Michael Kocour's guest appearances

Michael Kocour

VJC Q&T

Paul Ferguson

Clarke Rigsby

Genevieve Rice

Nancy Buck

Snuff Garrett

Russ Forgets

Tito Carrillo

Pam Morita

Caleb Kilian

Russell Schmidt

Mary Petrich

OwlTail

VJC Q&amp;T podcast host Russell Schmidt has known pianist/organist/composer Michael Kocour for more than a dozen years. A nationally-renown educator, Mike is the Director of Jazz Studies at Arizona State University. Additionally, he is a recording artist for Origin Records, releasing a solo piano album, East of the Sun, on that label’s OA2 imprint earlier this year. In early summer, Mike sat down with Russ to partake in spirited, engaging discussions on jazz, music education, and the nature of creativity. In this second of two podcasts together, they discussed the sometimes-random nature in discovering one’s passions and influences, the deeper truths revealed on vinyl records, and even the lengthy path to be travelled just to join a school’s “stage band”. Learn more about Michael Kocour here: http://www.michaelkocour.com/ https://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/profile/michael-kocour Listen to Michael Kocour (solo piano) perform his composition Winter’s Spell here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ceKy9Y0aU Listen to Michael Kocour (organ quartet) perform his composition Chunky here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SXXrTByxyI&amp;list=OLAK5uy_nftb9Vv4HNX37Li27g2dv1_aiCC6ItNHw Purchase Michael Kocour’s recordings for the Origin Records/OA2 label here: http://originarts.com/oa2/artists/artist.php?Artist_ID=138 Learn more about some of the artists, authors, venues, and recurring sitcom characters mentioned in the podcast here: Jamey Aebersold – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamey_Aebersold Michael Brecker – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brecker Tina Brooks – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Brooks Jerry Coker – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Coker Chick Corea – http://chickcorea.com/ Joe Daley – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Daley_(musician) Keith Emerson – https://www.keithemerson.com/ Bill Evans – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Evans Joel Frahm – https://joelfrahm.com/ Benny Golson – https://www.bennygolson.com/ Herbie Hancock – https://www.herbiehancock.com/ Alfred Hitchcock – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock Scott Joplin – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Joplin Wynton Kelly – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynton_Kelly Gladys Kravitz – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bewitched_characters#Gladys_Kravitz Brad Mehldau – https://www.bradmehldau.com/ Roger Miller – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Miller Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart Lewis Nash – https://www.lewisnash.com/ Herbie Nichols – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie_Nichols Oscar Peterson – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Peterson Clarke Rigsby – https://tempestrecording.com/ Antonio Salieri – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Salieri David Sax – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sax Craig Taborn – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Taborn McCoy Tyner – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner Rayburn Wright – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayburn_Wright The Nash – https://thenash.org/ Thanks for listening! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE &amp; RATE THIS EPISODE! Website: https://www.valleyjazz.org/ Social Media (Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/ValleyJazzCooperative/ About The Host: Pianist/composer/educator Russell Schmidt has performed with such celebrated artists as Carl Allen, Michael Brecker, Eddie Daniels, Joe Lovano, Gerry Mulligan, Lucas Pino, Arturo Sandoval, and Clark Terry. Among his recordings as a leader are Anachromysticism (2012), which highlights Russell’s wide-ranging efforts as a jazz composer, Jazz Triptych, Volume I – The Sacred (2018), a collection of hymns and spirituals reimagined in the jazz language, and his most recent recording, the companion album Jazz Triptych, Volume II – The Secular (2019). After a distinguished career in academia, Russell joined Music Serving The Word in June 2014 as Coordinator of Education, founding MSW’s Valley Jazz Cooperative program in 2016. Previously, he served as Director of Jazz Studies at Bowling Green State University and the University of Utah. He was also a member of the Eastman School of Music jazz faculty, where he co-conducted the Eastman Studio Orchestra. A student of Rayburn Wright, Russell holds two degrees from Eastman. Find music from VJC Q&amp;T host Russell Schmidt here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuao1b7Ztc7JNpUTzyorXDQ? The Questions &amp; Tangents podcast is produced by Caleb Kilian for the Valley Jazz Cooperative, an outreach of MSW Ministries, a 501(c)(3) organization.

