For the sections with his trio, he dug into a deeper repertory, including his brother Thad Jones's "Quiet Lady" and Wes Montgomery's "Twisted Blues," neither of which is a usual suspect.
In the last 25 years Mr. Baryshnikov has journeyed deep into the repertory of American modern dance, while Ms. Rainer, in the last year, has returned to the dance studio after 25 years as a noted feminist filmmaker.
Hager Cohen's account of her earliest contact with performance goes back to her childhood, first as a volunteer with her mother in a production by Vermont's Bread and Puppet Theater, then while watching summer repertory deep in the Adirondack woods.
They uphold the boisterous luxuriance of the Mingus legacy while delving ever deeper into his repertory.
The concept here is different: to dig deep into the repertories of familiar masters, locating unusual and neglected works that help put the masterpieces in context.
Jazz at Lincoln Center doesn't have to present new programming at its gala fund-raisers; it could sail by on what's now a decade-deep catalog of repertory and original work.
Selecting from a repertory so deep and diverse, and trying to match it with anything else, must be both a dream and a nightmare.
Mr. Masur favored a broad pace, but the playing flowed smoothly, with a luminosity and authority that attested to both Mr. Masur's deep command of this repertory and his continuing affinity with this orchestra.
For over 20 years, this perpetually rumpled Arkansas native, a maverick in the New York music scene, earned the loyalty of orchestra players, especially students and fledgling professionals, who were drawn to his artistic vision, infectious love of offbeat repertory and deep musical understanding, despite the fact that Mr. Nygaard paid them modestly, at best.
