Christy Doran
Christy Doran is a jazz guitarist born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Doran founded OM with Fredy Studer, Urs Leimgruber, and Bobby Burri in the 1970s; this ensemble recorded for ECM. He and Studer also worked on a Jimi Hendrix tribute project in the 1990s. Doran has worked with free jazz and avant-garde jazz musicians such as Marty Ehrlich, Robert Dick, Ray Anderson, Han Bennink, Albert Mangelsdorff, Louis Sclavis, Marilyn Mazur, Herb Robertson, John Wolf Brennan,, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Phil Minton, Joe McPhee and Carla Bley. Doran founded New Bag in 1997 and toured the world from 1998 to 2000 with the ensemble. Doran has taught at the Musikhochschule Luzern since 1990.Discography
As leader
- Harsh Romantics
- Christy Doran's May 84
- The Returning Dream of the Leaving Ship
- Red Twist & Tuned Arrow
- Henceforward
- Christy Doran's Phoenix
- Corporate Art
- What a Band
- Musik für zwei Kontrabässe, elektrische Gitarre und Schlagzeug
- Play the Music of Jimi Hendrix
- Race the Time
- Shaman
- Black Box
- Heaven Is Back in the Streets
- Triangulation
- Confusing the Spirits
- Perspectives
- Jimi
- La Fourmi
- Now's the Time
- The Competence of the Irregular
- Triangulation: Whirligigs
Collaborations
- No. 9 with Yang Jing
- Christy Doran's Sound Fountain – Belle Epoque
- Call Me Helium with Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Fredy Studer, Erika Stucky
- Kontaktchemie with Alfred Vogel
As sideman
With Ray Anderson and Han Bennink
With Joe McPhee