VJC Q&amp;T podcast host Russell Schmidt has known pianist/organist/composer Michael Kocour for more than a dozen years. A nationally-renown educator, Mike is the Director of Jazz Studies at Arizona State University. Additionally, he is a recording artist for Origin Records, releasing a solo piano album, East of the Sun, on that label’s OA2 imprint earlier this year. In early summer, Mike sat down with Russ to partake in spirited, engaging discussions on jazz, music education, and the nature of creativity. In this second of two podcasts together, they discussed the sometimes-random nature in discovering one’s passions and influences, the deeper truths revealed on vinyl records, and even the lengthy path to be travelled just to join a school’s “stage band”. Learn more about Michael Kocour here: <a href="http://www.michaelkocour.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.michaelkocour.com/</a> <a href="https://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/profile/michael-kocour" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/profile/michael-kocour</a> Listen to Michael Kocour (solo piano) perform his composition Winter’s Spell here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ceKy9Y0aU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ceKy9Y0aU</a> Listen to Michael Kocour (organ quartet) perform his composition Chunky here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SXXrTByxyI&amp;list=OLAK5uy_nftb9Vv4HNX37Li27g2dv1_aiCC6ItNHw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SXXrTByxyI&amp;list=OLAK5uy_nftb9Vv4HNX37Li27g2dv1_aiCC6ItNHw</a> Purchase Michael Kocour’s recordings for the Origin Records/OA2 label here: <a href="http://originarts.com/oa2/artists/artist.php?Artist_ID=138" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://originarts.com/oa2/artists/artist.php?Artist_ID=138</a> Learn more about some of the artists, authors, venues, and recurring sitcom characters mentioned in the podcast here: Jamey Aebersold – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamey_Aebersold" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamey_Aebersold</a> Michael Brecker – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brecker" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brecker</a> Tina Brooks – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Brooks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Brooks</a> Jerry Coker – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Coker" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Coker</a> Chick Corea – <a href="http://chickcorea.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://chickcorea.com/</a> Joe Daley – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Daley_(musician)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Daley_(musician)</a> Keith Emerson – <a href="https://www.keithemerson.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.keithemerson.com/</a> Bill Evans – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Evans" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Evans</a> Joel Frahm – <a href="https://joelfrahm.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://joelfrahm.com/</a> Benny Golson – <a href="https://www.bennygolson.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bennygolson.com/</a> Herbie Hancock – <a href="https://www.herbiehancock.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.herbiehancock.com/</a> Alfred Hitchcock – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock</a> Scott Joplin – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Joplin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Joplin</a> Wynton Kelly – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynton_Kelly" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynton_Kelly</a> Gladys Kravitz – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bewitched_characters#Gladys_Kravitz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bewitched_characters#Gladys_Kravitz</a> Brad Mehldau – <a href="https://www.bradmehldau.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bradmehldau.com/</a> Roger Miller – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Miller" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Miller</a> Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart</a> Lewis Nash – <a href="https://www.lewisnash.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lewisnash.com/</a> Herbie Nichols – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie_Nichols" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie_Nichols</a> Oscar Peterson – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Peterson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Peterson</a> Clarke Rigsby – <a href="https://tempestrecording.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tempestrecording.com/</a> Antonio Salieri – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Salieri" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Salieri</a> David Sax – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sax" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sax</a> Craig Taborn – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Taborn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Taborn</a> McCoy Tyner – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner</a> Rayburn Wright – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayburn_Wright" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayburn_Wright</a> The Nash – <a href="https://thenash.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thenash.org/</a> Thanks for listening! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE &amp; RATE THIS EPISODE! Website: <a href="https://www.valleyjazz.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.valleyjazz.org/</a> Social Media (Facebook): <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ValleyJazzCooperative/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ValleyJazzCooperative/</a> About The Host: Pianist/composer/educator Russell Schmidt has performed with such celebrated artists as Carl Allen, Michael Brecker, Eddie Daniels, Joe Lovano, Gerry Mulligan, Lucas Pino, Arturo Sandoval, and Clark Terry. Among his recordings as a leader are Anachromysticism (2012), which highlights Russell’s wide-ranging efforts as a jazz composer, Jazz Triptych, Volume I – The Sacred (2018), a collection of hymns and spirituals reimagined in the jazz language, and his most recent recording, the companion album Jazz Triptych, Volume II – The Secular (2019). After a distinguished career in academia, Russell joined Music Serving The Word in June 2014 as Coordinator of Education, founding MSW’s Valley Jazz Cooperative program in 2016. Previously, he served as Director of Jazz Studies at Bowling Green State University and the University of Utah. He was also a member of the Eastman School of Music jazz faculty, where he co-conducted the Eastman Studio Orchestra. A student of Rayburn Wright, Russell holds two degrees from Eastman. Find music from VJC Q&amp;T host Russell Schmidt here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuao1b7Ztc7JNpUTzyorXDQ?" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuao1b7Ztc7JNpUTzyorXDQ?</a> The Questions &amp; Tangents podcast is produced by Caleb Kilian for the Valley Jazz Cooperative, an outreach of MSW Ministries, a 501(c)(3) organization.

