Sirone

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Artistry was Sirone's first album as a leader, recorded in 1978, just after the split of the Revolutionary Ensemble. Artistry has an Atypical combination of instruments, bass, cello , flute and percussion and delivers aplenty. Listen and you will know.

Sirone ( Norris Jones) had an enormously prolific career as a bassist, both as a member of the Revolutionary Ensemble and playing with many of the best musicians of the 20th century - from Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Gato Barbieri, Noah Howard, William Parker, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Sonny Sharrock,Marion Brown ... and the list goes on.

PERSONNEL:

• Sirone - (bass)
• James Newton - (flute)
• Muneer Bernard Fennell - (cello)
• Don Moye - (percussion)

Recorded on July 5, 1978 at Generation Sound, New York

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Illusions Of Reality
• A2. Breath Of Life

• SIDE B
• B1. Circumstances
• B2. Libido