Q&T with Caleb Kilian & Russell Schmidt – The Big 180 (with a side of Parlando-Rubato)

VJC Q&T podcast producer (and Critics Anonymous podcast co-host) Caleb Kilian has know Valley Jazz Cooperative Director Russell Schmidt for more than a decade. And for the past five years, they have worked together as colleagues at Music Serving the Word Ministries, where Caleb serves as Media Manager and Russ is Coordinator of Education.

At the start of the Arizona Music Educators Association’s 2020 Conference, and with concert band and jazz ensemble competition season imminent for music educators all over the country, Russ sat down with Caleb to record a unique Questions and Tangents podcast, one in which the usual host was the interviewee, not the interviewer. Their wide-ranging dialogue encompassed such subjects as the intersection of objectivity and subjectivity in education, how a mentor teacher continues to impact his life thirty years after his passing, and even why musicians “playing in parallel” might not be as good a thing as it sounds.

Learn more about Caleb Kilian and Russell Schmidt here:

https://musicservingtheword.org/artist_ministers

Find the Critics Anonymous podcast (co-hosted by Caleb Kilian and Robert Garza) here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critics-anonymous/id1480289208

Learn more about some of the individuals mentioned in the podcast here:

Count Basie – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Basie

Michael Brecker – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brecker

Gabe Condon – https://www.gabecondon.com/

Duke Ellington – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington

Maynard Ferguson – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Ferguson

Paul Ferguson – http://paulfergusonmusic.com/

Herbie Hancock – https://www.herbiehancock.com/

Neal Hefti ­– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Hefti

Woody Herman – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Herman

John Hollenbeck – https://johnhollenbeck.com/

Vijay Iyer – https://vijay-iyer.com/

Thad Jones – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thad_Jones

Stan Kenton –https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Kenton

Joel McNeely – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_McNeely

Matt Mitchell – http://www.mattmitchell.us/

Sammy Nestico – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Nestico

Bud Powell – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Powell

Buddy Rich – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Rich

Maria Schneider – https://www.mariaschneider.com/

Wayne Shorter – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Shorter

Billy Strayhorn – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strayhorn

Art Tatum – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_T