Christy Doran

Swiss musician

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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Works

'Seen a Man About a Dog
A B D
A Day in the Life of a Siren (Who Mistook Her Husband for an Umbrella)
A Racket 1
A Racket 2
Alien Abduction (Trio version)
Ambivalent Amplitude
B & D
Backtalk
Barrel Without Bottom
Beautiful No Mans Land
Belle Epoque
Belluard
Buckethead
Canton
Cheer Up
Chemistries I
Chemistries II
Circumstances
Collage
Coupon
Envelope Generator
Federal
For the Kick of It
Heights
Heitere Gelassenheit
Incognito
M = Ec²
Ma Perché
Mind Matters
Moving East (Duo version)
Mutations
Never Done
New H. G.
New Outline
No Matter Where You Roam
No Return
Odeon
Old Town
Open House
Opéra Perdu (Per Due; Per Tre)
Partners in Crime
Pollo
Quasar
Race the Time
SCD
Scuppernong Song
Siren
Tabasco Cart
That Limmat Thing
The Other Side of the Fence (Duo version)
The Same But Different
Throng Song
To the Peak (And Back)
Tribal Link – One
Tribal Link – Three
Tribal Link – Two
Voltage Oscillator
Wandering Dune
You'd Never Know You Know