Genres Jazz fusion, Jazz Name Mark Egan Labels Wavetone records | Years active 1976 - present Instruments Bass guitar, trumpet | |
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Born January 14, 1951 (age 73)
Brockton, Massachusetts, United States ( 1951-01-14 ) Occupation(s) Musician
Composer
Bandleader
Producer Associated acts Elements
Pat Metheny Group Role Bass guitarist · markegan.com Education Frost School of Music, University of Miami Music groups Pat Metheny Group (1977 – 1980), The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band Albums Blue Asphalt, American Garage, Pat Metheny Group, California Concert: The Holly, CTI Summer Jazz at th | ||
Mark egan
Mark Egan (born 1951 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American jazz bassist and trumpeter known for his membership in the Pat Metheny Group and the Gil Evans Orchestra. He is co-founder of the jazz fusion band, Elements.
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Mark McDanel Egan was born in Brockton, Massachusetts in 1951. Influenced by his father, he studied trumpet at age 10. He played the trumpet throughout high school, and began playing the bass when he was 15. While attending the University of Miami's Frost School of Music, initially as a trumpet student, he studied with jazz educator Jerry Coker. He switched from trumpet to bass part way through the program. While in Miami he also became friends and performed with Ira Sullivan, Pat Metheny, Danny Gottlieb, Clifford Carter. His teachers included Jaco Pastorius, Dave Holland, and Andy LaVerne.
In 1975, after graduate school, Egan went on tour with Eumir Deodato and the Pointer Sisters and recorded with David Sanborn. Two years later he worked as a studio musician in New York City, where he met Joe Beck and Steve Khan. He was part of the Pat Metheny Group until 1980, then with the Group's drummer, Danny Gottlieb, started the jazz fusion band Elements. They were joined by Bill Evans on saxophone and Clifford Carter on keyboards. Elements recorded and toured through the 1990s. During the 1980s and 1990s, Egan was also part of the Gil Evans Orchestra. He founded his own record label, Wavetone Records.
Egan has made three music videos: Om Yoga & Meditation, Music on the Edge, and Bass Workshop. He has appeared on the soundtracks of movies including Two Moon Junction, The Object of My Affection, You've Got Mail and The Color of Money. He recorded an album, Urge, with trumpeter Forrest Buchtel, Jr., featuring, among other things, the theme from CNN Headline News.
Egan has recorded with Sting, Arcadia, Roger Daltrey and Joan Osborne; performed with Marianne Faithfull, John McLaughlin, and Sophie B. Hawkins and has played on the soundtracks to Aladdin, The Color of Money, and A Chorus Line.