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

Thereupon he launches out on a bewildering extemporization, counting up the votes at his disposal, the cantons which will rise at his summons.

From The Nabob, Volume 1 by Ives, George Burnham

Cornelius was too much offended and self-occupied to be amused, but both Mrs. Raymount and Vavasor laughed, the latter recognizing in Hester's extemporization a vein similar to his own.

From Weighed and Wanting by MacDonald, George