Christy Doran

Swiss musician

Born: 21 June 1949
Dublin
Country: Ireland
Record labels: ECM Records
Discography: 2 albums

Biography

Christy Doran is a jazz musician who plays guitar. Christy Doran was born on 21 June 1949 in Dublin. The music is usually filed under jazz and jazz fusion. Record labels: ECM Records. The discography here lists 2 albums, from “Race the Time” (1997) to “Call Me Helium: Doran Stucky Studer Tacuma Play the Music of Jimi Hendrix” (2015).

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, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Phil Minton, Joe McPhee and Carla Bley. Doran founded New Bag in 1997 and toured the world from 1998 to 2000 with the ensemble. Doran has taught at the Musikhochschule Luzern since 1990.

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