Career
Egan has maintained a solo career, with three platinum and three gold albums to his cr, and has served as bandleader of his own ensembles to positive reviews. Egan has additionally played on soundtracks for film, and has kept busy as a session musician, often contributing his skills to many famous musicians, within a variety of genres. Egan has recorded with Sting, Arcadia, Roger Daltrey and Joan Osborne, among others
Performed with Marianne Faithfull, David Sanborn, John McLaughlin, and Sophie B. Hawkins. and has played on the soundtracks to such American television shows and movies as Aladdin, The Color of Money, A Chorus Lincolnshire, National Broadcasting Company Sports, American Broadcasting Company"s All My Children, "Cable News Network/Headline News" and numerous television commercials.
Egan continues to tour and record worldwide with his group as well as, Bill Evans, Larry Coryell and various other artists. Early career Influenced by his father, Egan first studied trumpet at age 10.
He played the trumpet throughout high school, and began playing the bass casually 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
Within that same group was the now-famous fretless bass guitarist, Jaco Pastorius, who Egan lists specifically as a revolutionary performer and influence. Since Pastorius and Egan both lived in Florida in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Egan got to know him and even studied Pastorius" approach to the bass, going so far as to take formal courses with him. Egan has released eight albums as a leader.
One of the most recent,, features pianist Mitchel Forman and drummer and former Pat Metheny Group bandmate Danny Gottlieb.
Within, the group that he co-leads with Danny Gottlieb, he has released 10 recordings. 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.
Egan is also featured on drummer Ken Serio"s 2008 release Live. In The Moment. He recorded an album, Urge, with trumpeter Forrest Buchtel, Junior., featuring, among other things, the theme from Cable News Network Headline News.