Gary is one of those people who never really achieved the recognition that was due to him. Not while he was alive, at least. A highly original musician with an instantly recognizable style, Gary Windo was part of the Canterbury scene in the Seventies. Most notable was his work with Robert Wyatt on the albums Rock Bottom (1974) and Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (1975), and Hugh Hopper on 1984 (1973) and Hoppertunity Box (1976). He was also a member of the Carla Bley band for three years. Windo was born in 1944 into a musical family in England, and began playing music at a very early age. He took up drums and accordion at six, then guitar at 12 and finally saxophone at 17. He settled in the USA in 1960, studying tenor sax and music theory with Wayne Marsh and Lennie Tristano. A long period of apprenticeship, both on- and off-stage, followed during the Sixties, until he finally decided to move back to England in 1969. In May 1976, Windo played on Hopper's album Hoppertunity Box, and followed him into Carla Bley's band, in time for the European Tour 1977 album. But while Hopper left to return to England, Windo followed Bley in America, playing on Musique Mecanique as well as various related projects. While in New York he also recorded the album Loaded Vinyl, with Pam Windo and CBB members Steve Swallow and D. Sharpe, but again it remained unreleased; and he appeared on Daevid Allen's New York Gong album, About Time. Windo spent subsequent years in America, doing copious session work as well as incidental music for TV shows such as "Saturday Night Live", touring as special guest with NRBQ and the Psychedelic Furs. He also played with Pam Windo & The Shades, and recorded his first released solo album, Dogface (1982). Between 1984-88 he led his own rock quartet, the Gary Windo Band, with Knox Chandler (guitar), Jack Robinson (bass) and Steve Moses (drums). This album Deep Water (1987), originally released on Island records was the result. An unsung classic, I am very proud to be part of the team that has finally made this peerless record available again.