just improvising, or even jamming with friends.
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As we all know by now, the president has a habit of rambling and improvising during interviews.
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The state is improvising new locations for beds on hospital campuses, in hotels, and on medical ships.
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That's obviously an undercurrent of the show: These lapsed gay Catholics improvising on the church's aesthetic heritage.
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Walt lost his daughter, his war buddies, his wife, and my mother, but he never stopped improvising.
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Improvising, in music, is the act of composing and performing simultaneously, and it is difficult to master.
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LINKLATER To this day, they don't really get the credit as actors because everybody thinks they're improvising.
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Well, John Legend is playing and singing, and Miles is doing some experimental improvising on the side.
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DiLiberto skipped that stage, keeping the concepts in his head and improvising physical details on the fly.
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So much of it is improvising on the fly in response to all these messages coming in.
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During the mission, however, it appears the astronauts started improvising a bit on where certain things should go.
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Like I said before, we humans are great at improvising and adapting our way out of sticky situations.
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If I'm doing anything else - which usually means there's a lot of improvising then I don't rehearse anything.
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By recovering a small practice I started in 2011, I started improvising in the street with found objects.
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Because we're improvising musicians, that tension and rift and element of not knowing brings out our highest creativity.
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The twins were used to improvising, and they decided to delay applying until their legal status was clarified.
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"I'll listen for an hour to a record of someone soloing, and I'll sing along, improvising," she said.
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Later, locked up in the studios, Vega says the three of them powered through 12 songs, improvising everything.
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" She continues, "By the time I picked up my guitar and began improvising lyrics, something had been unlocked.
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Improvising during the live show is considered highly inappropriate, as "SNL" alum Jon Rudnitsky told People this weekend.
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Ne(x)tworks, an unorthodox group of improvising composer-performers, will give its final performance on Oct. 24.
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They look delicious, and it's not hard to imagine an inventive late-night bunch improvising some of these.
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When not playing with a straight-ahead quartet, he favored chunky, percussive backdrops that offset his tuneful improvising.
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Here's what happened: I was improvising in another scene, and I made some joke about having a heart attack.
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We should expect to see more of Trump acting on instinct and improvising as he settles into the presidency.
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The folks behind the muppets noted that much of this came down to "David Rudman improvising with the character".
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That said, tinkering with good ingredients and improvising a little is the whole point of making your own cocktails.
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Then he takes tens of thousands of pictures of models, directing them to match his vision, but also improvising.
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In the clubs this creates an infectious, ceremonial feel where DJ and crowd merge, improvising purely from shared joy.
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"I use this as a basis for improvising and tailoring foods to my needs or wants," Lee says. 6.
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The improvising musician hunches over his tangible gear, the technically proficient artist uses software to construct virtual 3D animations.
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Some of the stuff that I'm messing with has to do with loops and sequences — but improvising with them.
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"The idea is that I don't have to think about it, because that would hinder my improvising," she explained.
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When not improvising in extended virtuosic riffs, he pays close attention to the lyrics of the songs he plays.
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He compared regulators' role to playing good jazz music that involves improvising, while at the same time keeping control.
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In idle moments, he hauls out the keyboard and sits alone in the back seat, his eyes closed, improvising.
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You would almost have though Mr. Frost was improvising the clarinet part from the impetuous freshness of his playing.
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Feel free to take just one cue from these ideas, improvising with what you have and what you like.
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His game film is crammed with highlights demonstrating an aptitude for improvising in the truest sense of the word.
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He reminds us that good improvising is about chance-taking and suspending disbelief as much as it's about mastery.
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They founded the organization in Woodstock as a haven for expressionist improvising and cross-pollination between global musical cultures.
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She taught me how to make bread without measuring the flour or water or yeast, to not fear improvising.
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But he scrapped his prepared remarks on Saccone, improvising and at one point handing the microphone to Saccone, too.
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I was also just really interested in doing a movie and improvising — because the entire movie is practically improvised.
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Sometimes, when you're all out of grenades, you have to do a little improvising to catch your opponent off guard.
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Like a novice cook trying to improvising soufflé, you will end up with the vape equivalent of a garbage omelette.
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Much like Alien, the best matches of Battlegrounds are about regular people somehow improvising a path through panic and danger.
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The marine mammals seem to be altering their songs each year, similar to how a jazz musician is constantly improvising.
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Do you develop the seeds of ideas when you're improvising onstage, or do you sit down and compose from scratch?
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His confusion was genuine; as Connolly put it, "Jimmy" improvising a slap, "out of all people," was an unexpected twist.
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As it coalesces, bar by bar, it appears to be improvising itself into being—which is the effect Debussy wanted.
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Mr. Brown also anchored a separate set with the keyboardist Marc Cary, improvising over rhythm loops made in real-time.
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Professionally comfortable with improvising, the D.J.s make for affable company, and it's amusing to watch radio from behind the scenes.
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To avoid getting played again, he should approach the Helsinki summit with concrete objectives to avoid improvising a costly deal.
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The amateur musicians have included Irish soccer fans singing a folk ballad, complete strangers improvising a duet, and even babies.
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Mr. López Obrador is improvising, critics say, because he had given little thought to the nuts and bolts of governing.
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Props wouldn't be brought in until tech week around May 23, so actors were improvising with preschool furniture and toys.
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" Improvising musicians are often taught to rid their minds of thoughts, which Iyer regards as "an impoverished view of thought.
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An ecumenical cellist and vocalist, Ms. Hughes ranges deftly into chamber music, indie rock, R&B and avant-garde improvising.
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Cleaver is a drummer of booming power and utter sensitivity, equally at home playing straight-ahead jazz or improvising freely.
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"When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising," he recalls.
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Thankfully, Jeff Parker released "The New Breed" last year, a dusty, dreamlike album of off-kilter beats and spacious improvising.
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The song ends back on that soaring first passage, the band playing faster now and Rigby improvising into the beyond.
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One of them, best improvised jazz solo, is for improvising, and it rewards a single musician's solo on a single track.
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To me things come out the way they come out, whether it's through improvising or writing songs as I did before.
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We still can't get the image of Stephanie (Jerrika Hinton) improvising a surgery on Erin (Darby Camp) out of our heads.
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It's a simple approach that allows even jazz novices like myself to feel like they're improvising with a degree of skill.
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" Ever the entrepreneur, she recovered, improvising by saying, "I want to leave a room and look good while I'm doing it.
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You see patterns, symmetries, geometries, but you also see hurtling force and pedestrian behavior; often these dancers might almost be improvising.
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For the most part, she's singing wordlessly, improvising like a horn, using seven syllables assigned to different parts of her range.
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Improvising keeps one alive, and at the beach you can hear the surf thump if not exult in the spindrift's curl.
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Currently touring across the country, "Many Visions" is a different show every night, with the artists improvising off their sheet music.
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I even threw in a little flour as Great British Chefs recommended, to no discernible effect, but, hey—I was improvising.
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Still in her early 40s, Lee has already had a potent influence on her fellow improvising cellists, particularly in New York.
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Jon Batiste, the musician and bandleader for "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert," began the event by improvising on a melodica.
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" Aku Kadogo, another McIntyre student, joined Shange's crew, improvising in bars then becoming an original cast member of "For Colored Girls.
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And the pianist Christian Sands, 28, a habitual McBride sideman, led his own slashing quartet, delivering airtight compositions and punctilious improvising.
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Ms. Rosenbloom, 32, recently released her third album, "Prairie Burn," a trio recording of bristling provocation and full-bore group improvising.
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Already, then, Mr. Starling is both channeling Yeats's original play and improvising, to create a remake that chases its own tail.
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" Iyer says that while improvising he makes a lot of "micro-decisions," and that each moment involves "a set of potentialities.
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The free-jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler was always working toward a personal reconciliation of gospel, traditional jazz and avant-garde improvising.
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Her improvising partners include a dancer, Satoshi Haga; a violist, Mat Maneri; a vibraphonist, Chris Dingman; and a cellist, Mariel Roberts.
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After recording his musicians improvising, the producer listened to the takes and discovered bits of melodic lines that intersected in interesting ways.
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It is still improvising solutions even as the war in Syria, which is helping to drive the exodus, looks likely to continue.
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What makes it all work, though, is that these debaters aren't merely improvising, which would have resulted in lazy comedy, at best.
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On an old cassette recorder, they listen to their younger selves improvising a routine in which they play a long-married couple.
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Bortles is terrible in the actual structure of an offense, and his best plays all come when he's improvising on the go.
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In response to the shortages, doctors in states as far-flung as California, Illinois and Alabama are improvising the best they can.
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Ellison, Morrison and García-Márquez descend straight out of Faulkner, improvising, signifying, playing the dozens and tap-dancing on his Yoknapatawpha head.
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Mr. Smythe, a pianist, and Mr. Evans, a trumpeter, are jaw-dropping virtuosos interested in both jazz improvising and new-classical exploration.
