Christy Doran
Christy Doran | |
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Christy Doran in 2007 | |
Background information | |
Born |
1949 Dublin, Ireland |
Genres | Avant-garde jazz |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instruments | Guitar |
Labels | ECM, Plainisphare |
Associated acts | OM |
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 Records. He and Studer worked together on a Jimi Hendrix tribute album in the 1990s.[1]
Doran has worked with free jazz and avant-garde musicians, such as Ray Anderson, Han Bennink, Robert Dick, Marty Ehrlich, Albert Mangelsdorff, Patrice Héral, Marilyn Mazur, Louis Sclavis, Herb Robertson, John Wolf Brennan, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and Carla Bley.[1]
Doran founded New Bag in 1997, and toured the world from 1998 to 2000 with the ensemble. Doran has taught at the Musikhochschule at Lucerne.[1]
Discography
- Harsh Romantics (1984)
- Christy Doran's May 84 (1985)
- The Returning Dream of the Leaving Ship (1986)
- Red Twist & Tuned Arrow (ECM, 1987)
- Henceforward (1988)
- Christy Doran's Phoenix (hatArt, 1989)
- Corporate Art (JMT, 1991)
- What a Band (Hathut, 1991)
- Musik für zwei Kontrabässe, elektrische Gitarre und Schlagzeug (1991) (ECM)
- Play the Music of Jimi Hendrix (Intuition, 1995)
- Race the Time (1997)
- Shaman (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)
- No. 9 (Leo, 2013)
- Belle Epoque (Between the Lines, 2016)
- Call Me Helium (Double Moon, 2016)
With Ray Anderson and Han Bennink
With Joe McPhee
- Linear B (Hat Hut, 1990)
References
- 1 2 3 Kelsey, Chris. "Christy Doran". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 November 2017.