As part of its summer series on the sounds of music al fresco, Weekend Edition Saturday speaks with John Thornton, a trumpet player who holds court outside the National Archives.

Sung is a dazzling and passionate player with a flawless technique and an exquisite touch. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance graduate has played with such luminaries as Clark Terry and Wynton Marsalis. She shows off her compositional skills when she plays her own tune (“Hope Springs Eternally”), and she joins host Marian McPartland on “Someday My Prince Will Come.”

Preview some of the artists playing the Montreal International Jazz Festival, a musical grand prix.

Players pair off and rejoin, chase each other and catch up at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

A visual tour of the Village Vanguard, New York City’s world-famous jazz club, capacity 123.

The Swedish jazz trio sculpts epic soundscapes on its first posthumous album, released four years after pianist Esbjörn Svensson’s death.

Bassist Matt Ulery, whose new album displays an affinity for strings, picks some of his favorite mergers of classical and folk music with the blues. Hear songs from Brad Mehldau, Chico Hamilton, Dave Douglas, Anne Mette Iversen and Wayne Shorter.

Once described by Time as “America’s best singer,” Wilson explores a lifelong relationship with the guitar on her new album, Another Country.

The jazz drummer tells NPR’s Guy Raz that great percussionists like Buddy Rich and Max Roach make their cymbals “sing.”

The JJA Jazz Awards, Ravi Coltrane, performers’ rights and sad news from WGBH.