Sirone obituary

Powerful jazz double bassist with a gift for improvisationBack in 1971, three adventurous young US jazz musicians formed an uncompromising improv group called the Revolutionary Ensemble – a title that had resonances in the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, and the radical transformation of jazzmaking that had been ignited by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane.The work of the experimenters of that era is still evident in jazz today, in a freer and more collectively intui...

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