Home The decade in jazz: Ten definitive moments Kamasi Washington plays at the Bearsville Theater, in Woodstock, N.Y., Aug. 19, 2015. (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times)

Kamasi Washington plays at the Bearsville Theater, in Woodstock, N.Y., Aug. 19, 2015. (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times)

Ornette Coleman, a jazz legend, playing with his son’s band, the Denardo Coleman Vibe, at a tribute concert dedicated to him in Brooklyn, June 12, 2014. (Christopher Gregory/The New York Times)

Jason Moran performing with his trio, the Bandwagon, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York on Sept. 17, 2019. (Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times)