Sound Reformation New York Performances

“Sound Reformation” arrives at Smalls Jazz Club as a straight-ahead jazz set led by saxophonist Darryl Yokley, appearing in both quartet form and as a featured performer. The setting matters: Smalls is a Greenwich Village room where working bands test ideas in close quarters, and the audience hears the grain of the music without distance. No specific NYC premiere history is documented for this program, but the title reads like a thesis about renewal through sound. The most telling detail is the format itself, a small-group conversation that treats improvisation as a civic practice.