It has to be said, of course, that if jazz musicians greeted the unexpected moves of others with the reflexes of the England defence against Germany, the music would have died out a long time ago, but the best spontaneous jazz-making certainly brings Brazil or Argentina's one-touch fluency to mind.
Saxophonist Andy Sheppard and drummer Seb Rochford from the UK, and French double-bassist Michel Benita came together in workshop sessions, but they didn't fully polish their conversational, one-touch fluency until a memorable Cheltenham Jazz Festival gig in May 2011.
There was a bit of Jim Hall's economy in both of them, but also a touch of John McLaughlin's hyper-fluency, notably during the 21-beat rhythm cycle in "Here Not Here".
In addition to fancy penthouses, they're going to need more of those for-profit schools that promise Mandarin fluency in kindergarten, floor-to-ceiling touch screens and P.E.
Drawing on concepts of adaptive expertise, we developed a task for a multi-touch classroom, NumberNet, that aimed to support both fluency and flexibility.
Executive function was determined using the modified 'One Touch Stockings' (OTS) version of the Tower of London task from the CANTAB battery, phonemic fluency (words beginning with 'F' in 1 min) and semantic fluency (animals in 90 s).
Fluency, however, is declining.
Now the fluency returned.
And what does fluency mean?
He writes with grace, fluency and authority.
Fluency in French and Spanish.
