improvisatory

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There were decades of traveling the world giving improvisatory keyboard recitals that sometimes included all-night organ recitals in Gothic French cathedrals.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2025

That seesawing piano riff on the soundtrack could be rain droplets or an improvisatory theme for a couple lolling around an open-air market trying on sunglasses.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024

An accomplished musician and composer, McBride said there’s a certain improvisatory element to his writing, like jazz music.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2023

The music is lean and nimble, with improvisatory guitar filigrees, leaping and slapping bass lines, darting accordion countermelodies and huffing brass-band chords, all delivered with pinpoint syncopation.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

Then, out of this run-of-the-mill swing exuberance, something emerges that is new in its sound, new in its execution and new in its improvisatory style.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall