Brad Mehldau Trio leads residency at Village Vanguard in NYC … Jeremy Denk joins Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for Mozart … Fleet Foxes are in Australia … Joshua Redman Quartet concludes residency in St. Louis … Chris Thile is on the radio via San Francisco …

Punch Brothers performed on a special holiday edition of CBS This Morning's Saturday Sessions on December 23. The band was joined by Aoife O'Donovan on the Pogues' holiday classic "Fairytale of New York," and she, Chris Thile, and Chris Eldridge performed "Douglas Fir," from Thile's new album, Thanks for Listening. Punch Brothers also performed "Little Lights," from their album The Phosphorescent Blues. You can watch all three performances below.

Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell recently sat down with The Bluegrass Situation to perform the title track of their 2015 album, The Traveling Kind. The performance, for the site's Sitch Sessions, took place in a flower-filled 1954 Silver Streak trailer in East Nashville. You can watch it here.

As 2017 draws to a close, and the Nonesuch Journal takes a bit of a hiatus till the start of 2018, it's time to take a look back and remember all of the great and diverse music made by Nonesuch artists over the past year. Many Nonesuch artists and their recent Nonesuch releases have made music critics' and fans' year-end best lists. Here, in words and music and in chronological order, is a look back at the year in Nonesuch music.

Randy Newman's 2008 album Harps and Angels is now available on vinyl and as HD digital for the first time. The vinyl edition features what was then his first album of new material in nine years on a single 140-gram LP. The Guardian praised the album for its "sumptuous melodies, devastating pathos and thorny, irony-laden character songs," calling it "the work of a true master of popular song." 

Nonesuch will release Jonny Greenwood's Golden Globe–nominated score to Paul Thomas Anderson's new film, Phantom Thread, digitally on January 12, 2018, on CD February 9, and on vinyl April 21. The film, set in the glamour of 1950s post-war London, stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, and Vicky Krieps. The soundtrack—eighteen compositions by Greenwood—was recorded in London with a sixty-piece orchestra led by Robert Ziegler and is featured more prominently in the film than any of Greenwood's scores have been before. Phantom Thread is available to preorder here with an instant download of the track "House of Woodcock."

Just in time for the holidays, Robert Finley debuted his music video for “Merry Christmas, I Love You” via Uproxx, which calls it “a bluesy throwback holiday song in both message and execution.” The song, produced and co-written by Dan Auerbach, is available now on Amazon Prime Music. Watch the video, directed by Gus Black, here.

Rostam recently stopped by his parents' home and joined his mother, celebrated Iranian-American chef and cookbook author Najmieh Batmanglij, in the family kitchen to cook some of his favorite dishes and chat with Vevo's Kim Taylor Bennett about food, family, and his new album, Half-Light. You can watch the piece below.

Randy Newman was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He performed "It's a Jungle Out There" from his new album, Dark Matter, with help from the Roots, and was joined by Fallon for a piano-side chat. You can watch both plus a special web-exclusive performance of his classic tune "Short People" here.

The Staves and yMusic were on Live From Here with Chris Thile, broadcast live from The Town Hall in NYC on Saturday, performing three songs from their new album, The Way Is Read: the title track, "Trouble on My Mind," and "All My Life." The Staves also joined Thile and the show's other guests, Jeff Tweedy, Sarah Jarosz, and Punch Brothers, to perform the Pogues' Christmas classic "Fairytale of New York." Watch the performances here.

Punch Brothers were the house band on Live From Here with Chris Thile, broadcast live from The Town Hall in NYC on Saturday. The group debuted a new song, "Locked In," as the Song of the Week, and joined the week's guests on several songs, including Jeff Tweedy on Wilco's "Poor Places." You can watch both here. The band will perform on a special holiday edition of CBS This Morning's Saturday Sessions on December 23.

American Songwriter magazine has released its year-end-best lists, and among the artists featured are Rhiannon Giddens, Robert Plant, and Fleet Foxes. Rhiannon Giddens's album Freedom Highway and Robert Plant's Carry Fire have made the Top 25 Albums of 2017, and Giddens, Plant, and Fleet Foxes have songs on the list of the Top 25 Songs of 2017.