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There are passages of off-kilter swing; crunchy backbeats; and spark plug, atonal improvising — all guided by Mr. Shipp's gangly improvisational flow.
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That's what I love performing and improvising with, but it also feels good to dance to Beyoncé and the Supremes and Journey.
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Both Aldana, a tenor saxophonist, and Diehl, a pianist, are decorated young musicians with fearsome chops and deft, judicious styles of improvising.
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The ad was shot in December, Wild said, and Haddish ended up improvising a great deal based on her extensive Groupon knowledge.
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She quickly developed a distinctive method, improvising images using scores of stenciled shapes and symbols, and graffiti-like touches of spray paint.
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If it seems like Thomas is improvising, not sometimes but all the time, it's because he is, and because he has to.
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He explains how Herc's innovation led to breakdancing — literally dancing through the break — and to improvising vocal lines over the instrumentals, a.k.a. rap.
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Unfortunately, Taylor's pieces for improvising orchestra have not been recorded or distributed nearly as often as his piano solos and small-group performances.
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Going back to the music analogy, Atasoy says it's like the difference between someone playing a piece of sheet music and someone improvising.
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Certainly I saw other SXSW attendees improvising backstories to tell the knights, or quizzing northmen on Jon Snow's chances of defeating the dead.
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She pitches a tent and is improvising insulation with hay bales and cardboard when a woman sprints by, shouting that DAPL is over.
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None of which was an issue for the three improvising guitarists on the bill, each a distinct and irreducible highlight of the evening.
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Samuelsson devised this root-vegetable-centric ramen after strolling through our garden and improvising, picking up fat turnips, mushrooms, and bunches of herbs.
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Many of his best compositions are the result of long sessions spent drilling down into particular patterns, tinkering with harmonics and improvising melodies.
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And with more testimony coming out every day, GOP members of Congress will still be stuck improvising a defense as they go along.
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He thinks the young buskers playing street percussion on buckets around Chicago ought to get to know each other, possibly by improvising together.
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Mr. Ruby's constant improvising short-circuits ceramics' chronological timeline: the formed and fired clay below, the applied and fired glaze, or glazes, above.
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Three weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, people across the island, especially those in remote areas, are improvising ways to stay alive.
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That's left many private and publicly subsidised after-school care facilities, called "gakudo", improvising measures to try to stop children contracting the illness.
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If so, it might also be time to investigate some rarely heard symphonic repertoire by other improvising composers, such as James P. Johnson.
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The Vision Festival, New York's annual gathering of the improvising avant-garde, is a locus for some of the country's most unbounded musicians.
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Mr. Stevens plays the guitar with tight clutch, improvising in truncated melodies and tense, frequently beautiful harmonies that always tilt toward a payoff.
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Hospital tents were somehow staffed — as the music played, we didn't realize how much volunteering and improvising was going on behind the scenes.
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The New Ear Festival, now in its fifth year, is a weeklong showcase for improvising musicians, sound artists and performers of various stripes.
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An ever-improvising president, one who is utterly undisciplined, even to the point of undermining his own positions — that really does worry me.
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We got to do a lot of not just improvising with each other -- you've got to improvise with everything going on around you.
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His health was poor, worn down by decades of moving around — to Europe, New Mexico, New York, Nova Scotia — and improvising a life.
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Much of what they celebrated — aesthetic refinement; swing rhythm; sophisticated, blues-based improvising — was at the core of the Modern Jazz Quartet's identity.
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Hospital tents were somehow staffed — as the music played, we didn't realize how much volunteering and improvising was going on behind the scenes.
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Finally, each of these books has an elastic structure, one that allows Smith the freedom to write as if improvising a bedtime story.
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The restrictions spawned a natural curiosity in the singer, allowing Sweat$ to hone the skills he learned while improvising with songwriting as a child.
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How much of what you do are set pieces like that versus being able to read and react off the crowd, and improvising accordingly?
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It was just us and the camerapeople, and Zach and Michael were improvising while we were watching on a monitor and shouting out ideas.
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So far, Trump watchers have had a heck of time figuring out when the President-elect is improvising and when he is being calculating.
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Practice covered everything from improvising ten monologues in a row to making up a song on the spot, aided only by an improv pianist.
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Particularly when Robin Williams came on as a Martian, he was all over the place and was improvising some, and they gave him room.
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It's a five-minute song that starts to crack after two minutes, with the pianist Mike Garson's free improvising pushing it to the end.
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And after singing two verses, the singer had to start improvising after telling the crowd he didn't know any more of the song's lyrics.
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He said the FBI investigation did not come up when they were preparing for the meeting, suggesting Trump was improvising when he raised it.
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I'm interested in the kind of readiness that improvising allows, the animalistic, primal instinct of being ready for action, to tackle, grasp, respond quickly.
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Though Waka inspired the most influential ad lib, it was his Atlanta predecessors who made having a signature brand of improvising behind vocals essential.
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Oh, look: Last year's book of tunes for small jazz combo seems to have attracted some of the best improvising players in the world.
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Most jazz fans know Arts for Art for its annual Vision Festival, the banquet of avant-garde improvising that takes place downtown every spring.
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She filters the group's live playing through her surround sound-based system, as well as improvising alongside them with her long-time collaborator Ione.
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He is improvising, confusing friend and foe alike, even as he plays a perilous game of chicken with Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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Three masters of improvising minimalism — the drummer Andrew Cyrille, the trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and the guitarist Bill Frisell — convene for the first time.
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Strozzi uses the voice to create four different moods, capturing in print what was then the common practice of improvising over an instrumental accompaniment.
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You can also cultivate gravitas, Welch says, through the behaviors you avoid, like gossiping, being unprepared for meetings, interrupting others or improvising important presentations.
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Jazz Mr. Stevens plays the guitar with tight clutch, improvising in truncated melodies and tense, frequently beautiful harmonies that always tilt toward a payoff.
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A catalyst behind the transition from bebop to free jazz, he broadened the realm of possibility for his instrument, deeply influencing generations of improvising pianists.
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"Hi folks, I'm Bill Nye — you may remember me from the Science Guy show," Nye says, half reading from a teleprompter half improvising his lines.
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One week after Mr. Trump scored an upset victory that took him by surprise, his team was improvising the most basic traditions of assuming power.
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Many were also proud that the ceremony was done on a shoestring, showcasing the Brazilian talent for gambiarra, the art of improvising on the cheap.
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Though he was a skilled forger — creating passports from scratch and improvising a device to make them look older — there was little joy in it.
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Where to watch: Hulu Come Inside My Mind includes some amazing footage of a young Williams improvising as a preacher in the church of comedy.
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In class, he told her to focus on the piano, molding the songs' harmonies into her fingers and improvising new melodies on top of them.
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They mix in slipped-screen actions with brisk give-and-gos, improvising the timing and location of the exchanges mostly on feel, James tells me.
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Pictures began circulating online of people improvising face masks out of fruit rinds and cardboard—even plastic bags—as stores ran out of real masks.
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Sometimes I'm lucky enough to train with dancers I know; sometimes it's a choreographer that makes me progress; sometimes it's just me improvising for hours.
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But this all-star improvising trio — featuring the guitarist Mary Halvorson, the bassist Michael Formanek and the drummer Tomas Fujiwara — is that kind of band.
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Since 27555 it has released two thrilling albums, full of big-shouldered groove, fine-grained harmonies and frothy improvising — as well as occasional operatic vocals.
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Ms. Serpa, a Portuguese vocalist, typically sings wordless original compositions, improvising with a shapely logic that blurs the lines between what's composed and what's extrapolated.
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That is great to cook that way when you're a little jumpy and unfocused, working on a kind of autopilot, improvising as you go along.
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Since 2015 it has released two thrilling albums, full of big-shouldered groove, fine-grained harmonies and frothy improvising — as well as occasional operatic vocals.
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Walker was asked to officially open the toilets, which he did, improvising a gesture, joyful but not overly demonstrative—how did one open a toilet?
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Mr. Lage is a guitarist with spring in his step, the sort of improvising musician who radiates ease and good feeling, even on tricky terrain.
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Meanwhile, actors — or, as Khrzhanovsky calls them, "participants" — will be improvising (or perhaps, living) their Institute lives in the backstage areas of the two theaters.
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Trim, androgynous and in the buff, this enormously talented French artist makes videos that show her improvising, alone, lost in private fantasies in empty public spaces.
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He has a soft, languid tone that encompasses 20 years of full-service new saxophone improvising — precise, abstract, funky, noisy and sentimental, within the same tune.
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We have our guitars and equipment set up in our studio in Mexico City, but we were improvising and exploring throughout the compositions while on tour.
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I remember that show I went up, and there weren't a lot of people there, and I was improvising and adapting the jokes for the room.
