Christy Doran is a jazz guitarist

Jazz guitarist

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 born in Dublin, Ireland

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 and raised in Lucerne

Lucerne

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, Switzerland

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Doran founded OM

Om (band)

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 with Fredy Studer, Urs Leimgrumber, and Bobby Burri in the 1970s; this ensemble recorded for ECM Records. He and Studer also worked together on a Jimi Hendrix

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 tribute project in the 1990s. Doran has worked with a number of well-known free jazz

Free jazz

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 and avant-garde

Avant-garde jazz

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 musicians such as Marty Ehrlich

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, Robert Dick

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, Ray Anderson

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, Han Bennink

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, Albert Mangelsdorff

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, Louis Sclavis

Louis Sclavis

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, Marilyn Mazur

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, Herb Robertson

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, John Wolf Brennan

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, Patrice Héral, Jamaaladeen Tacuma

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, and Carla Bley

Carla Bley

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. Doran founded New Bag in 1997, and toured the world from 1998 to 2000 with the ensemble. Doran now teaches at the Musikhochschule at Lucerne.

Discography

• Harsh Romantics (1984)
• The Returning Dream of the Leaving Ship (1986)
• Red Twist & Tuned Arrow (1987)
• Henceforward (1988)
• Christy Doran's Phoenix (1989)
• Corporate Art (1991)
• What a Band (1991)
• Musik für zwei Kontrabässe, elektrische Gitarre und Schlagzeug (1991)
• Play The Music Of Jimi Hendrix (1995)
• Race the Time (1997)
• Shaman (2000)
• Black Box (2002)
• Heaven Is Back in the Streets (2003)
• Triangulation (2004)
• Confusing The Spirits (2004)
• Perspectives (2005)
• Jimi (2005)
• La Fourmi (2005)
• Now's the Time (2006)
• “Triangulation: Whirligigs“ (2010)