Christy Doran
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, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Phil Minton, Joe McPhee and Carla Bley.
Christy Doran
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- Name
- Christy Doran
- Born
- 1949
- Birthplace
- Dublin, Ireland
- Occupation
- Musician
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Fields
- jazz · jazz fusion
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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, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Phil Minton, Joe McPhee and Carla Bley.
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Biography
Biography
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.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Christy Doran • Born — 1949 • Birthplace — Dublin, Ireland • Genre — Avant-garde jazz • Occupation — Musician • Instrument — Guitar • Label — ECM, Plainisphare, Challenge, Synton, hat art, Unit, Leo • Associated Acts — OM
As leader
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) • Aerosols (Challenge/Between The Lines, 2021)
Collaborations
Collaborations
• No. 9 (Leo, 2013) with Yang Jing • Christy Doran's Sound Fountain – Belle Epoque (Between the Lines, 2016) • Call Me Helium (Double Moon, 2016) with Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Fredy Studer, Erika Stucky • Kontaktchemie (Boomslang Records, 2016) with Alfred Vogel • Glacial Voyage (Challenge/Between The Lines 2025) with Izumi Kimura
As sideman
As sideman
With Ray Anderson and Han Bennink • Azurety (hat ART, 1994) • Cheer Up (hat ART, 1995) With Joe McPhee • Linear B (Hat Hut, 1990)
Life and career
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Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1949
Christy Doran born at Dublin.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q691598: Christy Doran
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- “Christy Doran”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- MusicBrainz artist record for Christy Doran
Scholarly · MetaBrainz Foundation
authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 10328123-X, Christy Doran's New Bag.
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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MusicBrainz artist record for Christy DoranMetaBrainz Foundation
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 10328123-X, Christy Doran's New Bag.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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