improvisator

A guild of musicians with the chops to tell Parker—the most protean improvisator of the bebop era—to come back when he's ready is one tough union.

A Little Evil Will Do You Good: Kansas City Jazz Con Chapman 2011

No feast at any court in those days was complete without this diversion of recitation, when the nation's heroes, or some passage from its greater classics, furnished the theme; or when some improvisator wove a tissue of myth and legend, embroidered with fact, which won its way through confiding ages as historic truth, till the time, growing sophisticated, laid it heroically aside for a curio.

The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Lawrence Turnbull

It must reluctantly be confessed that one of the most fascinatingly vital of them all, Alexandre Dumas, is one of the exceptions, born improvisator as he was; yet immense research, it needs hardly be said, went to the making of his enormous library of romance -- even though, it be allowed, that much of that work was done for him by his "disciples."

Imperishable Fiction: An Inquiry into the Short Life of the 'Best Sellers' Reveals the Methods Which Brought into Being the Novels that Endure 1914

Being a fantastic, nervous improvisator he is more exposed to radical mistakes.

The French Impressionists (1860-1900) Camille Mauclair 1908

It must reluctantly be confessed that one of the most fascinatingly vital of them all, Alexandre Dumas, is one of the exceptions, born improvisator as he was; yet immense research, it needs hardly be said, went to the making of his enormous library of romance -- even though, it be allowed, that much of that work was done for him by his "disciples."

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

Johnnie had the tongue of the improvisator, and he loved a listener.

Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

Johnnie had the tongue of the improvisator, and he loved a listener.

Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

When he dismissed them, the last flash of him was of a smiling, rollicking improvisator, bowing himself over to the applause till his black hair was level with our eyes.

Golden Lads Arthur Gleason 1900

Can no inventor make something to do this -- something to lie in the palm and bring all colours and divisions of colour ready made to the finger tips so that you might put them down in a revelry of colour as unconsciously and freely as the improvisator can use the notes on the piano to express his feeling.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

Of other sermons, — and good sermons, — printed and published, many have had an influence almost as restricted and as evanescent as the utterances of the pulpit improvisator.

A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897