A fresh batch of goodness we cooked up for the season!  Hope you’re having a great one this year, wherever you are :) Elian & Inés

A loungey set for an early Saturday night, or a Sunday afternoon that finds that good groove.

It happens once a year:  my birthday.  However, this one quickly turned into an M Café reunion, with DJs Kevin Ruiz, Mark Cali-Jentes and OB One joining me in the booth, while Wendell Garcia performed by proxy—since his wife was giving birth in the hospital! Spotted in the crowd were Kimmie & Inaki Lamar’s, Jade Santos, Sarada & Mike, Audrey Carpio, Kevin & Irene, Chip Childers, Lala Alvarez, Rafael Dominguez, Mike Sinclair, Carsten & Gianna Stormer, John Riad & Shiela Viesca, Mark Jentes & Mona, Lord & Aksana Ancheta, Ron Davis, Edgar Krohn, Ferdi Salvador, Kate Torralba, Antonio Ressano, Francisco & Kimmy Delgado, Morgan & Jasmine Gilvrey, Karen & Freddie Elizalde, Bryan Bambike, Santi Picornell, Martin Wisniewski, Natalie, Sunshine & Ricardo, Fadzly Yusof, Abhi Mohan, Butch Menchaca, Jorge Josef, Shayne Murray, Martin & Jay Block, David Miller, Ana Gonzalez.  The event was sponsored by Chivas Regal, photos by Ed Simon, and it was hosted by Mackey Maguigad and my lovely wife Inés.   And here’s a bit of the playlist from that night!

It's another installment of Jazz Underground, just in time for the holidays!  Here, you'll find an extended set of downtempo, modern jazz to fill your soul with positive vibes.  Merry Christmas and a music-filled New Year to one and all!  Elian and Ines

Here's "part two" of the 5-hour curated set I performed at my new Jazz Underground monthly residency at UNWND on July 29, 2022  The next installment is scheduled for September 23, starting at 8pm at UNWND in Poblacion.  Mark it down and we'll see you there www.musicandwineradio.com

Well, it just so happens that we have a new residence: UNWND in Poblacion.  The venue is a cozy lounge that is part of the boutique hotel by the same name.   And the music we deliver is modern jazz.  The two seem to go exquisitely well together.  Shout out to Macky Maguigad for organizing the evening! Here is Set 1 from the debut evening last Friday, and see you there once again on Friday August 26th for more :)

Hot new set packed with modern jazz beats by Robert Glasper, Brad Mehldau, Taylor McFerrin, Nate Smith, Moonchild, Kem, Cory Henry, and surprise vocals by Norah Jones.

Our most heartfelt greetings and best wishes to all of you our dear listeners, wherever you are in the world.  May the joy of the season remain with you throughout the coming year.  And remember:  music is the color of life! Elian & Inés Tranquility. Elian - Christmas 2021 01 Strength. Moonchild02 Tranquility. Bobby Hutcherson03 Gonna Be Alright. Robert Glasper, Ledisi04 Say The Brother’s Name. John Scofield, Pat Metheny05 Saravah. Les Nubiens06 Lifeline. Shai Maestro07 Why Don’t You. Cleo Sol08 August. Lyle Mays09 Phi. The Curtis Brothers10 The Jungle Line. Leonard Cohen11 A Case Of You. Herbie Hancock12 Fall. Kurt Rosenwinkel13 Lift Every Voice and Sing. Orice Jenkins14 Here’s That Rainy Day. Wolfgang Lackerschmid, Chet Baker15 Pentamerous. Scott Routenberg, Sofia Kraevska16 A Beautiful (F*cking) Lie. Jeremy Pelt17 From This Place. Pat Metheny

A fresh new set is out. Get it while it's hot!!  Elian & Inés

Once in a while, we like to slightly deviate from our "bread and butter".  Here's something perfect for your next cook out ;)

We're getting a ton of excellent feedback on our Strictly Jazz series of music sets.  Here's a fresh new one for you :)

A new eclectic set to help you get your groove on

Here's a new Strictly Jazz episode for your listening pleasure 01 Griot. Jeremy Pelt 02 Carry Christ Wherever You Are. Jeremy Pelt 03 Stardust. Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker 04 Montara. Harvey Mason 05 Zambian Offertory. Jesse Ryan, Joanna Majoko 06 Place in My Heart. Taylor McFerrin 07 Touched by an Angel. Joel Ross 08 Midnite-daylight. Nate Smith 09 Welcome to the Hills. Yussef Dayes, Charlie Stacey 10 Lonely Girl. Earl Klugh Trio 11 Sisters of Arequipa. Nils Landgren Funk Unit 12 Bye Bye Blackbird. Ron Carter 13 A Seat at the Table. Jeremy Pelt 14 The Thing We Did Last Summer. Freddie Hubbard

