Evan Marien: “Havona” (Jaco Pastorius Solo Bass Cover)

Evan Marien has taken one of Jaco Pastorius’ great compositions, “Havona” and put his spin on it. Evan took the chord changes for the tune, programmed some backing tracks on his computer, and let it rip on his bass.

Evan shares the details:

“I’m playing and soloing over the chord changes to Havona by Jaco Pastorius:
Emaj7#11 Cmaj7#11 Bmaj7#11 Gmaj7#11
Emin7-Emaj7 Cmaj7#11 Bmaj7#11 Gmaj7#11
Bsus4 for a couple bars then the awesome line to finish the section, which I think of as Cmaj7#11”

And the specs:

“Recorded from the direct out of my Markbass amp into Logic Pro. Also used the Markbass Markstudio 1 plug-in to shape bass tone. Used Reason 6 to program the tracks.”

[Editor’s note: check out our transcription of Evan’s arrangement.]

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Leave a Reply to Jeffrey Biegel Cancel reply

  1. man. can’t stop watching this one Evan! incredible job homie…

  2. yeah I love this piece- jaco really hit the badass button on this one.

    hearing this take on it is refreshing and pure proof that good music has staying power despite generation gaps…also evan marien is very, very, very good at bass.

    8^)

  3. Young man your feel is fantastic!

  4. When you read the Urantia book, especially the seciton on havona, you can really feel the inspiration for this song. Well done bro.

  5. Truly excellent. It held my attention from start to end.

  6. Really dope man sound amazing the only thing I think is interesting is you think they last line as Cmaj7#11 I always though of it all as Bsus4 just cause it is the perfect chord to lead back to the Emaj7#11 but both Cmaj7#11 and the Bsus4 have alot of common tones so it works.

  7. Very nice playing, Evan.

  8. Great groove and command of the instrument. Very musical. I’m glad to see it. Move it forward, Evan.

  9. Great ……..here’s my try to this awsome tune …..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqVohKiumT4

  10. bvdon

    I’ve seen this before and repeated… great version. One of the more interesting bass players out there right now.

  11. the whole thing is cool but 2:12 thru 2:30 is killin’