Detroit Jazz Drummer Gayelynn McKinney Releases a New Album Inspired by Her Father, titled “McKinfolk, A New Beginning”

Gayelynn McKinney describes her happy musical home as a kid and the dream in which her late father, Detroit Jazz legend Harold McKinney, visited her which was the catalyst for an album she had not planned to make

Gayelynn McKinney talks (and laughs) with Ann Delisi about everything from the daily conversations with her father at the breakfast table, to being a girl playing the drums and the long journey to record her father’s compositions. 

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  • Ann Delisi
    Ann Delisi hosts Essential Music, the Essential Conversations podcast series and the Essential Cooking broadcast and podcast. Born and raised in the Motor City, Ann is a broadcaster, interviewer, producer, music host, storyteller and proud Detroiter.