Each trio generally performs a set of between 30 and 45 minutes, which may be made up of several short improvisations or a single longer work.
Dissonances charge the compositions, and riffs frame the short improvisations.
All of this is Greaves's attempt to capture reality on film, using cameras in the right places at inopportune moments to discourage any short improvisations or unnaturalities that might take place.
The lehara may be interspersed with short and occasional improvisations built around the basic melody.
Besides the above, short improvisations and performances were created as part of the process of training and research.
His trio created arrangements lined with short improvisations, with one player's solo framed by concise phrases worked out between the other two musicians.
Things change in its music: sections become longer or shorter, improvisations change nightly.
While there were improvisations, usually short and shorn of cliches, they were subservient to the overall shape of the music.
The group portion of the audition, candidates are asked to read a scene with a partner and present a short improvisation either solo or with a partner or group.
In their full sound and short, precise improvisations, the performances gave a sense that the instrumentalists had music-making on their minds, not competition.