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About Christoph Gallio
Instrument: Saxophone, soprano
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Christoph Gallio

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Lives in Baden, Switzerland. Self-taught. Studied saxophone with Iwan Roth at the Basel Music Conservatory and music with Steve Lacy in Paris. Master of Arts (MA) in Transdisciplinarity at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). In 1987 he won the Action Arts Price of the city of Basel, in 2009 the Berlin Atelier, in 2022 the London Atelier of the Kanton Aargau and the Buenas Aires Atelier oft the City of Baden in 2017. He has toured in and outside of Switzerland. www.gallio.ch Gallio started his stage career as a cooperating artist with living goldfishes (documented on FISHLAND). He leads the Swiss trio DAY & TAXI (with bass player Silvan Jeger and drummer Gerry Hemingway) since 1988
Avram Fefer, Harris Eisenstadt, Satoko Fujii & Joe Fonda and More

by Maurice Hogue
You can always count on Clean Feed Records for great music, and this episode features some tunes from recent releases on the Portuguese label's catalogue. Saxophonist Avram Fefer adds Marc Ribot to his usual trio and the results on Testament are fantastic. Pianist Zack Clarke steps back to a traditional piano trio format, but the music ...
Kevin Sun, Roadworks, Anansi Trio and More

by Maurice Hogue
Saxophonists are all over this episode. Australia's Julien Wilson provides two different settings to display his formidable talents, and so does New York's Kevin Sun. Swiss alto player Christoph Gallio made his One Man's Jazz debut with his trio, Day & Taxi, but this time he's back with a larger and freer ensemble, Roadworks. You'll hear ...
Day and Taxi, Adam Rudolph, Harish Raghavan and More

by Maurice Hogue
First out of the mixed bag of audio treats this week (it's Halloween after all!) is a track from Oliver Lake's first recording 43 years ago Ntu: The Point from Which Creation Begins. I haven't played Oliver in a while and that seemed like a good place to begin catching up. Adam Rudolph's epic project, Ragmala, ...
Paula Shocron: Paths to a New Sound

by Jakob Baekgaard
When Werner X. Uehlinger, the founder of Hat Hut Records, was asked about a statement on why he liked Argentinian pianist Paula Shocron's music, the answer was clear, short and succinct: The quality of surprise." Uehlinger discovered Shocron's music through her work with the SLD Trio and he liked their debut Anfitrión so much that the ...