Jon Evans Music

 

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Work

 

Video Game Soundtracks

The Binding of Isaac - Rebirth
The Binding of Isaac - Afterbirth
Super Meat Boy - 5th Anniversary
The Legend of Bumbo
BumboGenesis
The End is Nigh
Fingered

 

Podcasts

This American Life
Frontline Dispatch (WGBH)
Against The Rules (Pushkin)
The Last Archive (Pushkin)
The Moth Radio Hour (WGBH)

 

Film Scores

Mission Impossible 2
Sweet Crude
Liberty and Justice (composer)
Life on Wheels (composer)

Collaborators

Cher
Third Eye Blind
Paula Cole
Linda Perry
Wil Bernard
Marcie Brown
Grayson Hugh
John Pousett-Dart
Darol Anger
Bill Frisell
Jeremy Flower
Scott Amendola
Dan Phelps
Kate Borkowski
Betty Buckley
Sasha Dobson
Trio Vivo
Chandler Travis
Ledisi
Bruce Forman
Adam Levy
Vicki Randle
Alex DiGrassi
Boca Do Rio
Jim Campilongo
Kate Isenberg
Mimi Fox
Jacqui Naylor
Spencer Day
Charlie Hunter
TJ Kirk
Jamie Davis
Valerie Orth
The Billy Nayer Show
Alexis Harte

Tori Amos
Ben Folds
Vanessa Carlton
Elton John
Matthew Morrison
Tin Hat Trio
Leona Ness
Chris Cornell
Sarah Maclaughlin
G-Love
The Parkington Sisters
Tanya Donnelly
Steve Smith
Rabbit Rabbit Radio
Carla Khilstedt
Rebecca Paris
Kenny Werner
Boz Scaggs
Nels Cline
Taylor Eigsti
Rita Moreno
Monica Rizzio
David Wilcox
Catie Curtis
Zachary Ross
Carla Zilber Smith
Rachel Efron
Jennifer Berezan
Rick Didia
Aireene Espiritu
Dave MacNab
Mark Little
Geoff Pearlman
Locura

Television Appearances

Late Night with David Letterman (9) 
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (11)
The Today Show
Conan O’Brien (3)
Live with Kelly and Michael
Good Morning America (3)
ABC Morning (2)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Craig Kilborn
Craig Ferguson (4)
Sessions at West 54th
VH1 Storytellers
AOL Sessions
“Live from Sony Studios” (a PBS Broadcast)
The Jools Holland Show (2) (UK)
Top of the Pops (UK)
Rove Live (Aus)
The Graham Norton Show (UK)

 

Commercial Sessions

Nike
Nabisco
Hewlett Packard
Kellogg’s
Anheuser Busch
Microsoft
Juniper
Junos
Men's Wearhouse
Cisco

 

Music Videos

Freeway - Linda Perry
Bliss - Tori Amos
Welcome To Sunny Florida - Tori Amos

 

Discography


Geoff Perlman - Lost In the Satellites
I produced and played bass. Geoff is SO talented.

G-Love - Comin' Home For Christmas
I produced this record with G - played bass, tracked and mixed in 4 days. Old school vibes, by far the most fun vinyl in my collection!

G-Love - This Warm December
Holiday compilation including tracks with Jack Johnson.

Jeremy Flower - The Real Me
This record has remained one of my favorite of all time, period.

Rabbit Rabbit Radio - Vol 1
Vol 1 of our song in a day every month series.

Rabbit Rabbit Radio - Vol 2
Song in a day - once a month.

Rabbit Rabbit Radio - Year of the Wooden Horse
Vol 3 in what has turned out to be a multi year experiment turned great!

Tori Amos - To Venus and Back
This is a great 2 disc set where you get one disc of studio craft as well as a disc full of great live performances.

Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls
I played bass on this one, covers of freaky songs you might have forgotten about.

Tori Amos - Scarlett's Walk
I think this is some of Tori's best songwriting. Getting to play bass on this was like a gift for me.

Tori Amos - Tales of a Librarian
Songs that span a career.

Tori Amos - Welcome to Sunny Florida
It rained so hard that my bass is still wet. It was great to document the trio though!