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I produce and write music with other producers, but with vocals I'm essentially improvising all of that, besides maybe a song or two here and there.
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They're a prompt which allow the McElroys and Robinson to bounce off one another, improvising backstories for characters and conjuring running gags out of thin air.
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"Black Phase" prominently features Hecker improvising on what appears to be a distorted synth or electric piano, set against an almost viscous but uncluttered choral arrangement.
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If Uno has the talent of improvising rhymes, Emecenas has the gift of business; he knows how to sell a product and how to make money.
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On Tuesday, Mr. López Obrador rejected rising criticism that his government is merely improvising against organized crime groups, and struck a defiant tone over his approach.
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"Longer-term positive fundamentals surrounding the impact of improvising with their half a billion unique user base makes this stock … 'worth taking a shot,'" he added.
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He's treated his showmanship as his chief qualification: Improvising meant he had good instincts; insulting opponents meant he was tough; shouting meant he wasn't low-energy.
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J.P. On "Duopoly," her sharp and stimulating new album, the pianist Kris Davis engages eight different improvising musicians in duets, covering a lot of sonic territory.
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N.C. Julian Lage is a guitarist with spring in his step, the sort of improvising musician who radiates ease and good feeling even on tricky terrain.
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He was interested in a liberated approach, unconcerned with the divide between the free-improvising avant-garde and Philadelphia's more soul-adjacent straight-ahead-jazz world.
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The New School has been presenting "(Un)Silent Film Night" shows for the past few years, but never before has the event focused on improvising musicians.
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For almost 13 years, this one-room venue in Alphabet City has been New York's truest and coziest — if not its comfiest — home for experimental improvising.
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A vocal part from "Trillium" might turn up as fodder for one of Mr. Braxton's improvising trios, or in performances of his other pieces for voice.
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Like the rest of the country's noncommercial, community radio programmers, Freedman has been forced into hastily improvising a response to the growing spread of Covid-291.3.
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Whether he knew it or not, Vonnegut was improvising a self-help manual for psychic pain at a time when many young Americans needed it most.
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Led by the violist Melanie Dyer, this improvising collective performs original music that swirls together into an all-consuming flow, then becomes submerged in group play.
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She soon became a part of the loosely configured M-Base Collective, which united rhythms from across the African diaspora with a commitment to experimental improvising.
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As John explained, the typical Georgian men's choir sings in three-part harmony, with a tenor who leads the song, and two other voices improvising backup.
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JAZZ Mr. Lage is a guitarist with spring in his step, the sort of improvising musician who radiates ease and good feeling, even on tricky terrain.
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Solo travel is all about meeting strangers, going to restaurants, seeing the sites, changing plans, improvising – all on your own terms and on your own time.
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A sometime collaborator with both Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Davis, this improvising saxophonist and composer has long faced obstacles to seeing his complex notated works performed.
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Depending on what the musician heard, he or she then varied the music played in response, choosing from various composed phrases or, it sometimes seemed, improvising.
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Tony recovers an irreparably broken play, two dudes haplessly passing back and forth in the key, by improvising a quick post up move on Timofey Mozgov.
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For his exterior portrait, he used 3D scanning, but dipped himself in white clay "to mess it up a bit," then did some improvising during the shoot.
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It was fun doing Neighbors because I had an Australian accent, and it was a very relaxed atmosphere on that set because we were improvising a lot.
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The next moon mission will involve quite a few interesting pieces of hardware, though nothing is finalized yet — so you can excuse LEGO for improvising a bit.
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She then rocks out by herself, improvising cheesy dance moves (she imitates driving a steering wheel) and sinking into her living-room furniture as she lip-syncs.
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Serving jollof rice, a spicy dish native to West Africa, is one way in which KFC is improvising to win over palates in Africa's largest economy, Nigeria.
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It didn't really mean I wanted to shoot those specific images since it was all about encountering situations out of my control, or improvising with found objects.
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For a truly green Christmas there is always the option of doing away with a tree altogether and simply improvising with the plants already in your house.
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Or like Yo La Tengo, usually a rock trio, which raided the festival's broad index of performers and turned itself into a seven-piece ambient improvising ensemble.
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"This is why some clans are improvising zoning - to ensure pasture is well managed and that each member enjoys grazing rights peacefully at their territory," he said.
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A Cuban-born alto saxophonist with a thoughtful and poetic style of improvising, Mr. Filiú is known in avant-garde circles for his work with Henry Threadgill.
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You need to make those flatties with great intention, as if you were making them for the chef herself, following her instructions tightly, improvising not a whit.
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The improvising begins even before he comes out, with an M.C. bestowing a name and hometown on the fictional character based on call-outs from the audience.
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Here are two young improvising musicians and bandleaders to watch: Gray is a drummer with a busy, pattering style leavened by his awareness of space and dimension.
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He is constantly adding to his improvising playbook, incorporating new moves into an increasingly seamless expression, and fleshing out what was already an impressively ambidextrous piano style.
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In the early years, around 2004, we were improvising new recipes every day, and I could instantly tell what was working and what wasn't by watching people eat.
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Trump, a man of grammatical errors and rage, connects with voters by improvising something they perceive as authentic rather than presenting polished messages or a command of issues.
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WHEN he was doing something—simulating on paper how a computer might solve one of Euclid's theorems, say—Marvin Minsky often found himself improvising a nice little tune.
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Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon spend the entire movie enjoying amazing restaurants in the English countryside and (mostly) improvising their chats, including giving the "correct" Michael Caine impression.
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He was working outside of his comfort zone — Gondry prevented him from improvising to keep the character restrained — as the polar opposite to Kate Winslet's bright, brash Clementine.
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John Abercrombie, a jazz guitarist whose lyrical style placed him in his generation's top tier of improvising musicians, died on Tuesday in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y. He was 72.
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Should a drummer offer a sturdy baseline underneath him, or would it be wiser to match the leader's protean improvising with a dance of cymbal flutters and toms?
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The Daniels cast Alex Karpovsky (of "Girls") and Zoe Jarman (of "The Mindy Project") as Rick and Polly, and then recorded the two actors improvising off the script.
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Mr. Zorn, a saxophonist and seminal figure on New York's improvising avant-garde, has staged "Cobra" and "Hockey" — the game pieces presented here — many times through the years.
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Mr. Okazaki has been playing guitar for years alongside the alto saxophonist Steve Coleman, which is to say he's apprenticed to a doyen of experimental improvising and rhythm.
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When I moved to New York and I met the people I was improvising with, I brought all that stuff I'd been practicing into what I was doing.
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It's why some of the best shit about sports happens when athletes very briefly stop looking superhuman and are rendered, once again, recognizably human: clumsy, stupid, loafing, improvising.
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The exiled cub is then befriended by Timon (Billy Eichner, improvising amusingly) and Pumbaa (Seth Rogen), a meerkat and a warthog who escort him to their Edenic jungle home.
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It's unclear whether the US considers Bitcoin to be a security issue, or if the White House was just improvising an answer to a question it hadn't really considered.
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And his squirming style has a lot in common with that of Halvorson, the improvising guitarist (and all-purpose sound exploder) who was recently named a 2019 MacArthur fellow.
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Although the dancers (a mixture of butoh and contemporary artists) were mostly improvising, "we had provisory marks which the performers had to reach in their improvisation," Kharitonova tells Creators.
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The Dutch historian argues that improvising its way through a decade of emergencies has changed the EU. He describes these crises, and Brexit in particular, as a "Machiavellian moment".
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" Trump's team "was improvising the most basic traditions of assuming power," and "American allies were in the meantime scrambling to figure out how and when to contact Mr. Trump.
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Canned water, yogurt trucks, and free flights: Major companies across the country are improvising ways to help Houston flood victims as fallout from Harvey continues to devastate the area.
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Our sources say the joke about Crenshaw looking like a porn movie hitman was written into the script, but Pete made matters worse by improvising those last couple lines.
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It rose quietly and carefully in four-square rhythm, constructing staggered, shifting layers of patterned harmony among guitars over Mr. Fox's flow of powerful, swinging improvising over steady time.
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Wolf Eyes is essentially an improvising rock trio with crude electronics and no drummer; it has often been called a noise band, and is certainly not a metal band.
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For all their virtues, however, the 16 late paintings here are not enough to fully represent Ms. Thomas's adventurous range and her way of improvising variations on certain themes.
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We're synced together but we're still improvising with what we have and it could fall flat on its face and another time it could work—I find that exciting.
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That afternoon, the two friends arranged the pictures on Sendak's drawing table and, in a state of creative flow punctuated by wild bursts of laughter, began improvising the story.
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PARELES Jazz's quintessential Gen X piano whiz Brad Mehldau is known for lithe and crisp improvising, and for letting pop-music influences spill easily into his acoustic piano playing.
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For much of the 21s and '27s, Harris served as the guitarist in Sonny Rollins's band, while also establishing himself as a mainstay of New York's improvising avant-garde.
