Christy Doran

Christy Doran
Christy Doran in 2007
Christy Doran in 2007
Background information
Born1949
Dublin, Ireland
GenresAvant-garde jazz
OccupationMusician
InstrumentGuitar
LabelsECM, Plainisphare

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]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference salt peanuts was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "Christy Doran Bio". Christy Doran. Archived from the original on April 12, 2021. Retrieved October 13, 2019.
  3. ^ "Christy Doran - Professor - Hochschule Luzern". LinkedIn. Retrieved October 13, 2019.