Tori Amos - The Beekeeper
Playing bass on this record was a trip. So many styles!

Tori Amos - American Doll Posse
We rocked this one for sure! There's more distorted bass on this record than any other that I've made.

Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin
Bass, bass and more bass.

Tori Amos - Midwinter Graces
I played mostly upright on this one, as well as my nylon string acoustic bass guitar.

Tanya Donelly & The Parkington Sisters - Automatic
Bass, engineer, mix engineer

Jaggery - Crux
At times haunting, at times terrifying. Such a great record featuring the inimitable vocals of Mali Sastri.

Marcus Eaton - Versions of the Truth
Great guitar playing on this record with some very special guests. Erik Eldinius, David Crosby.

Paula Cole - Tis Bright Red Feeling
It's always an honor to get to play with Paula, glad I didn't know the tape was rolling for this very special night!

Catie Curtis - While We're Here
So lucky to have been involved in such a soulful record, with my friends Julie Wolf and Matthias Bossi.

Grace Morrison - I'm The Apple
Incredibly hooky Country/Americana album from an immensely talented writer and performer.

Jacqui Naylor - The Long Game
Tracked and mixed at Brick Hill, yours truly on bass.

Kate Borkowski - The Orchard
A more high energy follow up to Kate's fantastic Polymorph.

Kate Borkowski - Polymorph
Incredibly diverse and adventurous album full of string arrangements and plenty of twists and turns!

Mimi Fox - Perpetually Hip
Jazz shredder Mimi Fox. You can hear me on upright bass. Engineer, producer.

Mimi Fox - She's the Woman
Upright bass, producer, engineer.

Jacqui Naylor - Lucky Girl
Upright and electric bass, co-producer, engineer.

Jacqui Naylor - You Don't Know Jaq
Upright and electric bass, engineer.

Jacqui Naylor - Smashed for the Holidays
Upright and electric bass, engineer.

Jacqui Naylor - The Color Five
Upright and electric bass, co-producer, engineer.

Jacqui Naylor - Live East West
Upright bass. Recorded live at Yoshi's Oakland.

Jacqui Naylor - Shelter
Great songs on this record. I played upright and electric bass. I engineered and co-produced this with Jacqui and Art.

James Harries - Days Like These
BASS. One of the great voices of all time.

Will Bernard - Party Hats
Grammy Nominated - engineered and produced by myself and Will.

Third Eye Blind - Ursa Major
We tracked this one to tape- as you should! I used Stephen's pre-CBS jazz bass for the entire thing. Give me that bass!

Vanessa Carlton - Heroes and Thieves
Tracked in SF, I played bass. Vanessa was a sweetheart.

David Wilcox - Open Hand
We made this record at Sonic Temple in Northern California. Live and to 2" tape. The only editing that took place was with a razor blade! AWESOME!

Tin Hat Trio - Helium
What an honor. Tin Hat, Tom Waits, little ol' me on bass.

Kitty Margolis - Heart and Soul
What a fun record. Alli Miller swings her ass off, and Michael Bluestein pounds the piano into a tuning maelstrom. I'm on upright bass having a blast while Kitty does her inimitable thing.

Jim Campilongo - Live at the DuNord
Favorite guitar tone ever! Jim's a class act. I'm on upright bass - captured live at the Cafe Du Nord.

Alex De Grassi - Tata Monk
I play upright on this one. A strange and wonderful mix of Andean traditional melodies as imagined through the eyes of Thelonius Monk.

Joel Harrison - Transience
You can hear me play upright and electric on this dense but beautiful record.

Steven Emerson - Set In Motion
Super vibe-y record. (Producer, Recordist, Bass)

TJ Kirk - Talking Only Makes It Worse
Mixed by me, from a live recording in SF.

Jamie Davis - It's All About Love
What a voice! I play upright bass on this record, as well as all engineering.

Zachary Ross - Take Me
We were lucky enough to have Matt Chamberlain come in for this record. Produced and engineered by me to 2"! (Electric bass)

Toby Beard - Sleeptalk
What a talent, I worked on half the record. (Electric Bass, Engineer)

Valerie Orth - Far Away City
We got really creative with this record. Produced and engineered by me. I played bass, guitar and wrote the string arrangements.