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Americans expend as much effort improvising ways to escape the heat of summer as they do reveling in its rituals at pools, picnics and beaches, and in outdoor activities.
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Alda says years of improvising helped him become highly attuned to cues from his scene partners, which made him better able to understand the people in his real life.
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If improvising an entire show off questionnaires full of place names and such filled out by Americans is challenging, doing so in Edinburgh is going to be downright frightening.
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Few improvising percussionists can draw such a mesmerizing range of timbres from standard equipment, and few are more skilled in using transitions and contrasts to propel a musical narrative.
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"Erdogan is improvising day by day and lacks a game plan...so the problems in Turkey can cascade," said Nihat Bulent Gultekin, a former governor of Turkey's central bank.
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He is uncommonly good at guiding and helping to sustain a group without taking up a lot of space, even in the most hot-blooded flurry of group improvising.
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I aimed to look intent on something, improvising a straight path, though all I was really looking for was an armchair where I could be alone with my phone.
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If his 40-year career is a clue, the odds are you are seeing a man who is improvising as he has throughout his long life in the public eye.
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Here, with a full band, she stretches things out further, improvising vocal lines and acting out each bar like she's running through the train of thought for the first time.
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The two make their way to the breakfast table and before the orange juice even comes around, Jack impulsively proposes to her, improvising a ring with a coiled guitar string.
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The other band members — the soprano saxophonist Matt Nelson, the bassist Brandon Lopez, the drummer Max Jaffe — strengthen and expand on her scales and melodies, improvising and following loose arrangements.
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Ms. Halpern stopped improvising years ago after experiencing hearing loss — she wears two aids — but offstage, she performs the part of the gritty old-school producer with brio and charm.
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Under its original programming, the robot was capable of improvising music as it played alongside human performers, using an "interestingness" algorithm to make sure it wasn't just copying its bandmates.
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These elements were clearly constructed to work in concert, as the enemy types push players to be on the move and constantly improvising; to stand still is to embrace death.
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The dancers, moving arms and bodies against each other, look as if they were improvising, deciding the right way to dance — a metaphor for the delicate dynamics of their relationship.
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On "Black Arthur's Bounce," Dresser pays homage as he leads his band through crooked dance grooves, well-cropped swing, riotous bursts of improvising and, finally, an almost-peaceful fade away.
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One fun hour had Emi Ferguson playing Bach's flute sonatas with a six-part continuo band, Ruckus, improvising on the figured bass, a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination.
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If you think improvising an entire show seems like a magic trick, doing it with a full band and jokes that rhyme is like making the Statue of Liberty disappear.
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The predictability of the loops brings a necessary order to the operation, like the control group in an experiment in which the guests are the ones doing all the improvising.
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It was a creative breakthrough but also a doubling down, throwing her particle-based, detail-oriented style of avant-garde improvising into conversation with a wildly diverse group of collaborators.
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On their second meeting, she said, he invited her to his suite at the Las Vegas Hilton, because he wanted her to practice improvising, even though she wasn't an actor.
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Ken NordineNordine pioneered an art form he termed "word jazz"—a stream-of-consciousness process of improvising poetry and cooly speaking it into a microphone over lively, intricate jazz music.
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And you'd better be: Whether singing a jazz standard, covering Whitney Houston in a stride-jazz style or improvising a risqué blues, he expects full-blooded participation from the crowd.
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But all of those strategies have potential weaknesses, counterplay; AoE2 is often a game of trying to push your opponent off their preferred strategy, of improvising around a specific situation.
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By his standards, these pieces aren't particularly loud or quiet, aggressive or atmospheric (usually); whether he's playing with his new band or improvising unaccompanied, tempos and textures approach the conventional middle.
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Rather than capturing particular landscapes or surreal images, as Moore has done in the past, these pieces aim to sound like a clangy, jangly indie-rock band improvising in the studio.
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While earning a degree in mathematics at Harvard he also studied music, and as an accomplished pianist, he would later delight in sitting down at one and improvising complex baroque fugues.
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Immediately I recognized the same techniques that I use to elude the stammer: pausing mid-sentence, improvising on the fly, exchanging the still unspoken word with a more easily uttered synonym.
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Players like Mahomes make that impossible by regularly improvising after the snap and cycling through the OODA loop on their own before the coaches can even orient to what's going on.
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Still, Trump rarely seems to think in terms of history and how he will be viewed in years hence, improvising short-term political decisions in preference to longer-term political plays.
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Jimmy Fallon was truly improvising at the start of the Golden Globes Sunday night ... but had to play off a technical issue at the expense of Mariah Carey as a result.
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He starts to talk, rhythmically, sometimes repeating himself, not really going anywhere, cycling through his catalog of phrases, as an improvising musician does, as a preacher does, as oral poets do. . . .
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Mr. Apfelbaum, a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist, draws influences from around the globe, typically in service of a sound that's big and sanguine and whorled — full of incisive funk and frothy improvising.
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With an acrid, lightly distorted sound and a habit of subtly stirring psychedelia and country rock into his dexterous improvising, Scofield has been one of jazz's leading guitarists since the 29595s.
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CreditCreditCharles Graham, via Louis Armstrong Archive; Nathan Bajar for The New York Times Behind his blistering trumpet solos, revolutionary vocal improvising and exuberant stage persona, how did Louis Armstrong see himself?
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It is possible, if not provable, that by showing up on the same stage repeatedly, improvising artists grow deeper and more complex, or at least remember their own standards of excellence.
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It's also something of a soft launch for Braxton75, a multiyear project that will see various classical and improvising groups performing his works ahead of his 75th birthday in June 2020.
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Propelled by an ebullient, masterly improvising style, Sean Jones stepped into the jazz spotlight 2718 years ago when he took the first-trumpet chair in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
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At the time of the Lincoln Center protest, Mr. Conrad was playing a formative role in the sound of Minimalism as a performer in the improvising ensemble Theater of Eternal Music.
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An improvising drummer and laptop musician, Mori first arrived in New York from Japan over 2212 years ago, becoming a major player on the no-wave scene centered in downtown Manhattan.
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Mr. Murray's waggish improvising and brawny tone have rarely sounded better than on last year's "Perfection," on which he performs with the pianist Geri Allen and the drummer Terri Lyne Carrington.
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Neanderthal fossils kept surfacing in Europe, and scholars like Boule were scrambling to make sense of them, improvising what would later grow into a new interdisciplinary field, now known as paleoanthropology.
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Mr. Cresswell had been the band's percussionist; since he could only carry a few small drums, he began improvising on the street, which meant he would use surrounding objects as well.
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The tenor saxophonist and flutist Anna Webber recently put out "Clockwise," an album full of atonality and friction and discomfited momentum — not to mention, some of New York's premier improvising musicians.
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As Engage, they play low-boil, medium-tempo music soaked in lovely harmonies; it's not about centrifugal motion or free improvising so much as it's about depth and connection and body.
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Her improvising, on electric or acoustic guitar, is serious business: On the title track, she fashions a solo of sleek, escalating momentum, in a style traceable to the postbop lodestar Kurt Rosenwinkel.
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Bafounga is a shining example of the "frugal innovation" movement that has its roots in India, inspired by the notion of "jugaad", a Hindi word meaning "improvising with whatever resources are available".
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But after improvising an escape by thrusting his legs off the cage and shucking off the submission attempt, Sanchez took control for the remainder of a fight largely fought on the canvas.
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While Bruner's most recent music is rooted in R&B and funk forms, his band is made of truly formidable players, and they're capable of stretching songs out through seriously impressive improvising.
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Emily and Kumail's conversations are hysterical even when they're talking about mundane matters; you can imagine the real-life Nanjiani and Gordon writing them by sitting on the couch and improvising first.
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He started improvising, going into an almost meditative state, he said, creating a sprawling four hours of score that he spent the past year writing and recording with top Hollywood studio musicians.
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Interestingly, the results are consistent with recent fMRI studies of professional artists, including jazz musicians improvising melodies, poets writing new lines of poetry and visual artists sketching ideas for a book cover.
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The coverage (and much of the reality) is a White House in chaos, and an erratic president improvising as his own policy adviser, chief of staff, comms director and tweeter-in-chief.
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This collaborative work — based on some set rules regarding cue cards, hats and headbands — involves a "prompter" (who holds all those cards), as well as improvising musicians who can "pitch" various possibilities.
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But he strays from the truth when improvising with reporters or attacking his opponents, and some of the claims he made simply aren't supported by any evidence at all, the report found.
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The Walsers were German-speaking refugees and migrants who spread south through the Alps during the Middle Ages, improvising a life style on the high terrain where nobody else farmed or lived.
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At times sounding like an improvising krautrock ensemble, the track pairs a sense of depleted psychedelia with clanging industrial hostility, getting lost in various wormholes over the course of its extended eight minutes.
