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n. (plural of improvisation English)
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Improvisations is a 1962 LP album by Ravi Shankar. The opening piece is based on music from Shankar's score for Satyajit Ray's 1955 movie Pather Panchali with flutist Bud Shank playing in Indian style. Shankar composed "Fire Night" influenced by the 1961 Los Angeles fires and the song features jazz musicians Shank (flute) and Gary Peacock (bass) improvise over Indian percussion instruments. The concluding ragas are in classical Indian style: the first raga, Kirvani, with South Indian origin, and the second, Rageshri, with North Indian origin. The album was released in CD format by Angel Records in 1999 and has been described as a "visionary recording" by AllMusic reviewer Heather Phares.
Improvisations are activities, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment.
Improvisations may also refer to:
- Improvisations (Ravi Shankar album), 1962
- Improvisations (Stéphane Grappelli album), 1956
- Improvisations (Ran Blake & Jaki Byard album), 1981
Improvisations is an album of piano duets by the American jazz pianists Ran Blake and Jaki Byard recorded in 1981 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.
Usage examples of "improvisations".
In his improvisations he regularly made a practice of using materials closest at hand, as any good artist will.
He knew cradle songs and fishing songs, classical tunes and new compositions by Theodorakis, Xarhakos, Markopoulos, and Hadjidakis, and he executed all of them with perfect tremolos and extraordinary syncopated improvisations that were inclined to prevent his audience from dancing because it was even better to listen.
Passages are composed of questions asked and answered, improvisations on themes, the matching of common knowledge to build a bizarre duet.
He knew nothing of organization, so he was surprised to find that his improvisations were effective.