Christy Doran

Christy Doran (born 1949) is a jazz guitarist born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Christy Doran
Christy Doran in 2007
Background information
Born	1949 Dublin, Ireland
Genres	Avant-garde jazz
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Guitar
Labels	ECM, Plainisphare, Challenge, Synton Records, hat art, Unit, Leo

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)
• Aerosols (Challenge/Between The Lines , 2021)^[4]

Collaborations

• No. 9 (Leo, 2013) with Yang Jing^[5][6]
• 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^[1][7]
• Glacial Voyage (Challenge/Between The Lines 2025)^[8] with Izumi Kimura

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)