Can you give any example?

 

I suppose, what I'm trying to say, is that when you're on stage and having to improvise off of a chart, that's hard and where your skills need be thrown. If you're a producer, you should encourage extreme experimentation (if time permits it.) Another example of where I see theory, composition and free form happen is this video.

 

Frank just mashes up everything he ever felt like doing. And he had George Duke and Dunbar.

 

Not related, but that studio burnt down. That's why he built one way under his house.

 

You can listen to this whole video, and Greg explains the whole process of going outside, but I'll link it to where he plays over a loop to show it. He's a maester.

 

And then, you apply the improvising factor to a band, it's hard as just a producer. That's why pop music is miles away from what bands actually play. Then in actual recording sessions, the producers role is threatened, cause they make the music. However, in a modern context, producers are actually musicians in their own right. Think Giorgio Moroder. He started it, along with Quincy Jones.