Feeling me some Quincy Jones this month. Here's a tribute set :) 01 Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me. Quincy Jones 02 Manteca. Quincy Jones 03 I Can't Help It. Michael Jackson 04 Soul Bossa Nova. Quincy Jones 05 One Hundred Ways 06 Ai No Corrida. Quincy Jones 07 Baby, Come To Me. Patti Austin, James Ingram 08 Moanin'. Quincy Jones 09 Sax In The Garden. Quincy Jones 10 What's Going On. Quincy Jones 11 I'm Yours. El DeBarge 12 The Dude. Quincy Jones 13 Turn On The Lamplight. Quincy Jones 14 Stuff Like That. Quincy Jones 15 You Put A Move On My Heart. Tamia 16 Velas. Quincy Jones 17 Superwoman. Patti Austin 18 Setembro. Quincy Jones 19 Tomorrow. Tevin Campbell 20 Sanford & Son Theme. Quincy Jones 21 Eyes Of Love. Quincy Jones

2021 has had a rough start, but overall, I think everyone is looking optimistically to the future. Now that the vaccine has been approved, it's just a matter of time before enough people are vaccinated, and the world finally moves on. Whether it takes a year or two is a matter of semantics. One thing is for sure: the end of the madness is within striking distance. Our hearts go out to those how lost loved ones and to those who lost businesses or jobs due to the pandemic. However, there has got to be some silver linings we can identify and even celebrate. For example, every one of us has learned some new coping mechanisms that we can now add to our toolbox of resilience. We have learned to get work done easier, or to no longer need to go to the office anymore. For millions, the hours wasted every day have just become a thing of the past. It seemed impossible for so many years to avoid sitting in traffic daily for an extended period of time. It seemed inevitable, something we'd need to learn to deal with and accept for the rest of our lives. Yet, in some of the most populous cities in the world, the bi-product of this exercise of lockdowns has turned out to be the eradication of traffic problems that are so bad, that they used to plague their populations and render their lives discouragingly frustrating. And without much fanfare, a major leap for mankind has taken place. The phenomenon may not be discussed very much to speak of in the media, yet it is one that is not lost on the residents of major cities from Sao Paolo, and L.A. to Johannesburg, Jakarta and Manila: traffic problems have been virtually solved. And this all happened with little to no capital spent on infrastructure. The big lesson here is that many of our society's most seemingly insurmountable problems can be solvable if we were to simply reorganise our priorities and think outside the box. And even though we are still at the dawn of the digital age, where every action is becoming recorded and remembered, there are nevertheless major breakthroughs for the specie happening at an unprecedented pace. The fact that pretty much everyone can talk to each other, that everyone can find pretty much any business they are searching for, the fact that every person can find any destination effortlessly, the fact that any product can be sold to anyone, without the need for the seller to rent a store, the fact that you never have to leave your house anymore to eat any food out there on the menu of just about any restaurant, the fact that you can now meet with anybody without driving to see them... many of these new realities have become fully adopted in the last year. We are still waiting to find out how the music industry is going to adjust to the situation. But we are sure that what's on the other side will be better in some ways than what we had before the pandemic. Let's take the radio show broadcasted on the internet by NPR called Tiny Desk Concerts. In the past, the artist had to fly to DC and record their appearance inside NPR's offices, behind the tiny desk. What they've learned to do during the pandemic is that in it no longer necessary for the band and their crew to fly to DC. The performance can be filmed anywhere and submitted to NPR digitally, thus exponentially expanding the possibilities of artists that could appear on the award-winning music show. Soon we will find a digital substitute for the live performance, one that I am sure will be somehow "better", both for the audience and for the artist, because it will give the artist unprecedented access to their fans. True, the jazz artist may no longer have a room of 30 fans to play to, but they may instead have a virtual room of 3000 listeners. In the meantime, we invite you to enjoy this 2 1/2-hour set of uninterrupted music from the Music & Wine vault. For now, we'll just keep bringing you music to get your juices flowing ;) Peace & love, Elian & Inés

