Jazz Band (Dirty Style Blues) is an oil on canvas painting by French artist Jean Dubuffet, from 1944.
[1] Dubuffett was at the time a great admirer of American Jazz, in particular of Louis Armstrong.
He felt particularly inspired by their improvisational style of music to create works that could be seen as their equivalent in painting, like he stated in a 1963 letter.
They are deliberately depicted in a very primitive and childlike style, that also seems influenced by African art.
Sophie Duplaix states that in this painting "the superposition of layers of color and their unexpected mixture, the furious incision of the material that brings out the underlying hues, the warm dominants that unfold in subtle combinations, are all transpositions of a sound universe that breaks with the conventions of classical music, familiar to Dubuffet, who had assiduously practiced the piano since childhood.