The jazz avant-garde migrated a hundred blocks uptown from the Village scene.

Evidence

Co-founder of the United Nations Jazz Society (a group seeking to propagate jazz around the world, particularly Africa), from which he resigned after returning from Helsinki, Dixon had been booking avant-garde jazz at the Cellar Café, a Columbia student hangout featuring folk music, films, and poetry readings, almost one hundred blocks from MacDougal Street. The following semester brought the October Revolution. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 576