Gary Windo
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Musical artist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gary Windo (7 November 1941, in Brighton, England – 25 July 1992, in New York City) was an English jazz tenor saxophonist.[1][2]
Gary Windo | |
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Born | Brighton, England | 7 November 1941
Died | 25 July 1992 50) New York City | (aged
Genres | Jazz, jazz fusion, avant-garde jazz |
Occupation | Musician |
Instrument | Saxophone |
Years active | 1960s–1992 |
Windo came from a musical family in England. By age six he took up drums and accordion, then guitar at twelve and saxophone at seventeen. He lived in the United States during the 1960s but returned to England in 1969. In the early 1970s, his career grew as he founded the Gary Windo Quartet and worked with Carla Bley, Brotherhood of Breath, Centipede, Matching Mole, The Running Man, and Nick Mason.
Sonny Stitt heard Windo play at the Berlin Jazz Festival and asked him to join the band, which he declined. He worked outside jazz, with the Psychedelic Furs, Robert Wyatt, NRBQ, and for the comedy television show Saturday Night Live. He taught music lessons with his friend Eric Peralli.
Windo could play many reed instruments, including soprano sax and bass clarinet. His time in America exposed him to all types of jazz, and he was at home in any idiom. He used harmonics often and could split a note into its components using his prodigious technique and a metal mouthpiece with a wide lay and a hard reed. He died from a drug overdose in 1992. He is survived by his wife Siobhan Hunter.[3]
With Hugh Hopper
With Chris McGregor
With NRBQ
With Robert Wyatt
With others
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