Mark Egan – Bass

One of the premier electric bassists of contemporary jazz, Mark Egan has distinguished himself over the past five decades with his distinctive fretless bass sound that has graced countless jazz and pop albums as well as award-winning movie and television soundtracks. An in-demand New York City studio musician who has played on multi-gold and platinum-selling recordings by Sting, Arcadia, Marc Cohn, GRP Christmas, Mecano and Joan Osborne, Egan has also recorded with a wide variety of artists from pop stars like Roger Daltrey, Sophie B. Hawkins, Marianne Faithfull, Judy Collins, Cyndi Lauper and Art Garfunkel to jazz notables like David Sanborn, John McLaughlin, John Abercrombie, Randy Brecker, Gato Barbieri, Freddy Cole, Jim Hall, Joe Beck, Pat Martino, Mark Murphy and Larry Coryell.

(Biographical information courtesy of www.MarkEgan.com)

This is the complete Egan performance of the tune ‘Goodbye Again’ from the 1986 Mike Stern album, ‘Upside Downside’. Stern writes beautiful ballads and this remains one of the most emotionally satisfying performances of the whole Stern canon and that is saying something. The part is not massively challenging as the tempo is not excessively fast so a great one to build your reading chops on.