African Routes: Danilo Pérez & Godwin Louis The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Jazz Ensemble in New York

About African Routes: Danilo Pérez & Godwin Louis The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

African Routes brings together pianist-composer Danilo Pérez and saxophonist Godwin Louis with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra under the direction of Wynton Marsalis. Presented at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, the project treats jazz as part of a wider African diasporic continuum, drawing on Pérez’s rhythm-centered compositional language and Louis’s improvisational voice. The ensemble setting emphasizes collective precision and orchestral color. Their performances favor structure and lineage over display, letting the music’s historical threads stay audible.