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 Records. He and Studer worked together on a Jimi Hendrix tribute album in the 1990s.^[1]

Doran has worked with free jazz and avant-garde musicians, such as Ray Anderson, Han Bennink, Robert Dick, Marty Ehrlich, Albert Mangelsdorff, Patrice Héral, Marilyn Mazur, Louis Sclavis, Herb Robertson, John Wolf Brennan, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and Carla Bley.^[1]

Doran founded New Bag in 1997, and toured the world from 1998 to 2000 with the ensemble. Doran has taught at the Musikhochschule at Lucerne.^[1]

Discography

• Harsh Romantics (1984)
• Christy Doran's May 84 (1985)
• The Returning Dream of the Leaving Ship (1986)
• Red Twist & Tuned Arrow (ECM, 1987)
• Henceforward (1988)
• Christy Doran's Phoenix (hatArt, 1989)
• Corporate Art (JMT, 1991)
• What a Band (Hathut, 1991)
• Musik für zwei Kontrabässe, elektrische Gitarre und Schlagzeug (1991) (ECM)
• Play the Music of Jimi Hendrix (Intuition, 1995)
• Race the Time (1997)
• Shaman (2000)
• Black Box (2002)
• Heaven Is Back in the Streets (Double Moon, 2003)
• Triangulation (Leo, 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)
• ABD (Hatology, 2011)
• No. 9 (Leo, 2013)
• Belle Epoque (Between the Lines, 2016)
• Call Me Helium (Double Moon, 2016)

With Joe McPhee

• Linear B (Hat Hut, 1990)

References