Ryan Meagher - Lost Days (FRESH SOUND NEW TALENT RECORDS 2018)

Ryan Meagher (pronounced Marr) is a jazz guitarist and composer who grew up in San Jose, California. His teenage years were split between taking ground balls and hitting soft-toss on ball fields with stomping on distortion pedals and kicking over mic stands in garage band rehearsals. He launched his international reputation in New York City in 2003 after completing his bachelor of music degree at San Diego State University. During his years in New York, he released his debut jazz album "Sun Resounding," followed by his second album entitled "Atroefy" on Fresh Sound New Talent Records (FSNT). His third album "Tone," also on FSNT, was created while he was splitting time between graduate studies at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) and New York City.

Not soon after relocating to Portland, Meagher teamed up with the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble, the local non-profit organization (of which he would later become an important leader), and recorded a live album that would be released on their budding record label, PJCE Records. “Tango in the City of Roses," was recorded live in concert at Ivories jazz club in 2014 alongside his mentor from UNR, Peter Epstein (alto and soprano sax), George Colligan (piano), Chris Higgins (bass), and Matt Mayhall (drums). The album is a confluence of regionality in that Meagher, Epstein, and Mayhall all shared Reno as a home base for some time; Colligan, Higgins, Epstein, and Meagher resided in Portland at one time or another; and Epstein, Colligan, Higgins, and Meagher all called New York City home for a period.

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01. Bayou Brasileira

02. Absurdly Delinquent

03. Lost Days

04. Brook’s Little Blues

05. Introduction to Heart-Whole

06. Heart-Whole

07. South Slope

08. Deep Ocean Hall

09. Meagher

10. Bayou Brasileira (Surf Reprise)

All tracks written by Ryan Meaghe

Ryan Meagher (guitar, Irish bouzouki & glockenspiel)

Bill McHenry (tenor sax)

George Colligan (piano, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer electric piano & Fender Rhodes)

Chris Higgins (bass)

Mark Ferber (drums)

Recorded at Map Room Studios, in Portland, Oregon, April 13 & 14, 2017