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Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play. -- Ahmad Jamal
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. -- David Antin
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music. -- Sonny Rollins
Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation. -- Ellis Marsalis, Jr.
In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's no right or wrong, just some choices that are better than others. -- Wynton Marsalis
Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the primary source of jazz. Naturally, improvisation and swing are a part of jazz, improvisation being the key. -- Harold Land
The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation. -- Jan Garbarek
If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation. -- Henry Threadgill
As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty. -- Doc Childre
There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. -- Henri Matisse
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. -- Ken Burns
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. -- Mose Allison
Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them. -- Wynton Marsalis
Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune. -- John Kao
I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself. -- Miroslav Vitous

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