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So he told "The Three Heroes and Five Gallants" to the sound guys, improvising and with lots of slang as usual, watching closely to see where they laughed, and where they dozed off.
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The private Jack Whitten, the sculptor, allowed himself to be a wanderer with no set destination, improvising with the random objects around him and imbuing them with personal, sentimental, historical, and metaphysical meaning.
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Just as his Hamlet was a familiar (if hyper-intelligent) depressive, his Iago an improvising punk, his Macbeth is a simple soldier in a brutish world, carried away by the logic of ambition.
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But the exuberance faded at Real Madrid, a club that still adheres to its notoriously garish business model, stocking its cupboard with famous players first and then improvising a system to deploy them.
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Waves form as the duo align and break, ebb and flow, as Mr. Pollini, improvising on chord clusters and stamping on the pedals, is heard from speakers behind or far from the piano.
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After awhile, they were getting more comfortable, and I was telling them to try and be as funny or as cruel as possible, so they had fun improvising on a bunch of topics.
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J.C. The improvising saxophonist and avant-garde maestro John Zorn is about to release "The Book Beriah," the third and final installment of "Masada," his 613-piece epic based on the Torah's commandments.
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Recently, Mr. Byrne became fascinated by the interface between historical repertoire and electronica, performing with amplification and live-processing software or improvising to backing tracks — projects that might make period-instrument purists recoil.
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In 1974, when Mr. Braufman was deeply embedded on New York's radical free-jazz scene, he recorded "Valley of Search," a record of darkly melodic improvising and portentous incantations and extempore group explosions.
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" The coffee shop was crowded and Ella's mood was dicey, so when the food and drinks were ready, Ms. Benanti strolled her home, improvising a song on the way: "You are so mad.
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And his adaptability in working with actor Joaquin Phoenix, tweaking scenes and improvising news ideas on set, shows an unwavering dedication to the character and to the story he is trying to tell.
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A Canadian-born tenor saxophonist on the rise in New York, Doxas boasts a tonally rich, flexible style of improvising and a willingness to blend influences from jazz, Western classical and prog rock.
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A.T. "GTM (Syntax) 2017"; Tri-Centric Vocal Ensemble (New Braxton House) A dozen vocalists riff through Mr. Braxton's pulsing "Ghost Trance Music" works, while improvising and layering other pieces atop the core material.
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Originally intended as a biopic of the theoretical physicist Lev Landau, "DAU" has ballooned into an immersive experience that includes improvising actors and live musical performances as well as 13 feature-length films.
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Because I was improvising with [the cast] and wanted to feel entirely free as this character and not let the Britishness of me get in the way, I just got rid of it.
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Some of his students — the guitarist Mary Halvorson, the cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, the saxophonist André Vida, the drummer Tyshawn Sorey — have been part of his ensembles, which range from improvising trios to orchestras.
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We were talking a lot about how a core practice of her career has been hiking through the Icelandic wilderness, and that would be her personal time when she would be singing and improvising.
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BattleTech is a great tactics game, but it might be at its very best in those moments when you're desperately improvising a new battle plan out of whatever you have left that still works.
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Clinton came off as a classically prepared debater who used Mr. Trump's record and words against him at 19 separate moments, while Mr. Trump seemed to be improvising on stage much of the time.
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The best romantic improvising in jazz has always been about understatement, and while this 45-year-old tenor saxophonist has stories of his own to tell, he lives by an old-timer's hardy ethic.
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He speaks a thoroughgoing blues language throughout, even as he's sliding in and out of key, tearing his tones, improvising in cuts against the grain and suggesting alternatives to the harmony and the rhythm.
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Over more than 20 years, the guitarist Brandon Ross, the bassist Melvin Gibbs and the drummer J.T. Lewis have developed a telepathic improvising rapport, and a group sound that's equal parts seduction and invective.
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Since the dissolution of Sam Rivers's Rivbea Orchestra, we've been low on big bands ready to mix the high-dial energy of experimental improvising with a syncretic approach to America's vast popular-music tradition.
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The problem with improvising is that it can be harder to manage when difficult situations arise, while having "a playbook" for employees to refer to, can save time and money when such circumstances occur.
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A beach, an airport, a rest stop, a graveyard, an outlet mall bathroom: These are a few of the places where the dancer Marlee Grace has filmed herself improvising during the past two years.
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Mr. Blake is both supporter and fire-starter; when Mr. Smith doubles the velocity of his improvising around 4:20, Mr. Blake finds a way to both egg him on and give him room.
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Speaking in Orlando, Florida — and mostly reading from prepared remarks rather than improvising — Trump launched attack after attack on familiar hate figures: Democrats, the "fake news," the Mueller investigators, and, of course, Hillary Clinton.
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Hauer deserves credit for this monologue in more ways than one: he famously rewrote part of the original script, improvising to give it the dramatic significance that made it a touchstone for so many people.
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At a music workshop in Tijuana last week, young beginners trained with elders in sombreros like Mr. Machucho, who comes from an august lineage and considers his knack for improvising verses "an inheritance," he said.
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Diddy walked triumphantly through the Diddy Door, a permanent entrance to the show's set designated for him—and only him—before joining the studio audience on the floor and improvising with the best of them.
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Jazz Since the dissolution of Sam Rivers's Rivbea Orchestra, we've been low on big bands ready to mix the high-dial energy of experimental improvising with a syncretic approach to America's vast popular-music tradition.
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Improvising on the ragas — the melodic germs of Indian music — that form the work's core, Anoushka Shankar, the composer's daughter and a proselytizer for his music, was a magnetic soloist, her sound sprightly and sly.
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Danielle was already up and watching the Discovery Channel, pretending to know more about sharks than the voice-over was willing to divulge, improvising facts as she went along, to make the ocean more interesting.
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"Good Time" craftily updates the Safdie template: if their early movies sometimes felt improvised, this one had evident narrative momentum, supplied by a main character who is always on the run—and, therefore, constantly improvising.
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His work, documented on hundreds of records, is full of improvising that encompasses enormous amounts of composition — often rendered in a hybrid of traditional musical notation, drawings, diagrams and, more recently, what look like subway maps.
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Today, music therapy helps people of all ages with a variety of medical issues, ranging from autism to Alzheimer's, and sessions are often uniquely individual, consisting of improvising, listening to music, singing, writing, or playing instruments.
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PARIS, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The British government was not prepared for taking Britain out of the European Union and now appears to be improvising on its Brexit policy, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said on Tuesday.
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Known for slowly and steadily improvising intricate scenes bubbling with symbolism, Ikeda sunk three years, three months, and 12 days into the work, a response to the 2011 tsunami and subsequent nuclear reactor crisis at Fukushima.
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This New Orleanian postbop pianist trained a generation of young jazz talent — including his son Wynton, the most influential improvising musician of his generation — and inspired them to fight for jazz as a proud, coherent tradition.
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His Manhattan Marathon-opening set at an intensely crowded Zinc Bar began with a rubato rumble of group improvising, connecting the John Coltrane Quartet circa "Crescent" with a looser, more wriggling group approach à la Air.
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JONATHAN FINLAYSON & SICILIAN DEFENSE "Moving Still" (Pi Recordings) Mr. Finlayson is an improvising trumpeter almost never caught off balance, and on this album he applies that poise to compositions inspired by the poetry of the chessboard.
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As if I had been waiting for a crisis moment that would force me to squeeze out of the straitjacket of the script, I immediately began improvising my own story and the other actors followed suit.
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The flutist and composer Nicole Mitchell will lead the University of Pittsburgh's storied jazz studies program, the school announced Monday, a move that quietly affirms the ascent of the improvising avant-garde in the jazz academy.
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Midway through the third story line for group B, even Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, who leads a strong cast, appeared to be fully improvising a phone conversation and close to cracking up, perhaps waiting for a cue.
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It's very fitting that the same photographer who famously "shot from the hip" also enjoys improvising on the keyboard, capturing a fleeting moment in time, knowing full well he'll be unable to recapture it ever again.
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There are plenty of projects out there attempting to replicate the locomotion of insects, but one thing that computers and logic aren't so good at is improvising and adapting the way even the smallest, simplest bugs do.
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In "Island Blues," near the end of the set, the dam broke inside Mr. Lloyd, and he began improvising voluminously, in a style influenced by John Coltrane, but shaped by his own light tone and calm temperament.
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On improvising one of the funniest moments on Sunday's episode and what Angel Theory makes of Connie and Daryl (Donnie)On the season 10 premiere, there's a moment where Daryl starts to walk towards Connie and Kelly.
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Also during the part where Lea Fabrikant records her own voice and images, everything is done on the spot, as she creates and affects visuals and sounds, composing and improvising a whole new piece before our eyes.
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Written and recorded over four days in Los Angeles with producer Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Wild Nothing), it has Baird and Lattimore experimenting and improvising in real-time over loose structures, responding to one another without overthinking.
