Jazz guitarist
Musical artist
Christy Doran (born 1949) 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, Patrice Héral [de], Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Phil Minton, Joe McPhee[1] and Carla Bley.[2] Doran founded New Bag in 1997 and toured the world from 1998 to 2000 with the ensemble. Doran has taught at the Musikhochschule Luzern[2][1] since 1990.[3]
Discography
As leader
- Harsh Romantics (Synton, 1984)
- Christy Doran's May 84 (1985)
- The Returning Dream of the Leaving Ship (1986)
- Red Twist & Tuned Arrow (ECM, 1987)
- Henceforward (Line Music/Core, 1989)
- Christy Doran's Phoenix (hatArt, 1990)
- Corporate Art (JMT, 1991)
- Musik für zwei Kontrabässe, elektrische Gitarre und Schlagzeug (ECM, 1991)
- What a Band (Hathut, 1992)
- Play the Music of Jimi Hendrix (Call It Anything/Intuition, 1995)
- Race the Time (1997)
- Shaman (M.E.L.T., 2000)
- Black Box (2002)
- Heaven Is Back in the Streets (Double Moon, 2003)
- Triangulation (Leo, 2004)
- Confusing the Spirits (2004)
- Perspectives (Between the Lines, 2005)
- Jimi (Challenge, 2005)
- La Fourmi (2005)
- Now's the Time (2006)
- The Competence of the Irregular (Between the Lines, 2009)
- Triangulation: Whirligigs (Leo, 2010)
Collaborations
As sideman
With Ray Anderson and Han Bennink
With Joe McPhee
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