Not being in possession of such a device, I improvise back at my desk with a couple of box files, several magazines and a tower of reporters' notebooks.
Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front, " said Keith Emerson.
If you do improvise, (Otherwise known as ab-libbing) try to remember one line, and improvise back to the line you remember, that'll get the show back on track!
He skipped that, read a few more lines, and then improvised: "Go back to Mississippi; go back to Alabama; go back to South Carolina; go back to Georgia; go back to Louisiana; go back to the slums and ghettos of our Northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed".
Both men picked up, adapted and batted back improvised figures as if they played together every day rather than once or twice a decade.
Even his own band had to improvise the backing for a song they had never played before, "A Boy Named Sue", that Cash spontaneously decided to play on the day.
In a close-fought contest Marlon King was unlucky to see his improvised back-flick hit the bar before the break, while Geovanni, on three occasions, King and Ian Ashbee were all denied by the irrepressible Jaaskelainen in the second half.
Krulwich and Abumrad leaned back on improvised chairs the dancers had made for them with their own bodies, surveying the moment of evanescence they had engineered.
To study how musicians judge spontaneity, psychologists Annerose Engel and Peter Keller of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, recorded six jazz pianists as each one played improvised jazz over a backing track.
Speculation arose this week that Ferguson would look to bring Campbell in when the transfer window opens next month as he battles with injury problems which have forced him to improvise with his back four.
She improvised a spit in her back yard over a bed of bricks and coals.
