Dr. Jazz Talks

New interview from the Dr. Jazz Talks interview series, this time Mark Egan - incredible bassist and composer, with a great last album entitled Cross Currents…
We talk about Mark's beginnings and influences, being a bandleader, playing with Pat Metheny, Gil Evans, David Sanborn and others, the US and European jazz scene, his improvisational and compositional approaches, etc…
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[@ghostjazztrio]

Lol, it's interesting that Mark spoke of him and Danny doing a duo thing in Hawaii, because I was managing a restaurant called Mark Edison's in Ioa valley on the island of Maui, where they performed once. The reason I remember, is that Mark would use a DigiTech PDS 1002 2000s - Blue, I believe it was, but he had forgot to bring it. Mark would set up a groove on the looper and then they would jam over it. I heard him telling Danny that he forgot it, and I chimed in and said I have the exact same unit. So I went home and got it for him to use for the few nights they performed. I had some great conversations with Danny about options I could pursue as a young guitarist. I ended up recording a demo tape at George Benson's recording studio in Maui and move to Venice CA, where I shopped the tape to many labels and studios. Small world. Danny and Mark played some cool stuff. LOL, I remember Danny was annoyed that we played Smooth Operator by Sade on the lodge speakers a lot. Mark talked about how he did a ton of session work playing music for soap operas, commercials and so on. By the way, Gary Husband and I look forward to doing our interview with you in July. James Morgan

[@anitapasquale9999]

Thanks for this. I'm a big fan of the version of PMG that Mark was in. His playing on San Lorenzo was out of this world and unforgettable. I consider it one of the greatest songs ever recorded.

[@vbassone]

I think Jim Hall played with Steve Swallow mostly when Swallow was still primarily an upright player, like on the Art Farmer record(s). I don't think there is that much, if anything, with Jim Hall playing with Swallow on electric bass.