CHRISTOPH GALLIO, soprano &alto saxophone

DOMINIQUE GIROD, double bass

DIETER ULRICH, drums

DAY &TAXI is the trio of Swiss saxophonist Christoph Gallio which was originally formed in 1988 as a Quartett with saxophonist Urs Blöchlinger. From the beginning the group consisted of Scottish bassist Lindsay L. Cooper and drummer Dieter Ulrich of Zurich. Besides concerts in Switzerland, DAY &TAXI toured Russia and the Baltic States in 1993 and played various Jazzfestivals in Canada in 1994. Today the trios' stock repertoire continues to be original compositions. The initial work of the original trio is documented on CD (percaso production 11, RecRec Distr.) and is entitled "all". After some time apart DAY&TAXI resurfaced with a new contrabassist and a new repertoire. Todays edition of the trio plays mostly Gallio compositions, which define and stylize a mixture of contemporary new music and jazz. The improvisation, abstract and plastic visions are the extra important ingredients in the music of DAY &TAXI.

Christoph Gallio soprano &altosaxophone * 1957

Lives in Zurich. Self-taught. Studied saxophone with Iwan Roth at the Basel Conservatory. In 1987 Gallio won the art action award from the City of Basel. Since 1977 he has played with Irene Schweizer, Irene Aebi, Urs Voerkel, Stephan Wittwer, Peter Kowald, Dennis Charles, Bern Nix, Michael Lytle, Kalle Laar, Robert Dick, Werner Lüdi, Urs Blöchlinger, Fred Frith, Phil Minton, John Russel, Chie Mukai, Takashi Kazamaki, Samm Bennett, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Kazutoki Umezu, Ellen Christi, William Parker, Rashied Ali, etc. Performed solo and with dancers Christine Brodbeck, Yvonne Meier and Franz Frautschi. Worked together with artists Beat Streuli and Claude Gaçon. Since 1986 he has been composing. Concerts in Japan, Russia, USA, Canada and Europe.

ASSORTED PUBLISHED RECORDINGS

Christoph Gallio "fishland" solo, 1986 percaso production 02

Christoph Gallio "certainty sympathy" Gallio, Ostrowski, Zimmerlin, 1988 percaso production 05

Gallio Ostrowski Zimmerlin "birds &dogs" 1989 percaso production 07

Day &Taxi "all" Gallio, Cooper, Ulrich 1992 percaso production 11

Christoph Gallio "Cars &Variations/High Desert Songs", Gallio, Aebi, Mukai, Wittwer, Lüscher, Cooper, Ulrich, Ostrowski, Zimmerlin ,1994 percaso production 13

Christoph Gallio "mono" solo, 1994 Unit Records 4075

Ensemble Uncontrolled "tales from the forest", Gallio, Akulin, Soo, Laar, Kazamaki, 1996 LEO LAB CD 024

Christoph Gallio "à Gertrude Stein", Gallio, Christi, Parker, Ali, 1996 percaso production 16

Dominique Girod double bass * 1975

Lives in Zurich. Piano trained. Studied double bass from 1993-95 with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Bernard Cazauran, plus arrangement and composition at the American School of Modern Music in Paris under Joe Markholm. Until 1996 Girod studied at the Conservatoire George Bizet in Paris, but since then he studies at the Zurich Conservatory. Girod has been playing music around Zurich since 1989. During his time in the Paris Jazz-Szene he played with Boris Blanchet, Ivan Avice, Lionel Boccara, Mehdi Bennani-Quartett, the group from Cape Verde of Theophilo Chantre and the Charanga Francesca.

Dieter Ulrich drums * 1958

Zurich born and raised. Piano traned. Plays drums since 1972 and is self-taught. Since 1975 he has played with Harald Haerter, Kurt Grämiger, Nathanael Su, Urs Blöchlinger, Werner Lüdi, Hans Koch, Bob Mover, Trevor Watts, Urs Voerkel, Co Streiff, Vinny Golia, Alfred Zimmerlin, Claudia Ulla Binder, Tom Varner, Jacques Siron, Christoph Baumann, Dave Taylor, Jürg Solothurnmann, Glenn Ferris, Luten Petrofsky, Sri.N.S. Krishna Murthy, Dr. L. Subramanian and others. Ulrich has also collaborated on the following multi-media projects with Daniel Mouthon; "Wasteland" 1986, "Finnabout" 1991, "air à l'en verre" an opera project for the Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zürich 1997.

ASSORTED PUBLISHED RECORDINGS

Neurotica, Urs Blöchlinger, HatHut 2008, 1984

Cinéma Invisible, Urs Blöchlinger, PL 1267-24/25, 1986

Notspielplatz, Notspielplatz, ex libris 12616, 1987

Serendipity, Werner Lüdi Sunnymoon, Creative Works, 1987

DonŒt Call Back..., Urs Blöchlinger, Unit Records 4027, 1987

Cadavres Exquis, Baumann/Blöchlinger, Creative Works, 1988

All, DAY &TAXI, percaso production 11, 1992

Afro Garage, Baumann/Siron/Ulrich, Unit Records 4052, 1992

Le chauffeur, Peter Seiler, Unit Records 4061, 1993

Les Passeurs..., Jacques Siron, PL 1267-81, 1993 Cars &Variations..., Christoph Gallio, percaso production 13, 1994

No turning back Agasul Orchester, Unit Records 4100, 1996

Contact:

Christoph Gallio, Haldenstrasse 131, CH-8055 Zürich

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