Q&T with Michael Kocour (Part II) – Dancer, Interrupted

VJC Q&amp;T podcast host Russell Schmidt (Director, Valley Jazz Cooperative) has known pianist/organist/composer Michael Kocour for more than a dozen years. A nationally-renown educator, Mike is the Director of Jazz Studies at Arizona State University. Additionally, he is a recording artist for Origin Records, releasing a solo piano album, East of the Sun, on that label’s OA2 imprint earlier this year. In early summer, Mike sat down with Russ to record a Q&amp;T podcast. Their far-ranging discussion was engaging and abundant, so much so that the conversation has been split into two separate podcasts, the second of which will be made available later. But in this, the first of two podcasts together, Mike and Russ addressed the potential dangers a sabbatical can bring, talked about an unlikely mentor for the study of Brazilian music, and even found a point at which Oscar Peterson and Johnny Costa intersect. Learn more about Michael Kocour here: http://www.michaelkocour.com/ https://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/profile/michael-kocour Listen to Michael Kocour (solo piano) perform his composition Winter’s Spell here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ceKy9Y0aU Listen to Michael Kocour (organ quartet) perform his composition Chunky here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SXXrTByxyI&amp;list=OLAK5uy_nftb9Vv4HNX37Li27g2dv1_aiCC6ItNHw Purchase Michael Kocour’s recordings for the Origin Records/OA2 label here: http://originarts.com/oa2/artists/artist.php?Artist_ID=138 Learn more about some of the artists and/or concepts mentioned in the podcast here: John Campbell – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(jazz_pianist) Tony Caramia – https://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/caramia_tony/ Johnny Costa – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Costa Joe Daley – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Daley_(musician) Bill Evans – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Evans Red Garland – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Garland Don Grolnick – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Grolnick Ian Hobson – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Hobson Toninho Horta – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toninho_Horta Antonio Carlos Jôbim – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio_Carlos_Jobim Wynton Kelly – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynton_Kelly Jim McNeely – https://www.jim-mcneely.com/ Nicole Pesce – http://www.nicolepesce.com/ Oscar Peterson – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Peterson Bud Powell – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Powell Marlene Rosenberg – https://www.marlenemusic.com/ Akio Sasajima – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akio_Sasajima Wayne Shorter – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Shorter Art Tatum – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Tatum McCoy Tyner – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner Rayburn Wright – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayburn_Wright Schillinger System (or Schillinger Method) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schillinger_System Learn more about the Valley Jazz Cooperative and VJC Q&amp;T host Russell Schmidt here: https://www.valleyjazz.org/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuao1b7Ztc7JNpUTzyorXDQ? Thanks for listening! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE &amp; RATE THIS EPISODE! Website: Link - valleyjazz.org Social Media: Facebook - @ValleyJazzCooperative New Here? Pianist/composer/educator Russell Schmidt has performed with such celebrated artists as Carl Allen, Michael Brecker, Eddie Daniels, Joe Lovano, Gerry Mulligan, Lucas Pino, Arturo Sandoval, and Clark Terry. He has also served as a keyboard soloist with more than 30 professional orchestras, including performances with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center and the San Francisco Symphony. Among his recordings as a leader are Anachromysticism (2012), which highlights Russell’s wide-ranging efforts as a jazz composer, Jazz Triptych, Volume I – The Sacred (2018), a collection of hymns and spirituals reimagined in the jazz language, and his most recent recording, the companion album Jazz Triptych, Volume II – The Secular (2019). After a distinguished career in academia, Russell joined Music Serving The Word in June 2014 as Coordinator of Education, founding MSW’s Valley Jazz Cooperative program in 2016. Previously, he served as Director of Jazz Studies at Bowling Green State University and the University of Utah. He also held faculty appointments at Northern Arizona University, the University of North Carolina–Asheville, and the Eastman School of Music, where he co-conducted the Eastman Studio Orchestra. A student of Rayburn Wright, Russell holds two degrees from Eastman. The Questions &amp; Tangents podcast is produced by Caleb Kilian for the Valley Jazz Cooperative, an outreach of MSW Ministries, a 501(c)(3) organization.

