Portuguese singer Mariza has returned to the US to give a number of intimate concerts, going back to her roots to perform special acoustic sets of stripped-down traditional Fado as it would be heard in a small club in Lisbon. The tour includes a four-night, eight-show residency at SFJAZZ Center's Joe Henderson Lab, and concerts in Brooklyn, DC, New Jersey, Chicago, Boston, and New York. Songlines has named her Artist of the Year and called her album Mundo "an unalloyed triumph."

Pat Metheny has once again been named Guitarist of the Year in the DownBeat Readers Poll. "The results of this year's Readers Poll are an indication of the incredible variety and depth of talent on the jazz scene today," said DownBeat Editor Bobby Reed. Metheny released two albums on Nonesuch last year: The Unity Sessions ("Brilliant," Times of London) and Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny ("A complete success," All About Jazz).

Randy Newman was on the public radio show A Prairie Home Companion, hosted by fellow Nonesuch artist Chris Thile, broadcast live from the show’s home base, the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, MN, on Saturday. Newman performed three songs from his new album, Dark Matter—"Putin," "Sonny Boy," and "She Chose Me"—and was joined by Thile and the house band to perform two of his classic tunes, "It's Money That I Love" and "You've Got a Friend in Me." You can watch several here.

In a new video, Rostam deconstructs his song "Gwan," a track on his debut album, Half-Light, that references the traditional tunes "Suo Gân" and "Simple Gifts." "I think there's something worthy about striving to make the most complex music that you can but still use melodies," he says; "and maybe using melodies that people know makes it more interesting, because then you can kind of track the evolution of stuff." Watch how he made the song in the video here. Rostam performs at The Growlers Six festival in LA this Saturday and starts a European tour at the Pitchfork Avant-Garde Festival in Paris November 1.

Randy Newman is on A Prairie Home Companion, hosted by Chris Thile …. Sam Amidon brings The Following Mountain to Europe … Laurie Anderson returns to Chile … Jeremy Denk is in Belgium … Richard Goode gives recital in Richmond ... Tigran Hamasyan performs in Germany … The Magnetic Fields bring 50 Song Memoir to Melbourne Fest … Pat Metheny continues quartet tour in Germany … Conor Oberst takes Salutations to Florida … Joshua Redman is in Asia …

French singer and composer Camille, whose new album, OUÏ, was released in the United States on Nonesuch last week, was a guest on the public radio show The World. She spoke with host Marco Werman about the interplay between the words and music in her songs, the vibrations that emanate from them, the impact of the fourteenth-century monastery where she recorded the album, Yoko Ono, the current state of the world, and more. You can listen to interview here.

Sam Amidon begins a European tour of music from his new album, The Following Mountain, at Scalateatern Källare in Stockholm, followed by shows in Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, and Ireland.

Chris Thile was a guest on WNYC's Leonard Lopate show today. He spoke with Lopate about his forthcoming album, Thanks for Listening, due December 8, shared some tracks from the album, and performed the album track "Falsetto" live. Thanks for Listening is a collection of new studio recordings of songs originally written as Songs of the Week on the public radio show A Prairie Home Companion, of which Thile is host. You can hear the conversation and performance on the Leonard Lopate show here.

Rostam has announced his first North American tour, beginning in Atlanta on January 29, 2018. The tour, featuring music from Rostam's recently released debut album, Half-Light, continues through February, with stops in Nashville, DC, Chicago, Seattle, and more, culminating at El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on February 24. Watch Rostam's performance of the album's title track at KEXP here.

Robert Plant spoke with Noisey Editor-in-Chief Eric Sundermann for a Facebook Live interview about his new album, Carry Fire, and more. See what he had to say in the interview here.

Rostam was a guest on CBC's Q. He spoke with host Tom Power about the making of his debut album, Half-Light, and performed two songs from the album: a unique piano-and-vocal version of "Don't Let It Get to You" and the title track. "It's a beautiful song," says Power after the latter. "Isn't it gorgeous?" Hear for yourself here.

Robert Plant's new album, Carry Fire, is out now. As with his 2014 album, lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar, it features his band The Sensational Space Shifters. They are also joined here by special guests, including Chrissie Hynde. NPR calls the album "transfixing ... rivetingly intimate." The New York Times calls it "a swirling mix of deep blues, mountain music, North African rhythms and Zeppelin-heavy weight." The AP says: "There are few undisputed rock stars this accomplished still taking musical risks. Plant’s songwriting remains a class above ... 'Out here the fire's still burning / So long into my night,' he sings. Long may it burn."