Artistry was Sirone's first album as a leader, recorded in 1978, just after the split of the Revolutionary Ensemble.
The album has an atypical combination of instruments, bass, cello, flute and percussion and delivers aplenty.
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... the list goes on and on.
