An attorney for the manager of an after-hours bar says his client probably will agree to a plea bargain in the 1987 beating death of jazz musician Jaco Pastorius.

Luc Havan, 26, manager of the Midnight Bottle Club, is likely to make the plea deal on Monday and accept manslaughter charges before his second-degree murder trial is scheduled to begin, said Havan's attorney, Debra Carpenter.

Havan is charged with fatally beating the former Grammy Award nominee on Sept. 12, 1987, in an attempt to keep the bass player out of the nightclub.

Pastorius, 35, had been considered one of the most innovative new jazz bassists - playing with Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell and Blood, Sweat and Tears. He was nominated for three Grammy Awards in 1976, the year he joined the jazz group Weather Report.

By the time of his death, though, Pastorius was heavily dependent on alcohol and drugs and lived in the streets.

Havan had contended he never struck Pastorius, who fell into a coma after the incident and died 10 days later in Broward General Medical Center.

Havan, whose family owns the nightclub, could face a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, said Broward County Assistant State Attorney Lee Seidman.

No one answered the telephone at Havan's club on Tuesday; his telephone is not listed.