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With Taylor on synth, a sampler and occasional vocals, the two revisited material from McFerrin's 2014 album Early Riser, improvising on compositions such as "Florasia" and "Decisions," and closing out with a recent remix for Hiatus Kaiyote.
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It was a rare institutional moment for the improvising avant-garde and maybe proof that in a moment when jazz is surging, the United States can respect its fringes on a level that only Europe historically has.
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The big picture: Privacy experts fear that we're going to keep making mistakes and improvising through crises since we haven't had a broad debate over setting boundaries around government access to personal data collected by tech companies.
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Over the last 20 years he assembled a range of quartets, often including the violinist Mark Feldman and the drummer Joey Baron, with whom he tended toward a light-footed, chamberlike approach, often moving into free improvising.
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Back in that Syrian prison, with ruthless government guards watching over them, Mr. Omari and his friends had set about quietly improvising writing materials: Small panels of fabric were cut carefully from the backs of their shirts.
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Eventually we find ourselves in a low-lit passage of collective improvising, the group's all-star musicians (the percussionist Ches Smith, the saxophonist Tony Malaby and the bassist Stomu Takeishi, among others) coalescing in a humid ecosystem.
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"Sixteen: Drummers Suite," due out later this month, is an ambitious work obliquely inspired by six of his jazz-drumming touchstones — its movements bear titles like "Elvin" and "Philly Joe" — for the improvising chamber orchestra he leads here.
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Improvising during a training session on hills, Nolting developed a technique that she calls a "hop crutch" — keeping her crutches falling at a proper momentum while maintaining a steady cadence, in a rhythm she likened to controlled falling.
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The rest of the hour was devoted to a new improvising trio (made up of self-described "old friends"), including the pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and two artists working on laptops: Ms. Gosfield and the electronic musician Ikue Mori.
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The Dutch documentarian Leonard Retel Helmrich is a bit of a mad scientist of cinematography, inventing tools, improvising equipment from household appliances, hanging cameras off fishing poles and making shots that seem to defy the laws of physics.
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The show kicks off with Emil Faltyny balancing on the free-standing ladder, an act that requires astounding discipline, but isn't much to look at, until he adds a soccer ball, improvising a lulu of a penalty kick.
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J.P. A thick splash of sound — not a warning shot so much as a call to focus — begins "Leaving Livorno," the second track on "Not Living in Fear," the sophomore album by the improvising trio Hear in Now.
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He was a guy on a stage, improvising, trying to hold the crowd, toggling between the riskier material and the easy applause lines, trying to figure out what they liked and how to give them more of it.
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And while the Jay-Z of 10 years ago would have been improvising his way through Young Thug and Playboi Carti anti-flows both as an exercise in hubris and also competitive vim, there's none of that here.
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A pianist and vocalist, Myers, 2531, was an early member of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians; she writes and performs music with hard-bound connections to gospel and blues, and an expansive approach to improvising.
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Hrgović explained that the film thus far had no official budget and that they have been improvising to put together the film's special effects, using projectors and cobbling together miniatures from random junk, using equipment they borrowed from work.
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What happened instead was a controlled experiment: 90 minutes of lulling, ambient improvising, played by the band and four others it had rounded up from the corners of the festival's aesthetic map, who hadn't played with one another before.
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In the 1960s and '70s, its music, sometimes laced with vocals and often performed in costume, proposed a form of collective free improvising that was distinctly Chicagoan: earthier and more liturgical than Ornette Coleman's, more aerated than John Coltrane's.
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An almost comical section deals with Twitter provocateur Jacob Wohl and conservative lobbyist Jack Burkman, captured by the cameras improvising allegations as they seek to impugn the reputation of special counsel Robert Mueller during a fact-free press conference.
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CARAMANICA "Ride Angles," the debut album from the drummer Sam Ospovat, features seven prismatic, oddly seductive tunes inspired by the 12-tone modern classical composers, the snarled energies of math rock and the rough-riding vigor of jazz improvising.
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" Mr. Grosvenor has seen Ms. Argerich live once, in a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in Warsaw, and he remembers her being "so entirely within the music that she could play as if improvising on the spot.
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" Improvising on her signature accordion, Ms. Oliveros worked to broaden the awareness of performers and listeners alike in her "Sonic Meditations," a set of text-based instructions like "Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.
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We are all improvising, and we are all frantically pitching tents, hoping that a provisional, adequate, pop-up America might emerge to tide us over—one that we can pack up and put away once the crisis has passed.
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This had last been clued in the puzzle in 1960, but tiskets and taskets are tacitly in the "scat" basket, Ella's specialty of improvising over jazz music, and an entry that we see in the grid all the time.
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There's more than one breath-stopping moment on "Presence," which Mr. Tyner begins and ends with passages of startling polyphony, freely improvising in gusts and riptides, flinging out lines at hyperspeed with only a distant correspondence to one another.
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When it was founded in 1983, it was innovative in the way it merged traditional second-line carnival rhythms and jazz with more recent funk, all without sacrificing the feeling that every band member was improvising all the time.
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Improvising with belts after trauma kits ran out In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, Las Vegas police handed out 2,291 tourniquets to officers in the field, which were put in all cars and motorcycles owned by the department.
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He spent his own summer holidays last week at Milano Marittima, a popular Adriatic resort, where, in bermuda shorts among the masses, he drew much criticism for his daily antics ogling female beach dancers or improvising as a disc jockey.
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Over the course of a single day, we dreamt up this cover and four interior setups, but we also created four strange short films with Will improvising the unintended consequences of jet packs, meals-in-a-pill, sexbots, and ray guns.
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But improvising as I bounce off walls and slow to a halt is much less satisfying than finally hitting that crisp varial heelfip into funbox manual with a 360-flip out that I've been trying to nail for the last hour.
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There are a lot of takes that I tend to ruin because I am laughing at something that somebody says because they are also improvising a lot — so it catches me off guard and I can't keep a straight face.
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Perhaps for that reason, the movie starts with considerable energy, peaks about halfway through, and feels as if it's padding and improvising gravity-defying threats in the last half-hour or so, though not enough to significantly offset its other charms.
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The most extreme example of location hopping is Jay Carlon's "Dance Film Selfie," which starts appealingly with him stuck overnight in a Russian airport, passing the time by improvising a dance on an escalator and sliding around the empty terminal.
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After a quick spin through Ms. Radner's well-off 1950s childhood in Detroit, Ms. D'Apolito covers the performer's major break starring in a Canadian production of "Godspell" with a wonderful audio clip of her improvising with a young Martin Short.
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Much in the way of the Tirtha trio (featuring Swaminathan's mentor, the pianist Vijay Iyer) and the Indo-Pak Coalition before her, Swaminathan lets jazz and Indian classical merge organically, through her writing and the skill sets of her improvising partners.
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Which is to say, it's a good place to start if you're going to listen to "Metal Aether," the forthcoming album from Ms. Bertucci, an improvising alto saxophonist and composer and whose music is a kind of scientific sound poetry.
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Mr. Cannon, the improvising house-host in Chico, said he hopes within the next few weeks to have a new space in a previously unfinished outbuilding in the backyard ready for habitation by even more of those who need it.
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Decades before hip-hop was the dominant influence on American popular culture, it was the work of Bronx teenagers gathering in parks, recreation centers and clubs and improvising a new approach to music by jury-rigging old records and technology.
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Though a soft barrier has always existed between improvising instrumentalists and vocalists, Winter Jazzfest has served for years as a reminder that some of the boldest new work has to do with singing, storytelling and manipulations of the human voice.
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These systems were the subject of a 2014 New York Times article, which detailed how algorithmic scheduling turned one Starbucks worker's life into an intricate scheduling ballet, improvising childcare with "on-call" shifts being added same-day or dropped mid-shift.
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Mr. Rudd's earliest musical influences came from his family: his paternal grandmother, who led her Methodist church choir and had a knack for improvising; and his father, a collector of jazz records and a recreational drummer who hosted jam sessions.
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If you had the good fortune to grow up in Manhattan, you'd probably fondly recall seeing kids turn a broom into a bat before knocking a ball around, improvising a strike zone with chalk on the wall behind the batter.
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Much has been made of the way the writers of Breaking Bad — which debuted to modest ratings on January 20, 2008, before growing into one of the defining shows of its era — wrote themselves into corners, before improvising their way out.
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Some scientists even embrace a kind of "free jazz" method, he said, improvising as they go along: "I've heard of people getting good results after accidentally dropping their experimental preparations on the floor, picking them up, and working on them nonetheless," he added.
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The childrenwho were usually so naughty, always playing tricks, improvising football games, and fighting wars on Eid with made-in-China squirt guns, now sat in an obedient row, frozen in fear, while my sisters stroked their heads and told them reassuring lies.
