Steve Zimmerman has one of the best jobs in town: coordinator of music and visual arts for the Westport Public Schools.

He came here after 25 years as band director at schools in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. He’s been named Connecticut Music Educator of the Year, and of 50 Yale Distinguished Music Educators.

Steve has sung at Carnegie Hall, and performed as a trombonist all over the East. The other day, he added “06880: The Podcast” to his resumé.

Click below, to hear — just a couple of weeks before Staples High School’s 84th annual Candlelight Concert — our wide-ranging conversation.