African Routes: Danilo Pérez & Godwin Louis The Jazz at Lincoln Center OrchestraBill Frisell: 75th Birthday Celebration: Jazz Ensemble in New York

About African Routes: Danilo Pérez & Godwin Louis The Jazz at Lincoln Center OrchestraBill Frisell: 75th Birthday Celebration

African Routes brings pianist-composer Danilo Pérez and saxophonist Godwin Louis into collaboration with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra under the direction of Wynton Marsalis. Presented at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, the program traces jazz through African diasporic histories, using Pérez’s rhythm-driven writing and Louis’s exploratory improvising as a guide. The ensemble format places individual voices inside a large-orchestra tradition, balancing arranged architecture with open space. The performances favor structural clarity over spectacle.