I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.
You have to know composition to be a good improviser.
Sometimes you can fix something that went wrong with what you do next and make it better than it would have been if it hadn't gone wrong, as an improviser, and I do know how to do that.
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.
I consider myself a good improviser but Will and Kevin showed me I have a lot to learn.
I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.
Joe Henderson, who I maybe, to me, if I had to pick one improviser in my life that I saw live that blew my mind most, especially as a teenager.
If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.
Dave Rocha is a mature and eminently musical improviser. His sumptuous tone and cafefully chosen notes embody real musical thought. His performance of 'Dear Old Stockholm' at Chez Hanny evoked favorable comparisons to Miles Davis' classic recording.
