I’ve just had an enquiry from an art auction house about the Artists’ Jazz Band, and I see that a Gordon Rayner show is coming up at the Christopher Cutts Gallery in Toronto. Rayner was a founder of the long-lived improvising ensemble, made up primarily of abstract expressionist artists, the Artists’ Jazz Band (AJB). It turns out, however, that I never posted on this website that my article on the AJB “’We Can Draw!’: Toronto Improvisation, Abstract Expressionism, and the Artists’ Jazz Band” can be read online as part of the journal Critical Studies in Improvisation.
