Results for "Christy Doran"

OM: It's About Time

by Ian Patterson
October 31, 2020

In 1982, after five albums in ten years, Swiss free-jazz quartet OM called it a day—its four members, Christy Doran, Fredy Studer, Urs Leimgruber and Bobby Burri going their separate ways. A supposed one-off reunion in 2007 to open an exhibition on the youth movement of the 1960s and 1970s led to a successful series of ...

Christy Doran's Sound Fountain: Lift The Bar

by Ian Patterson
May 6, 2020

With four records in as many years Christy Doran's Sound Fountain seems in 2020 to have eclipsed New Bag as the guitarist's going concern. However, just because New Bag hasn't recorded since Elsewhere (Double Moon, 2015) doesn't mean that the band, founded in 1997, won't still make a comeback. After all, who could have foreseen the ...

Christy Doran

Born: 1949

Christy Doran was born in Dublin, Ireland and has lived in Lucerne, Switzerland since his childhood. His father was an Irish ballad singer, providing Christy with his first exposure to music.

In the 1970's he was a founding member (along with Fredy Studer, Urs Leimgruber and Bobby Burri) of the seminal Swiss band "OM". Tours throughout Europe, radio/TV - appearances, workshops, music for ballet, theatre and film. Over the years, his career has included countless solo concerts, in which he regularly pushes to the limits the capabilities of a single guitar. He has played in duos with Marty Ehrlich, Harry Pepl, Fritz Hauser, Dave Doran, Dom Um Romao, John Wolf-Brennan, Robert Dick, Ray Anderson, among others. After playing in a trio with Jasper van't Hof, he went on to form the "Christy Doran's May 84" septet with Norma Winstone, Trilok Gurtu, Urs Leimgruber, Rosko Gee, Dom Um Romao and Dave Doran. He has been a member of the "Peter Warren Quartet" with Victor Lewis and John Surman, and "RED TWIST & TUNED ARROW" with Stephan Wittwer and Fredy Studer (1985 - 1987).

For The Kick Of It

By Christy Doran

Label: Between the Lines
Released: 2019
Track listing: Every Dog Has Its Day; Thanks to Otmar; Andromeda; Abstracción Felina; Fountain V; The Spanish Moment; For The Kick Of It; Fountain II.

Lift The Bar

By Christy Doran

Label: Between the Lines
Released: 2019
Track listing: Lift The Bar; Aftertaste; Oneiron Street; Next Up; Out Of The Rats Race; One For The Road; Wrong Place Wrong Time.

Christy Doran's Sound Fountain: For The Kick Of It

by Ian Patterson
July 13, 2019

Released shortly before turning seventy, Christy Doran's third outing with Sound Fountain finds the Irish-born, Lucerne-based guitarist playing as well as at any time during his fifty-year career. It marks a blistering return for Doran to electric trio terrain, following the experimentation of 144 Strings for a Broken Chord (Between the Lines, 2018)—compositions for twenty electric ...

Brilliant Corners 2019

by Ian Patterson
March 19, 2019

Brilliant Corners 2019 The Black Box/Sonic Lab Belfast, N. Ireland March 2-9, 2019 For many years the words brilliant, jazz and Belfast rarely appeared in the same sentence. That all changed in 2013 when music promoters Moving On Music launched Brilliant Corners, subtitled A Festival of Jazz in Belfast. Since then, ...

144 Strings For A Broken Chord

By Christy Doran

Label: Between the Lines
Released: 2018
Track listing: Cannon Street Canon; Andromeda; Gunslingers; Broken Chords; Bad News Babe; Goin’ In On The Way Out; Bows and Wahs.

Âme Sèche

By Christy Doran

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: #1 – #13

Walter Fähndrich - Christy Doran - Remo Schnyder - Samuel Wettstein: Âme Sèche

by Glenn Astarita
December 14, 2018

The literal translation of the album title from French to English looks to be 'soul dryer,' but in reality it could imply something else. Regardless, this international quartet abides by a surfeit of unorthodoxies. And while guitar hero Christy Doran is perhaps well-known to the global avant-jazz, improvisation and jazz fusion audience, the other artists' musical ...