Christy Doran | |
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 Christy Doran in 2007 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 1949 Dublin, Ireland |
| Genres | Avant-garde jazz |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument | Guitar |
| Labels | ECM, Plainisphare, Challenge, Synton Records, hat art, Unit, Leo |
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 [1] and Carla Bley. [2] Doran founded New Bag in 1997 and toured the world from 1998 to 2000 with the ensemble. Doran has taught at the Musikhochschule Luzern [2] [1] since 1990. [3]
