extemporization

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Over two recording sessions for Columbia Records in early 1959, Davis would hand out the sketchiest of outlines for the music and leave the rest to extemporization.

From Washington Post • May 25, 2020

Each monologue is recorded and then looped back on top of the next in increasing layers so that the final extemporization is delivered over the interweaving strands of thought of the nine previous ones.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2012

And when Mr. Gates went the full distance on the standard “Lullaby of Birdland,” affixing his own words to a Dexter Gordon extemporization, the results were more like prose than poetry.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2010

The truth is that, being an incorrigible Spaniard, I am naturally given to a kind of extemporization and to neglectfulness of a filed niceness in my works.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

My hunger I could never satisfy with any amount of composition or extemporization of my own.

From Weighed and Wanting by MacDonald, George