At Jazz at Lincoln Center, African Routes brings pianist-composer Danilo Pérez and saxophonist Godwin Louis into dialogue with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in a program that traces jazz’s African lineages and their modern migrations. The evening places Panamanian and Haitian diasporic perspectives inside an institution built around the city’s canonical sound. New York has long served as the meeting ground where these routes converge, making the setting part of the story. One clear takeaway is how the format treats heritage as living material, not ornament.