This episode features the fantastic drummer Mike Essoudry, who is a busy performer and composer in Ottawa, Canada,  playing with many projects in the funk, jazz, and improvised music scene. He’s in the  funk group Gephilte with a previous guest of this series,  Josh “Socalled” Dolgin, and in the Together Ensemble with his partner Megan Jerome. Today also marks the release of my bonus catch-up episode with Megan, in which she shares how she and Mike fell in love as well as her new album and great advice about an important aspect of the music business as an independant artist. Her episodes are linked here: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/megan-jerome-e10-s2This episode was unique in that Mike was sitting at his drumset  during the entire episode and we talked in detail about the history of the drumset and evolution of different styles of drumm ...