Yet no one pretends that jazz repertory is all of jazz.
At the time there was little momentum for the idea of jazz repertory, and the ensemble disbanded in 1968.
It has been recorded hundreds of times since, and remains in the standard jazz repertory.
This is where jazz repertory, even in Lincoln Center's liberal refashioning of the idea, gets complicated.
And this is jazz repertory, after all.
The musicians will play the standard jazz repertory, using the tunes as vehicles to improvise.
But I got frustrated with the vocal jazz repertory.
But the idea of jazz repertory seems to imply a group big enough or flexible enough to be in a position to play anything.
Here he applies his unique view of jazz repertory toward an expansive small-group performance.
Harmonically complicated, his compositions challenged young musicians, who learned them as part of the jazz repertory.