Today, Peter Clancy retires as the only marketing chief Nonesuch has known in the modern era. He leaves a remarkable legacy and he takes the love of his colleagues and friends with him. He will always be part of this label. Nonesuch President David Bither offers his gratitude.

Chris Thile begins Live From Here residency at NYC's Town Hall with guests Noam Pikelny, Rachael Price … John Adams conducts Cleveland Orchestra, Leila Josefowicz in Scheherazade.2 … Laurie Anderson leads SFJAZZ residency … Tigran Hamasyan performs solo in France … Gabriel Kahane brings Book of Travelers to North Carolina …

Laurie Anderson will take part in five events in San Francisco as SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director this week, November 28–December 2. The residency includes a listening party and conversation, programs called Songs for Women and Songs for Men, a drone-based sonic installation with Lou Reed's guitars, and scenes from a radio play.

Jazzwise magazine has published its list of the Top 20 Jazz Albums of 2018, including three Nonesuch releases: Brad Mehldau Trio's Seymour Reads The Constitution!; Joshua Redman's collaboration with Ron Miles, Scott Colley, and Brian Blade, Still Dreaming; and Brad Mehldau's solo album After Bach.

k.d. lang performs a concert celebrating her critically acclaimed 1992 album Ingénue from the Majestic Theater in San Antonio, TX, in k.d. lang – Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special, premiering on Friday, December 14, on PBS. The special features an uninterrupted performance of the complete Ingénue album, Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," a previously unreleased song, and an interview with lang. Watch the trailer and a performance of "Season of Hollow Soul" here.

In conjunction with The Criterion Collection’s special-edition DVD and Blu-ray release of David Byrne’s 1986 film True Stories, Nonesuch and Todomundo Records release a comprehensive soundtrack, collected for the first time in one package and in film sequence: True Stories, A Film by David Byrne: The Complete Soundtrack is now available on vinyl LP, CD, and digital formats. "I always imagined that the music written for True Stories should be heard as it is in the film," says Byrne. "It makes the most sense this way.”

Mambo Sinuendo, Ry Cooder’s 2003 Grammy Award–winning collaboration with Cuban guitar legend Manuel Galbán, has returned on vinyl for the first time in some fifteen years. "Mambo Sinuendo creates a time-warped neverland where unhurried melodies hover above subtly swaying Cuban rhythms," says the New York Times, "as the two guitar masters trade slides and twangs with a droll sense of romance."

Happy Black Friday! Lake Street Dive has released Freak Yourself Out, a new, limited-edition, black 10" vinyl EP for Record Store Day: Black Friday. The EP features five songs recorded during the sessions for the band's album Free Yourself Up that had not been finished. The band had so much fun playing the songs on tour this year, they went back into the studio and finished them for this special release. To pick up a copy, head to your favorite independent record store now.

Bill Frisell's classic album Nashville, first released on Nonesuch Records in 1997, is now available worldwide on vinyl for the first time. The vinyl edition, made in partnership with Run Out Groove, was mastered for vinyl by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound in a two-LP set pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Industry in the Netherlands. Limited to 3,000 copies worldwide, the set comes in a gatefold tip-on jacket made at Stoughton Printing with outtake photos from the sessions.

As the US celebrates Thanksgiving over the next few days, there’s great live music being made around the world: David Byrne concludes his 2018 American Utopia world tour in Australia, Sam Amidon performs in Latvia, Timo Andres is in Brooklyn, Tigran Hamasyan is in Spain, and Brad Mehldau brings his new Piano Concerto to Poland.

There's just over a month to go before 2018 comes to a close, and the UK music magazines have begun to weigh in on the year's best music. Uncut and Mojo have published their lists of the Best of 2018, and included among them are David Byrne's American Utopia, Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet's Landfall, Olivia Chaney's Shelter, and Jonny Greenwood's Phantom Thread soundtrack.

Olivia Chaney will perform music from her new album, Shelter, and more on tour in England in March 2019. The tour begins in Whitstable on March 3, followed by shows in London, Southampton, Cambridge, Bristol, and Manchester. The Southampton show falls on International Women’s Day and will feature a specially curated program to include songs by Chaney’s favorite female songwriters.