In 1960s New York, cheap lofts enabled artists to host avant-garde musicians

Evidence

In late 1962, Snow and his wife, fellow artist Joyce Weiland, relocated from Toronto to New York, renting a loft on Greenwich Street, just below Washington Market. A jazz pianist as well as a painter, Snow offered rehearsal space for avant-garde musicians—including Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Don Cherry, Milford Graves, and later the Jazz Composers Orchestra. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 535

Categorization

• XREF: Direct material evidence for the reader’s core thesis: cheap rent and physical spaces as preconditions for avant-garde density — connects to the scene-becomes-market argument in later chapters.
• ADDENDUM: An earlier concrete instance of gathering spaces fostering creative density, analogous to how the book’s argument about material conditions scaffolds across chapters.