V14: European Jazz Legends

CHRISTY DORAN TRIO

If Christy Doran looked anywhere near his age, the name of the group he presented in concert at the Theater Gutersloh in the summer of 2017 could easily be misread. But since the Irish-Swiss guitarist not only looks, but moves, sounds and thinks nowhere near his 68 years, this trio is surely not (primarily) a “fountain of youth,” but a collective, constructive, and ever flowing “Sound Fountain.” Doran is a founding member of OM, a Swiss Jazz-Rock-Fusion group, which took its name from an album by John Coltrane. Their 1978 collaboration with Brazilian percussionist Dom Um Romao for Japo/ECM was recently voted among Rolling Stone’s “100 greatest jazz albums.” Meanwhile Doran, who still counts Jimi Hendrix among his greatest influences, has also cofounded the jazz department of the University in Lucerne, and played in a host of different bands and projects, ranging from his own groups “New Bag” or “Bunter Hund” on to recent duets with French guitarist Noel Akchote. Sound Fountain was founded in 2014, extending a longer standing musical friendship with the Argentinian bass player Franco Fontanarrosa to include Swiss drummer Lukas Mantel. Always energetic and flowing, Sound Fountain certainly lives up to its name on this live recording.

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