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Zenovich makes the excellent decision to keep the film clips to a minimum, and instead to focus on harder-to-find footage: Williams goofing around with his Julliard class, improvising at Comedy Relief, or playing to an immense crowd on a USO tour.
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We have years to learn cause and effect, to gather and put together visual clues to create a map of the world and so on — for robots and AI, it has to be created from scratch (and they're not good at improvising).
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" (Carter himself was sitting off to the side, getting his neck and shoulders rubbed by one of the extras.) But then Wright went off script, and Durham, with an odd smile, began calmly improvising proverbs and threats: "You want the velvet glove?
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In a video report on a wedding she was covering in Ottignies, Belgium, the town where she grew up, she wears a bright yellow-green outfit and big hoop earnings, smiling widely and mingling with guests, improvising as she works the room.
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This track comes from a raucous dance hall scene, with a young Bolden and his band kicking up dust before a rapturous crowd, four horns improvising in a gallivanting tangle over a funky rhythm, always landing on the downbeat with a vigorous thump.
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But he knows a good thing when he's got it, so he has spent the past few years deepening his creative relationship with Saul Williams, a poet whose masterful volatility and political acumen make an excellent match for Murray's incendiary improvising style.
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Katie Cox, a New York freelancer, put up a game fight, improvising in what she took to be the manner of Cage, mostly abandoning long lines in favor of fragmentary phrases, using extended techniques to produce everything from mere hoarse breaths to yelps.
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The group, an unorthodox cadre of improvising composer-performers, included Ms. La Barbara and two of her "When Morty Met John" associates, the violinist Cornelius Dufallo and the violist Kenji Bunch, as well as the trombonist Christopher McIntyre and the pianist Stephen Gosling.
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On "Trio+," his new album, Marcus's burly projection and loose-cannon improvising style make the case for him on their own — especially on high-velocity burners like "Neophilia," a cover of this lesser-known jazz classic by the storied bass clarinetist Bennie Maupin.
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Jazz stuck to its own steadfast devices this year, though that hardly meant sitting still: Improvising musicians are increasingly dissolving the membranes separating storytelling, composition, live performance and visual art; the music's death-defying, ever-diversifying present is a place of vast possibility.
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In a post on Twitter responding to Mr. Trump's insult on Sunday, Mr. Cuban shared a letter he had written to the president during his campaign last year, in which he advised Mr. Trump to drill down on policy specifics instead of improvising.
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One of the latest is Ms. Jonas's "Reanimation," a majestic yet intimate video-sculpture installation that mixes Arctic landscapes, folk tales, music (by Jason Moran), moving lights and hanging glass, along with views of the artist's hands, improvising art for the camera.
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They focused on humor, which made sense for them, and on improvising scenes with the star Alden Ehrenreich, which makes a modicum of sense for Solo (after all, Harrison Ford did come up with his most famous line — "I know" — pretty much on the fly).
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In a version of the Beach Boys' "In My Room" — a secular hymn, basically — Mr. Lloyd played the vocal melody straight, without much improvising; the rest of the band, subsequently taking the song apart a bit more, managed to get all the way inside it.
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" The episode featured Sonic Youth and Peter Frampton, but one of the most memorable moments is when a "possibly high" Cypress Hill place an order for the London Symphony Orchestra — who in turn end up improvising to the tune of "Insane In The Membrane.
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After improvising together a handful of times across a handful of loopers, synths, and more obscure noisemakers, they started playing shows, then released their first collection of cosmic recordings, Is the Food Your Family Eats Slowly, on Kaplan and Allison's own Hausu Mountain label.
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In a short interview with Zane Lowe, whose Beats 1 show premiered the single, Makonnen tells the story of wearing everyone out in a studio session with his tireless drive and then improvising a song about how he doesn't need anyone else around to assist.
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The superheated brandwash just makes its way back to room temperature and curdles, and the same dim honkers that spent Super Bowl improvising playfights on TV sets and pumping up imaginary beefs go on to spend the next weeks making just as much noise.
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I had tons of them, and they would have weird titles... I was turning up all of these photos and trying to find ways to arrange them, with the belief that somehow there was a real analogy between making beats, improvising rhymes, and making photographs.
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If I'm understanding his method correctly, based on "In the Moment," the impressive record he released last year, these individual pieces were developed from little modules of onstage collective improvising that his band had recorded across many gigs at the Bedford, a small Chicago club.
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Over the last seven years, he's been transforming The Fargo House, constantly evolving it by improvising wooden models from walls, cutting holes into ceilings and piling building debris in the middle of a room that is hung with photographs of the house, amongst other things.
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I understood the individual actions that had led me to the weekend — a promotional email arrived, I flagged it for my mother, who hadn't wanted to go alone — without completely grasping how I had ended up there, onstage, improvising jokes about the dining room's toast.
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On "Sunset Park, After the Sun Sets," Brandley starts on the ney, a Middle Eastern flute with a chalky tone, and moves to the alto clarinet, improvising in miniature filigrees and small, tumbling phrases as the trio creates a pebbly path below him. RUSSONELLO
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To hear Lovebug Starski tell it, he was there when the phrase "hip-hop" was coined, trading the two words back and forth while improvising lines with Cowboy of the Furious Five at a farewell party for a friend who was headed into the Army.
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During a phone interview from Los Angeles (where he is shooting an NBC superhero sitcom called "Powerless"), he spoke of improvising some of K-2SO's lines, running on stilts over sand and the kind of preparation that goes into playing both robots and roosters.
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An experimenter, essentially sitting in for a theoretical collaborative AI, added characters to a story the two were improvising — in some cases according to the context of the story ("They found a kitten in the cave"), and in some cases randomly ("Add a kitten to the story").
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Zenovich's doc features plenty of footage of Williams onstage, improvising riffs about removing his penis and taking it to a bar so he can engage it in frank conversation, or snaking a hand between Billy Crystal's legs onstage and pretending his arm is Crystal's active, talkative cock.
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In the video — in which we see brief clips of Fassbender and Vikander improvising their dialogue, movements and obviously enjoying each other's company — director Derek Cianfrance says that when he was casting the film, he hoped he'd find two actors who made you believe in their romance.
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In the 1960s, Mr. Palmieri had — to some observers — the best Afro-Latin dance band in New York, Conjunto La Perfecta, which made powerful innovations in arrangement and instrumentation on the prevailing Latin dance-band sounds; he added more brass and more possibilities for improvising at length.
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More than anything, though, it has been the compounding nature of the fiscal pressures, year after year, with this year being the worst, that has eaten away at the experience of CUNY's students and faculty, from canceled electives to instructors improvising in the face of shortages.
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If you are trying to focus on your breath, music could be distracting, because it will "on some level be perceived," says Aaron Berkowitz, director of global neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, and author of The Improvising Mind.
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He instructed them to take their turn in introducing themselves, by improvising danced self-portraits that ended the way he had started, filling in the phrase "My name is…" And he showed them what he meant, commanding attention with the subtlest undulations of his small, wiry body.
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The explanation had better be good: Mr. Trump's record of lies, lies and more lies; his impeachment on charges of misusing the power of his office; and his record of improvising foreign policy according to his immediate political calculations have undermined his credibility, at home and abroad.
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Watching her, I was reminded of the time when, in the basement in Nashville, she had been sitting and improvising that music—black, white, Native American, and American—in that she seemed, in some more than figurative way, to have been born for it, for the moment.
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Since the beginning of the election, he has been credited with improvising (or trying to improvise) weapons out of everything within reach: Twitter, "the dollar," conspiracy theories, "fake news," harassment, Bill Clinton, emails, the media, "merry Christmas," federal funding, unintelligibility and chaos — to name just a few.
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The group Irreversible Entanglements is a scalding, free-improvising quintet featuring the young performance poet Camae Ayewa (known as Moor Mother in her solo work), who draws connections across epochs of African and American history, making sense of trauma and gathering power to take action today.
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At this concert, part of the continuing A World in Trance festival, the Attar brothers will perform alongside three improvising musicians based in the United States: the saxophonist and clarinetist Ned Rothenberg; the saxophonist, vocalist and visual artist Arrington de Dionyso; and the percussionist Ben Bennett.
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Today, though, they plan to take on their toughest challenge yet: Improvising their way through four and a half hours of Super Bowl 50 coverage, in character as two dimwit commentators, without using the names of the players, teams, or the event itself because of NFL contract regulations.
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In the quarantined Chinese city of Wuhan, health workers fighting the explosive outbreak of a new coronavirus have been improvising for weeks, trying to provide whatever care they can for Covid-2660 patients whose symptoms range from a cough and fever to severe pneumonia, septic shock, and organ failure.
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Such repetition has long been the bedrock of dance music — be it disco, Chicago house, or Detroit techno — but in recent years, a broad range of cutting edge, underground and improvising artists have also picked up on Riley's ideas (and sometimes his instrumentation) and taken them into other realms.