Jennifer Berezan - End of Desire
Co-produced by Julie Wolf and myself. (Bass, Engineer)

Jennifer Berezan - Home
Jennifer let me help out a lot with this one - bass, guitar, engineer, producer, string arrangements, choir arrangements.

James Harries - Growing Pains
Bass.

Alexis Harte - 6 Spoons of Honey
One of my favorite musical partnerships! (producer, engineer, bass, guitar, vocal arranging)

ALexis Harte - Big Red Sun
Producer, engineer, guitar, bass, haunted whistles!

Alexis Harte - Tumbling
Our first collaboration - the sign of things to come. Check out Seed with Scott Amendola! (bass, engineer, producer)

Locura - Semilla Caminente
High energy Spanish rock! (producer, engineer, bass, guitar)

Lissy Walker - Life Is Sweet
Magical album. (upright bass, producer, engineer)

Marty WIlliams - Long Time Comin'

Rachel Efron - 4am

Rachel Efron - Say Goodbye

Mike Zilber - The BIlly Collins Project
Very cool concept. Set the U.S. poet laureate's poems to music! I mixed this one.

Didia-Espiritu - The Ten Ton Feather
What a GREAT record. These two write incredible music. I played bass, some guitar, a little piano and engineered and produced.

Geoff Pearlman - Anything At All
Genius songwriter. You can hear me on electric and upright bass. (engineer)

Geoff Pearlman - Someplace Like Nowhere
Electric bass, engineer.

Dave MacNab - Tree-O
Engineer.

Dave MacNab - Sonic Blue
Engineer.

Chad Perrone - Release
Electric Bass. Man can this guy sing!

Monica Rizzio - Washashore Cowgirl
We had a ball making this record. Great songs with tons of special guests. Yee Ha!

Crystal Monee Hall - River Train
Bass. What a singer!

Spencer Day - Vagabond
Bass. It's only a matter of time before Spencer is a household name.

Janam - My Soul
Engineer. Lots of really interesting acoustic instruments on this one.

Matthew Morrison
Bass on a couple of classic Elton John tracks - with Sir Elton himself!

Marcie Brown - Reflections Over Brandy
Upright and electric bass. (Producer, engineer)

Marcie Brown - Butterfly Girl
Grammy Nominated! (Producer, engineer, upright bass)

Damien Masterson - All Over The Map
Producer, engineer, upright and electric bass.

Stacy Kray - My Last Eye
Bass, string arrangements.

Damond Moodie - Wrestling With Giants
Damond is a "must hear" singer songwriter. (engineer, co-producer)

Lenka Dusilova
Bass. Lenka is a musical force.

Zachary Ross - On My Side
Produced by yours truly, this is the more intimate side of Zach Ross.

Bill Frisell - East / West
Bill is one of my biggest musical heroes, I digitally edited with a light hand.

Boca Do Rio
Brazilian beats, original music, I played electric bass on this record. I engineered and mixed this. Produced by myself and Kevin.

Jessica Lurie - Licorice and Smoke
Produced, engineered and mixed by myself. Upright bass with the incredible Nels Cline on guitar.

Crowsong - Shelter/Eternal
Engineer. Awesome Americana.

Austin Willacy - Page 7
Co-produced by Austin and myself. You can hear my on electric and upright bass along with Andrew Borger on Drums. (engineer)

Red Pocket
Engineer.

Kate Isenberg - Gold Rush Town
Beautiful record full of great songs. (Producer, engineer, bass, guitars)

Kate Isenberg - The Time Comes On Humming Tracks
Kate's first record. She recorded it at home, I was lucky enough to get involved with the mix. Great music.

Bolt - Shuffle
Get your free jazz on! Recorded live in the studio.

Schuyler Grant - Until The Last Light Fades
Schuyler can SING-AND-PLAY. Absolutely rocking record.

Action at a Distance
You can hear my bass playing here. These two write great music, a must hear.

Alexis Harte - A Perfect Waste of Time
Another fantastic record from a songwriter that never seems to run out of ideas. Produced coast to coast!