Darryl Yokley

Darryl Yokley II (born February 2, 1982, Los Angeles, California) is an American tenor and alto saxophonist, composer and music conservatory teacher.

As a bandleader of Sound Reformation,[2] 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.

Yokley began his musical studies in his native state of California, starting at the age of ten on clarinet and moving to saxophone a year later upon entering middle school.

He moved to New York in 2009 and since then has performed with Eddie Palmieri, Orrin Evans, the Captain Black Big Band, Ralph Peterson Jr., Nasheet Waits, Valery Pomonarev, Jack Walrath, Frank Lacy, Duane Eubanks, Bill McHenry, and many others.