Jon Fasman
speaker
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 · last 12 monthsRecordings 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
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Thomas was one of the most celebrated tracks on Saxophone Colossus.
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Another Blue Seven mixed jazz with blues.
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For a time he got rid of pianists who annoyed him because they limited his harmonic range.
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He liked trios best, a drummer and a bassist, faithfully following along.
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And he could lead them anywhere for his jazz.
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Especially, he felt, on the albums Freedom Suite, A Night at the Village Vanguard, and Way Out West, which was big picture stuff in which everything came together.
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It was the unification of music.
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It was all one.
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God perhaps.
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His serenity, on stage and off, disguised his rough road to fame.
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Because as a young man he saw Charlie Parker as his messiah, and Bird was on drugs.
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He used heroin himself to see if he could end up playing like that.
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All it did was set him to stealing, for which he eventually served ten months at Breiker's Island.
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In nineteen fifty five, after some tough rehabilitation, he was clean again, and he stayed that way.
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It was Byrd himself who had told him to stop and consider what he had to give to music.
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That set him thinking.
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He had always considered music, like God Bless the Child written by Billy Holiday.
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As a gift to him.
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Ever since he had blown his first notes as a child.
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