Sirone

Sirone (Norris Jones, 1940-2009) was an American jazz bassist and composer, born in Atlanta and active in New York free jazz from the late 1960s. He is best known as co-founder of the Revolutionary Ensemble, the trio with violinist Leroy Jenkins, and as a bassist who worked with Cecil Taylor, Pharoah Sanders, Marion Brown and Dewey Redman. He lived in Berlin from the late 1980s until his death there. Sirone came to New York in the mid-1960s at Marion Brown's invitation and started the Untraditional Jazz Improvisational Team with Dave Burrell.