But somehow the term seems flat and cumbersome in describing his output, which at this point feels more like a continuing set of questions and proposals than a series of distinct pieces.
And if he isn't always playing his early repertory -- his first new album in nine years, "Joao Voz e Violao" (Verve/Universal) contains seven songs he hasn't recorded before -- the style of his music sounds to all but the most trained ear like a continuing extension of his first eureka moment.
They also sit squarely within the tradition of photographic archives like Gerhard Richter's "Atlas," a continuing compendium of images that sometimes function as source material for his paintings.
And work with what you have, in this case a distinctive choreographic voice like Mr. Davis's and a continuing investigation of material: "The Bends of Life," a dance commissioned several years ago by Auburn University in Alabama as a companion piece to an exhibition by the famed quiltmakers of Gee's Bend, Ala.
"I like the idea of a continuing story," he told The Independent of the show last year.
A shadow puppeteer (the exquisite Sandra Marín Garcia) remains, shedding her clothes at the end to emerge like a puppet herself, suggesting a continuing cycle of confused creation and destruction.
"I like the idea of a continuing story," he says.
What I saw seemed like chunks of a continuing discourse, played by an enormous ensemble, under a common directive.
But Sainsbury is down 7.3p to 243.5p as it reported a 1.1% fall in second quarter like for like sales and warned of a continuing tough market.
Though "fully revised and updated", the book has no obvious structure, is studded with errors, and often reads like the second instalment of a continuing Blair biography rather than a treatment of its nominal subject.