Loving the vibe on this new set. Enjoy! 01 Double Check: 9/11 Survivor. Christian Tamburr 02 Popkoral. Helge Lien Trio 03 Living All Alone. Phyllis Hyman 04 Day Dream. Christian Tamburr 05 Six Blade Knife. Dire Straits 06 Glitter Eye. Matthis, Giveton Gellin 07 Lullaby of Birdland. Chaka Khan, George Shearing 08 Amorzhina. Ted Moore Trio 09 Olhos de Gato. Gary Burton, Pat Metheny 10 Body and Soul. Biréli Lagrene 11 From the Heart. Hilario Duran 12 Here But I’m Gone. Curtis Mayfield 13 Não Saia da Praça. Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad

There's so much good music in the world! 01 Black Orpheus (Mahna De Carnaval). Aaron Goldberg 02 Dolphin Dance. Onaje Allan Gumbs 03 Torus. The Curtis Brothers 04 Haikus. Jonathan Barber, Vision Ahead 05 Giulia. Francesco Cataldo, Pietro Leveratto 06 African Sounds. Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad 07 Summer Song. Yellowjackets 08 Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds. Makaya McCraven 09 Children. Mathias Eick 10 I Have A Dream. New Stories 11 Harvest Moon. Tanya Grubbs Quintet 12 The Cost Of Living. Chris Minh Doky 13 Lansana’s Priestess. Donald Byrd 14 Ana Maria. Kurt Rosenwinkel 15 You Send Me. Kurt Elling 16 Atchfalaya Fiction. Charles Pillow Ensemble 17 Not There Yet. Chicago Yestet 18 Cliché. Jeff Parker

This is SIDE B of a set recorded back in April at the height of the lockdown, that's now being released to the public. We thought the world would need all the soul it can get. Sending 100% positive energy to everyone! 01 Between The Sheets. The Isley Brothers 02 Same Ole Love (365 Days a Week). Anita Baker 03 You Are My Lady. Freddie Jackson 04 Love Power. Dionne Warwick, Jeffrey Osborne 05 The Ghetto. Donnie Hathaway 06 Love, love, love. Donnie Hathaway 07 I’ll Take You There. The Staple Singers 08 Ike’s Rap / Help Me Love. Isaac Hayes 09 Hold On I’m Comin’. Sam & Dave 10 Forget Me Nots. Patrice Rushen 11 Baby Come To Me. Patti Austin, James Ingram 12 Shame. Evelyn “Champagne” King 13 Risin’ to the Top. Keni Burke 14 Moody’s Mood for Love. Quincy Jones, James Moody 15 Magnetic Ocean. Incognito 16 I’m Gonna Miss You in the Morning. Luther Vandross, Patti Austin 17 Tell Me a Bedtime Story. Quincy Jones 18 Rock Your Baby. George McCrae 19 Reasons. Earth, Wind & Fire 20 Time Will Reveal. DeBarge

Another instalment of our now critically acclaimed Strictly Jazz series. This one's probably best consumed while standing ;) 01 Love and Happiness. Monty Alexander 02 Shapeshifter. Paul Shaw Quintet 03 Not So Unique. Edward Simon, Avishai Cohen 04 Tribal Dance. Lionel Loueke 05 Askaa! Teddy Rok Seven 06 Kirinji 07 Slink. Lyle Mays 08 A Day in Vienna. Roy Hargrove 09 No Words. Jimmy Greene 10 Scarborough Fair. Herbie Hancock 11 Everything Explained. Pat Metheny 12 Stolen Moments. Passport Quartet, Jean Bernard Oury 13 I botten pâ glaset. Bo Kaspers Orkester 14 Rio Oscuro. John Stein, Daniel Grajew

Yes, it's my birthday :) I don't normally like to make a big deal out of it, but this year is different. Despite everything, I feel like this year I have exponentially grown musically. My sound continues to evolve, my taste keeps getting infinitely more complex, and everyday I feel a sense of gratitude for all of this, perhaps more than at any other time in my life. Some of you know where I'm coming from when I say: music is now more than ever a refuge, a sanctuary where you can feel alive, a place where you can be sheltered from the negativity of the world. Music is a gift, it's a treat, it's something we can all relish. And so on my birthday, it gives me great pleasure to share this source of life with you. Sit back, dim the lights, put the phone on airplane mode, and bask in its glow. Elian 01 Wave. Kait Dunton 02 Caravan. Paul Jost 03 Same River. Pat Metheny 04 Due North. Randy Halberstadt 05 Kamala’s Dance. Roy Hargrove 06 Hard Eights. Lage Lund 07 Nimis. Tingvall Trio 08 Steppin’ Out. Kurt Elling 09 You’ve Got It Bad Girl. Herbie Hancock 10 Broken Leg Days. Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band 11 Song Without Words, No. 2: Ballad. Fred Hersch, WDR Big Band 12 Always And Forever. Pat Metheny Group