Were they playing more notes when they were improvising?

But too many rules prevent accomplished jazz musicians from improvising.

I draw my circle of chalk on the pavement and enter as the improvising comic silent character

And most important, a wise person does this improvising and rule bending in the service of the right aims.

They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a story in front of an audience, often improvising.

Now Ted entered this realm every day by improvising in a sort of Tin Pan Alley style like this.

These are contrast maps that are showing subtractions between what changes when you're improvising vs. when you're doing something memorized.

Rather than revolution, we're much more interested in evolution, this idea that things gradually evolve by adapting and improvising to the changes of the world.

When he was trading fours with me, improvising vs. memorized, his language areas lit up, his Broca's area, in the inferior frontal gyrus on the left.

There's a scale paradigm, which is playing a scale up and down, memorized, then there's improvising on a scale, quarter notes, metronome, right hand scientifically very safe, but musically really boring.

And what I'd like to do now, in an act of warp speed storytelling, is tell the story of how two projects evolved by adapting and improvising to the happenstance of the world.