 
Mark Egan playing the Pedulla 8 string fretless
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 | MARK EGAN: Mosaic
This Bass Contemporary Jazz masterpiece features world acclaimed performances and compositions by one of the current, top jazz fusion bassists.
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 | MARK EGAN: Freedom Town
This is Mark Egan, Bassist with Sting, Joan Osborne, Pat Metheny and Gil Evans in an exciting Contemporary instrumental Jazz recording featuring Drummer Danny Gottlieb, Saxophonist-Bill Evans, Keyboardist-Clifford Carter, Guitarist-Jeff Ciampa and Lew Sol
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 | ELEMENTS-MARK EGAN & DANNY GOTTLIEB: Elements Far East Volume 1
The finest in Contemporary Jazz; electrifying jazz fusion, recorded live in Japan, by leaders Mark Egan and Danny Gottlieb, the original rhythm section members of the Pat Metheny Group.
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 | ELEMENTS-MARK EGAN & DANNY GOTTLIEB: Far East Volume 2
The finest in Contemporary Jazz; electrifying jazz fusion, recorded live in Japan, by leaders Mark Egan and Danny Gottlieb, the original rhythm section members of the Pat Metheny Group. Contemporary Instrumental Jazz by the next generation of great improv
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 | ELEMENTS-MARK EGAN & DANNY GOTTLIEB: Untold Stories
The finest in Contemporary Jazz; electrifying jazz fusion, recorded live in Japan, by leaders Mark Egan and Danny Gottlieb, the original rhythm section members of the Pat Metheny Group. Contemporary Instrumental Jazz by the next generation of great improv
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 | JEFF LAIBSON- MARK EGAN-DANNY GOTTLIEB-TRIO: Thelonius Bach's Lunch
Contemporary acoustic jazz trio perfromed by all-star musicians: pianist, Jeff Laibson; bassist, Mark Egan; and drummer, Danny Gottlieb.
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Mark Egan - On Recording with Arcadia on their album So Red the Rose
I was fortunate to be asked to be a part of the Arcadia recordings.
Arcadia was a project by members of Duran Duran, Nick Rhodes and
Simon Lebon along with drummer Roger Taylor in 1985. The producer was Alex
Sadkin whom I knew from my recording days in Miami Fla. at Criteria
Recording studios. Alex also engineered a David Sanborn recording, The
David Sandborn Band that I was a member of.
It was during a recording session at Right track recording in New York
while I was in recording a solo project and Alex was producing a
Foreigner record that Alex asked me if I would be interested in recording a
project with members of Duran Duran.
A month later I was in Paris at Grand Armee' studios and my
participation involved 6 weeks of intensive recording sessions.
Long time friend and drummer Steve Jordan was also playing drums on the
session.
The instruments that I used on the sessions were my Pedulla 4 string
fretless buzz bass, Pedulla 8 string fretless and my fender 1964 Jazz
bass. The bass was recorded direct through tube direct boxes that were made
in France. I used D'Addario strings, XL170s
The way that the sessions went down was:
Simon and Nick had some pre production themes on tape. We first
listened to the basic ideas and talked about feel and form. I wrote out a
basic chord chart and then we would start playing and come up with some
grooves.
When things started coming together Alex would have the engineer, Larry
Alexander, start rolling the Mitsubishi digital tape that was being
recorded through an SSL board.
We'd listen and comment then try other versions until we had a basic
drum track to work with and possibly a bass part.
I would usually meet the producer, Alex and the engineer, Larry in the
mid morning at the studio and I would overdub five or six possible
complete bass parts for each song. Later in the day Simon and Nick would
arrive and we'd go over the parts to find something that worked.
One day Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts who were in Paris recording a
Stones record came by the studio to hang and I had the great opportunity
to play with Charlie.
It was a great experience recording the Arcadia project. I believe that
it was re-released recently with a bonus track, which I haven't heard
yet.
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