Christy Doran (born 1949) is a

jazz guitarist Jazz guitarists are guitarists who play jazz using an approach to chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines that is called jazz guitar playing. The guitar has fulfilled the roles of accompanist (rhythm guitar) and soloist in small and large ens ...

born in

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, Ireland, and raised in

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, Switzerland. Doran founded OM with

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, and Bobby Burri in the 1970s; this ensemble recorded for

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. He and Studer also worked on a

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tribute project in the 1990s. Doran has worked with

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and

avant-garde jazz Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz, experimental jazz, or "new thing") is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. It originated in the early 1950s and developed through the late 1 ...

musicians such as

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, Robert Dick, Ray Anderson,

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, ,

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and

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. Doran founded New Bag in 1997 and toured the world from 1998 to 2000 with the ensemble. Doran has taught at the

Musikhochschule Luzern The Lucerne School of Music (''Hochschule Luzern – Musik'') is a professional school for musicians located in Lucerne, Switzerland, and closely associated with the city's annual music festival. It is a division of the Lucerne University of Appli ...

since 1990.

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'' (

, 1987) * ''Henceforward'' (Line Music/Core, 1989) * ''Christy Doran's Phoenix'' (

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, 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'' (

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, 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)

Collaborations

* ''No. 9'' (Leo, 2013) with

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* Christy Doran's Sound Fountain – ''Belle Epoque'' (Between the Lines, 2016) * ''Call Me Helium'' (Double Moon, 2016) with

, Erika Stucky * ''Kontaktchemie'' (Boomslang Records, 2016) with Alfred Vogel

As sideman

With Ray Anderson and

* '' Azurety'' (hat ART, 1994) * ''

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'' (hat ART, 1995) With

* ''

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'' (Hat Hut, 1990)

References

External links

* * Christy Doranat

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Doran, Christy 1949 births Living people ECM Records artists Irish jazz guitarists Swiss jazz guitarists Irish emigrants to Switzerland Irish male guitarists 20th-century Irish guitarists 21st-century Irish guitarists Musicians from County Dublin