VJC Q&amp;T podcast host Russell Schmidt (Director, Valley Jazz Cooperative) has known pianist/organist/composer Michael Kocour for more than a dozen years. A nationally-renown educator, Mike is the Director of Jazz Studies at Arizona State University. Additionally, he is a recording artist for Origin Records, releasing a solo piano album, East of the Sun, on that label’s OA2 imprint earlier this year. In early summer, Mike sat down with Russ to record a Q&amp;T podcast. Their far-ranging discussion was engaging and abundant, so much so that the conversation has been split into two separate podcasts, the second of which will be made available later. But in this, the first of two podcasts together, Mike and Russ addressed the potential dangers a sabbatical can bring, talked about an unlikely mentor for the study of Brazilian music, and even found a point at which Oscar Peterson and Johnny Costa intersect. Learn more about Michael Kocour here: <a href="http://www.michaelkocour.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.michaelkocour.com/</a> <a href="https://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/profile/michael-kocour" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/profile/michael-kocour</a> Listen to Michael Kocour (solo piano) perform his composition Winter’s Spell here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ceKy9Y0aU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ceKy9Y0aU</a> Listen to Michael Kocour (organ quartet) perform his composition Chunky here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SXXrTByxyI&amp;list=OLAK5uy_nftb9Vv4HNX37Li27g2dv1_aiCC6ItNHw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SXXrTByxyI&amp;list=OLAK5uy_nftb9Vv4HNX37Li27g2dv1_aiCC6ItNHw</a> Purchase Michael Kocour’s recordings for the Origin Records/OA2 label here: <a href="http://originarts.com/oa2/artists/artist.php?Artist_ID=138" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://originarts.com/oa2/artists/artist.php?Artist_ID=138</a> Learn more about some of the artists and/or concepts mentioned in the podcast here: John Campbell – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(jazz_pianist)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(jazz_pianist)</a> Tony Caramia – <a href="https://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/caramia_tony/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/caramia_tony/</a> Johnny Costa – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Costa" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Costa</a> Joe Daley – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Daley_(musician)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Daley_(musician)</a> Bill Evans – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Evans" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Evans</a> Red Garland – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Garland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Garland</a> Don Grolnick – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Grolnick" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Grolnick</a> Ian Hobson – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Hobson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Hobson</a> Toninho Horta – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toninho_Horta" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toninho_Horta</a> Antonio Carlos Jôbim – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio_Carlos_Jobim" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio_Carlos_Jobim</a> Wynton Kelly – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynton_Kelly" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynton_Kelly</a> Jim McNeely – <a href="https://www.jim-mcneely.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jim-mcneely.com/</a> Nicole Pesce – <a href="http://www.nicolepesce.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.nicolepesce.com/</a> Oscar Peterson – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Peterson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Peterson</a> Bud Powell – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Powell" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Powell</a> Marlene Rosenberg – <a href="https://www.marlenemusic.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.marlenemusic.com/</a> Akio Sasajima – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akio_Sasajima" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akio_Sasajima</a> Wayne Shorter – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Shorter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Shorter</a> Art Tatum – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Tatum" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Tatum</a> McCoy Tyner – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner</a> Rayburn Wright – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayburn_Wright" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayburn_Wright</a> Schillinger System (or Schillinger Method) – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schillinger_System" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schillinger_System</a> Learn more about the Valley Jazz Cooperative and VJC Q&amp;T host Russell Schmidt here: <a href="https://www.valleyjazz.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.valleyjazz.org/</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuao1b7Ztc7JNpUTzyorXDQ?" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuao1b7Ztc7JNpUTzyorXDQ?</a> Thanks for listening! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE &amp; RATE THIS EPISODE! Website: Link - <a href="https://www.valleyjazz.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">valleyjazz.org</a> Social Media: Facebook - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ValleyJazzCooperative/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@ValleyJazzCooperative</a> New Here? Pianist/composer/educator Russell Schmidt has performed with such celebrated artists as Carl Allen, Michael Brecker, Eddie Daniels, Joe Lovano, Gerry Mulligan, Lucas Pino, Arturo Sandoval, and Clark Terry. He has also served as a keyboard soloist with more than 30 professional orchestras, including performances with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center and the San Francisco Symphony. Among his recordings as a leader are Anachromysticism (2012), which highlights Russell’s wide-ranging efforts as a jazz composer, Jazz Triptych, Volume I – The Sacred (2018), a collection of hymns and spirituals reimagined in the jazz language, and his most recent recording, the companion album Jazz Triptych, Volume II – The Secular (2019). After a distinguished career in academia, Russell joined Music Serving The Word in June 2014 as Coordinator of Education, founding MSW’s Valley Jazz Cooperative program in 2016. Previously, he served as Director of Jazz Studies at Bowling Green State University and the University of Utah. He also held faculty appointments at Northern Arizona University, the University of North Carolina–Asheville, and the Eastman School of Music, where he co-conducted the Eastman Studio Orchestra. A student of Rayburn Wright, Russell holds two degrees from Eastman. The Questions &amp; Tangents podcast is produced by Caleb Kilian for the Valley Jazz Cooperative, an outreach of MSW Ministries, a 501(c)(3) organization.

Q&T with Michael Kocour (Part I) – São Paulo, Sapporo, Chicago