Improvisation

[Labyrinthine]

Who here is a fan of it?

Who prefers a bit more form to their music?

Who hates it?

What do you think?

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I personally love improv when people are skillful enough to actually improv. It's such a refreshing escape from the repetitive, dull mainstream crap you hear so much in the U.S. I'm still developing a taste for completely free form improv (dynamic time signatures, no chord progression, no form to improv to) but I have heard some really neat stuff.

[Latro]

what's the difference between this... and Free styling?

[The Grandfather]

Googling improvisation, standby........

[Labyrinthine]

what's the difference between this... and Free styling?

Personally, I associate free styling with rhyming and the spoken word.
whereas
I associate improvisation with instruments.


To demonstrate an extreme example, a sample of 'Free Jazz' by Ornette Coleman's quartet.

<a href="http://media.imeem.com/m/5mKwTgEwaK/aus=false/" target="_blank">http://media.imeem.com/m/5mKwTgEwaK/aus=false/</a>

Something more structured by the same quartet

<a href="http://media.imeem.com/m/OX7qzjcKn5/aus=false/" target="_blank">http://media.imeem.com/m/OX7qzjcKn5/aus=false/</a>

[Mongoose]

i am not a big jazz fan, but some people are good at improv other people just muck it up.  I haven't heard any good improv come about recently.