Having lived on both coasts, I don’t actually have the impression that the scene is any less fragmentary in New York, New York simply has a different history and institutional infrastructure, and in the end, there’s no difference between playing in a SoHo loft or the Double Rocking G Gallery.

Your list ought to also include the more improvisational musicians, especially those around Bobby Bradford, John Carter, Horace Tapscott, and the various groups Golia has worked with. (I really don’t know that scene well, but it seems too important to leave out). On a more classical side, I would also add the duos of Phil Rehfeld and Barney Childs, Karl and Margaret Kohn, and a long series of string quartets, from Kolisch through the Arriaga. Then there are a large number of soloists — how about Cage’s teacher, Buhlig, or Johanna Harris?

And, of course, one should never leave out the Roto Rooter Goodtime Christmas Band, several members of which were students of Leedy at UCLA…