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The former student practically embodies the idea of ​​a close connection between improvisation and spoken language - but in the correct English language:

https://www.facebook.com/olevine/videos/10159714606913098/?t=56

The gradual transformation of Billy Holiday's prosaic speech into rhythmic speech, riff and instrumental melodic sentence :
https://soundcloud.com/jazzman1945/from-talking-till-improvising

The basic idea is this: if someone thinks that art is born behind the marble walls of the Palace of Arts, then he is mistaken - endless materials for art are scattered everywhere, anywhere: inside us, on the floor of a house, on the street in rainy weather. You just need to focus on the phenomenon, to frame it and come back to it repeatedly - like a bottle of Coca-Cola by Andy Warhol.

Hi Naham

Only watched your student video.
Very cool - it made me think of Mose Allison!

Cheers

or this ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrgveUpwCnM

Of course; he is my light and guide! !

And mine
I love this one as well...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVajWqWdEco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_AFJ7NPcEA

Barry Harris method teaches improvisation skills.

And also Dave Frank ,Bob Stoloff, John Mehegan, Lenny Tristano, Jerry Cocker, Charlie Banacus, David Baker, Bert Ligon, Jerry Bergonzi, Hal Crook,Hal Galper , Gary Burton, Shelly Berg, Ron Miller, Youssef Lateef, Dave Liebman, Ed Baker , Bill Dobbins, Mark Levine, Frank Mantooth, Charlie Austin, Tim Richards, Jim McNeely, Dan Greenblatt, Jason Klobnak , Graham Collier, Martial Solal, Joe Viera, Igor Bril, Roman Stolyar, Yuri Chugunov( I apologize to all those whose materials I also studied over the years and also bring thanks , but could not remember at the moment).

So...?

It happens that the initial stage of studying improvisation skills by beginners, stylistically not exactly defined (this does not mean that the result will not be influenced by music already heard in one genre or another, before in the field of rhythms).The process of modern teaching of improvisation is overwhelmingly, with few exceptions, focused on jazz improvisation, and is extremely academic to take pride of place in academic institutions (ivory towers), along with traditional improvisation courses in the genres of baroque, rococo, classical and romantic, which also requires study of counterpoint ( not for beginners !).
I'm not even talking about free improvisation and improve music - there are scanty number of textbooks on this subject, two of which are in my library (" Improvisation games for classical musicians" by Jeffrey Agrell and "Modern Improvisation: A Practical Guide for Piano" by Roman Stolyar).
In such circumstances, when on the one hand we are not talking about jazz improvisation, on the other hand, not about Bach's style improvisation , on the third hand, not in the Arabic or Indian style, on the fourth hand there are no clear methodologies , it remains to invent them!
My very diligent student, plays the piano for 2.5 years, suddenly announced at beginning of the semester that he wanted to study improvisation, but not in jazz and not in pop style ( he studied only classical pieces ) . The elementary theory - major& minor scales, 5 types of chords, voice leading , functions, he already knows; which makes it easier to focus on the melodic line.
I do not have much experience teaching this type of improvisation, although I can improvise in the classical (academic) style on the piano and violin; however, the beginner has none of this. I had to search the Internet, and everything I found is too high for my student. Maybe there is something better, but I did not find anything systematized, with the exception of the mention of scales, chords and Alberti bass . Then the idea came to transfer the initial tactics for improvisation from melodicaaaa to the piano; namely: to hold a drone in the left hand and to play a simple sequence of 2-3 pitches in the right hand, starting from the root; and carefully listening to the alternating senses of tension and resolution in the interaction of the melody and drone. This is exactly where the music begins!

Have you studied improvisation with Barry Harris?

With him personally, no; however, two of my students participated for quite some time in his workshop, so I’m familiar with his basic teaching principles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHykAVyNWFI