Jon Fasman

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573 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 17 Jul

Jon Fasman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 15 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 7.

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Pregnant pause: India’s slumping fertility · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

That put him in the same league as his heroes, Charlie Bird Park. voice-verified

Parker and John Coltrane. voice-verified

His head was already full to bursting with scraps of musical material he had laid down over the years. voice-verified

Ato's brother played on the violin, Fat Swaller on the family's piano roll, jukebox tunes and bars, pop songs and ballads from cheap gramophones, and the jazz that sounded all over Harlem from clubs and open windows. voice-verified

The pianist Thelonius Monk, who you can hear him playing with on The Way You Look Tonight, mentored him. voice-verified

And the saxophonist Coleman Hawkins lived up the street. voice-verified

He revered both of them, and from eight years old, Tony the Alto Saxis. voice-verified

mother had given him. voice-verified

He knew a musical life was for him too. voice-verified

His improvisations drew on all of this. voice-verified

He loved playing quotes, and after any number of rhythmic and harmonic variations, each one could be joined to another. voice-verified

An aria from here, an occasional swinging Broadway ballad, like Sorry with a fringe on top from Oklahoma, a cheeky half-heard riff. voice-verified

It was as if all music had a natural unity, and he believed it had. voice-verified

He would walk onto every stage with his mind a blank, waiting for a fresh thought or a fresh note to fall upon it. voice-verified

Because he played with Bird, Coltrane, the trumpeter Miles Davis, and the drummer Max Roach, he was often called a Bebop star. voice-verified

But he wouldn't be pigeonholed that way. voice-verified

The freshness of Bebop when it appeared in the 1940s, with its speed, intricacy, and long solos, certainly suited him. voice-verified

Its strictures didn't, because he was naturally free. voice-verified

He often fused jazz with Calypso in homage to his mother, who came from St. voice-verified

Thomas in the Virgin Islands. voice-verified

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