Person · Male
Christy Doran
- From
- Greystones, Ireland
- Since
- 1949–present
- Releases
- 33
- jazz
- avant-garde jazz
- free jazz
- jazz fusion
About
Christy Doran (born 1949) is a jazz guitarist born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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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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Discography
Albums
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Harsh Romantics
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The Returning Dream of the Leaving Ship
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Henceforward
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Christy Doran's Phoenix
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Musik für zwei Kontrabässe, Elektrische Gitarre und Schlagzeug
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Corporate Art
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What a Band
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Half a Lifetime
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Play the Music of Jimi Hendrix
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Azurety
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Cheer Up
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Race the Time
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Shake, Shuttle and Blow
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SskieS
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Shaman
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Triangulation
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Jimi
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Acoustic Strings
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Crossing the Bridges
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Willisau
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XL Target
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Tribute to Fab
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No.9
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Call Me Helium: Doran Stucky Studer Tacuma Play the Music of Jimi Hendrix
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Kontaktchemie
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144 Strings for a Broken Chord Apple Music
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It's About Time
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On The Go
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Aerosols
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Conversation #10: Inland
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In Trance We Trust
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Concerts
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- 42794669-24f6-4dbc-8a04-24f87d27a64d
- ISNI
- 0000000078392308
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 12 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.