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When he leaves her — claiming that married life is holding him back, though his only talent is for ripping off Bob Newhart routines — she finds herself onstage at the Gaslight Cafe, improvising a raunchy, fiery set that brings down the house (and gets her arrested on obscenity charges).
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This deepfake of Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland in 'Back to the Future' is unreal John Oliver and Stephen Colbert improvising fake movie plots deserves a show of its own Seth Meyers pokes fun at Trump's weird obsession with badgers Netflix's 'Stranger Things' Season 4 teaser reveals Hopper lived
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This deepfake of Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland in 'Back to the Future' is unreal John Oliver and Stephen Colbert improvising fake movie plots deserves a show of its own Netflix's 'Stranger Things' Season 4 teaser reveals Hopper lived Justin Bieber skated circles around Jimmy Fallon in a hockey shootout
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At each town the troupe would be greeted by the chairwoman of the local arts council or some similar matron, and on the bus rides from one place to another Mr. Humphries began improvising what he thought the woman in the next town would say, using a character he called Edna.
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Growing up (even with superpowers) ain't easy in Netflix's 'I Am Not Okay with This' trailer John Oliver slams 'Medicare for All' critics in powerful monologue John Oliver and Stephen Colbert improvising fake movie plots deserves a show of its own Seth Meyers pokes fun at Trump's weird obsession with badgers
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And "3 Compositions [EEMHM] 2011" — released by the Firehouse 12 label in conjunction with Mr. Braxton's foundation — is part of his new system of compositions called Echo Echo Mirror House, in which all seven members of an improvising band, besides playing instruments, use iPods to trigger selections from Mr. Braxton's recorded past.
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This deepfake of Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland in 'Back to the Future' is unreal John Oliver and Stephen Colbert improvising fake movie plots deserves a show of its own Seth Meyers pokes fun at Trump's weird obsession with badgers Justin Bieber skated circles around Jimmy Fallon in a hockey shootout
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It includes a version of the Brazilian singer Maria Rita's "Cría," sung by Mr. Feliciano's daughter Nore; a version of the Afro-Cuban music pioneer Arsenio Rodríguez's diasporic anthem "Yo Nací del África" ("I Was Born of Africa"); some open, exploratory improvising in free rhythm; and plenty of smart and elegantly arranged salsa.
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It portrays various characters through the text, through the music — for an improvising quintet and the strings of the Mivos Quartet, reading notated passages — and through the movements of the Japanese dancer Satoshi Haga, who started his work long before the first notes of the piece, moving ultra-slowly toward the stage.
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Stretching over 50 minutes, and drawn to long silences, it has the violinist wander between music stands placed around the room, in the midst of an electronic soundscape filled with the echoes of another violinist (the great Gidon Kremer) improvising, along with the occasional mumble of a voice or a clatter of furniture.
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PARELES 'THE ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO AND ASSOCIATED ENSEMBLES' ECM; 21 CDs, 300-page book, $108.98 The Art Ensemble of Chicago — a trailblazing group equally dedicated to minimalism and excursion, Pan-African folklore and avant-garde improvising — had been around for about a decade when it began releasing albums on ECM in 1978.
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This is a far more complicated demand, and those who have been pulling the strings for years in Algeria — the army and an extensive nexus of politicians, top businessmen and high civil servants — have been improvising to keep up with the largely peaceful demonstrators, who have turned out in increasing numbers each Friday.
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Tarantino's forthcoming debut album, "Winds of Change," announces this young alto saxophonist as a composer of sharply plotted but gracefully unencumbered straight-ahead jazz and — for those who haven't already caught her in her capacity as a busy side musician around New York — an announcement of her lovely, ardent way of improvising.
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Jones, six feet tall with a booming voice, has always been a ferocious and freewheeling performer, but Marcus convinced her to make a set list for the first time, to stick to the same jokes at every show as opposed to improvising new lines and also to be more strategic with crowd work.
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When we discover that Greaves himself edited the final film, it begs the question whether he knew what he was doing from start to end — whether he was improvising the entire shoot, whether the suspicious crew was really being candid in their so-called private meetings, or whether the entire thing was scripted and contrived.
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But with Trump, who called himself the "king of debt" in that original CNBC interview, it's different—a lot of time he's talking about things that he has no experience in, from the specifics of military history to the deficit, and he is obviously improvising plans in interviews without having given the matter much thought.
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Aside from the improvising horn and guitar lines that swept across the album, this represented almost the exact sonic and lyrical blueprint that rappers like Melle Mel and Eazy-E would pick up on a decade later, when they released some of the first major hip-hop singles, using D.J.s instead of live bands.
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Minsky will be remembered as a lot of things, but whether it is as the philosopher-scientist who was so captivated by the nature of the human mind during his student days as Harvard, or the piano virtuoso capable of improvising fugues, few things so beautifully capture the essence of Minsky's creativity and scientific curiosity as his useless machines.
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Working at fantastic speeds (I once did a complete novel in three and one-half days, just to see if I could) we mastered the knack of improvising plots from scratch and making everything work out neatly at the required 50,000-word length: a wonderful exercise in structural discipline that has stood me in good stead ever since.
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More than two years after Hurricane Maria brought devastation that in some places has still not been repaired, emergency management officials facing the latest natural disasters appear to lack cohesive strategies to keep survivors safe and are improvising as they go along, according to a number of local officials, legal advocates and academic analysts who are watching the response.
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" Without mentioning Trump's name, he warned against improvising on matters of foreign policy involving President Vladimir Putin, of Russia: "Russia's aggression against Ukraine—and the impact that Russian policies and actions toward neighboring countries have had on European security as a whole—marks a paradigm shift, the end of trust in the post-Cold War order.
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Baby Carrie Fisher and her younger brother Todd toddle around their childhood mansion, play in their pool, and appear on TV. The entire documentary would be worth it just for the footage of Fisher as a lanky, grinning teenager, belting out Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" at one of Reynolds' cabaret shows, or improvising a wacky dance on a California lawn.
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Listening to Multi-Task feels like reading a page-turner in one sitting: You're propelled from song to song, pulled through the record by guitar runs that sound difficult enough to break someone's hand, bass lines that run counter to them but somehow still complement them perfectly, and image-rich songwriting delivered with a punk sensibility—almost like Frobos is improvising poetry.
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Having this kind of yin-yang of playing a ton of shows with Nico, and always improvising those shows, and then coming home periodically and returning to this record material or listening to it in a tour bus or an airport after a show—I'm not sure I can say how exactly the Darkside experience influenced it, but it's in there.
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The band is about to release a fine debut album — a mix of indie-rock testimonial, noisy convulsion and warped group improvising — and will celebrate the disc with this two-night run, featuring Ms. Kidambi on vocals, Adam O'Farrill on trumpet (filling in for Ambrose Akinmusire, the group's regular horn player), Michael Formanek on bass and Tomas Fujiwara on drums.
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Almost any creative project has an incredible amount of training and effort behind it, no matter how instantaneous it may seem — from the master jazz musician improvising "in the moment" (something he couldn't do without lifelong practice) to the radio show This American Life, which sounds like "friends swapping stories around a campfire" but takes months to bring each seemingly spontaneous conversation to life.
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After talking about improvising on the set of "Crazy Rich Asians," which is nominated for the best musical or comedy — "I do a lot of make-em-ups everywhere I go," he said — the former physician told a story about helping to save a life at one of his shows: "I was doing stand-up comedy back in May and someone in the third row had a seizure," Mr. Jeong said.
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So there was a key board guy guitar guy, someone on bass, on drums, tambourine, and a microphone, So what james brown would do is his band would be in there zoning out and literally improvising and feeding off each other and James Brown would just walk into the room while their jamming, the mic would be on record and that would be how they would come up with records.
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So while Mr. Hutchings's saxophone sound passes through the American masters (he manages a smart balance of Sonny Rollins's full-sail linear improvising and John Coltrane's billowy grandeur, a rare achievement) his playing and composing also reflect British influences: You can hear the latent kinetics of Tom Challenger, a British saxophonist a few years Mr. Hutchings's senior, and the thumping tunes that Courtney Pine wrote for the Jazz Warriors in the 1980s.
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Instead, in his desperation and heat, his split second two handed panic swipe, we see him as we might see ourselves, our friends, our children, if we were forced to play in an NBA game for a minute: as a flailing wildman operating at the edge of his capability, caught in a scenario that makes very little sense in the wider structure of basketball, improvising to keep ourselves in the game as much as possible.
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"Origami Harvest" stretches six lengthy tracks across a full hour of snarled interplay between the classical strings of the Mivos Quartet; Mr. Akinmusire and his two improvising brethren, Marcus Gilmore on drums and Sam Harris on piano; and the poet and rapper Victor Vazquez, a former member of Das Racist, who goes by Kool A.D. The result is a tangled portrait of anxieties, one that adheres to its own standards of beauty, taking no particular tradition for granted.
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