Darryl Yokley: Jazz Musician in New York

About Darryl Yokley

Darryl Yokley II is an American tenor and alto saxophonist, composer and music conservatory teacher. Yokley started to learn jazz after extensive studies in classical saxophone. As a bandleader of Sound Reformation, Yokley has gained recognition as an inventive composer and soloist after releasing its debut album The Void (2012) and Pictures at an African Exhibition (2018). He has performed with Motown legends the Four Tops, The Temptations, and The O'Jays, Eddie Palmieri, Orrin Evans, The Captain Black Big Band, Duane Eubanks, Ralph Peterson Jr., Nasheet Waits, Valery Pomonarev, and many more.