Christy Doran
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Christy Doran is a jazz guitarist born in Dublin, Ireland and raised in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Doran founded OM 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 tribute project in the 1990s. Doran has worked with a number of well-known free jazz and avant-garde musicians such as Marty Ehrlich, Robert Dick, Ray Anderson, Han Bennink, Albert Mangelsdorff, Louis Sclavis, Marilyn Mazur, Herb Robertson, John Wolf Brennan, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and Carla Bley. 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.
[edit] Discography
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- Henceforward (1988)
- Christy Doran's Phoenix (1989)
- Corporate Art (1991)
- What a Band (1991)
- Music for Two Basses, Electric Guitar and Drums (1991)
- Shaman (2000)
- Black Box (2002)
- Heaven Is Back in the Streets (2003)
- Triangulation (2004)
- Perspectives (2005)
- Jimi (2005)
- La Fourmi (2005)
- Red Twist & Tuned Arrow (2006)
- Now's the Time (2006)
