Mike Essoudry: Drummer
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. This 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 drumming. Mike demonstrated lots of intricate grooves and finished the episode with a cool little solo. He also shared stories from his childhood and talked about how in his youth he built his drums and an intricate treehouse in a park. Podcast Spotify Apple (and wherever else you listen to podcasts!)
Mike is 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 In my bonus catch-up episode with Megan (linked together with her first episode Megan Jerome), 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.
Mike Essoudry website photo: JC Batista
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