Wednesday 6th December 2023
Doors: 6pm
Happy Hour: 6-8pm
Gig: 9pm-12am
Free Entry
Table bookings:
- Latest arrival time: 8:45pm
To book a table, call:
- 0161 273 5495, 10am-5pm Monday-Friday
- 0161 831 7002, after 5pm Monday-Saturday
- Or leave a message outside of these times and we’ll get back to you.
Do we have a treat for you this evening! The first of Nishla Smith’s band’s special residency at M&P’s, showcasing different icons in Jazz throughout the year.
First up, the band is celebrating Nat King Cole. You can expect the band’s arrangements of classic Nat King Cole tunes, with their gorgeous romance and sentimentality, as well as some of the beautiful Christmas numbers which the legend performed.
Tonight, Nishla on vocals is joined by three fantastic musicians - Tom Harris on piano, Tim Williams on Bass, and Aaron Wood on trumpet.
You’re going to want to get cosy for this one, get in there quick and reserve a table near the front (it’s FREE!).
Nishla is an artist driven by a desire to tell stories. Her unique musical sensibility, along with this preoccupation with narrative is recurrent throughout a diverse array of musical projects. She's recently made work with Opera North, Yandass Ndlovu, Lancaster Jazz Festival and Manchester Collective.
In 2022, Nishla received a Peter Whittingham Jazz Award for her upcoming album, and a UK Theatre Award for her performance as the titular bird in Atri Banerjee's lauded production of ‘Kes’. She is one-third of cross-disciplinary arts collective Ulita, with whom she just finished a season at Edinburgh Fringe. Nishla is an alumnus of Serious Music’s Take Five, and her 2021 debut album ‘Friends With Monsters’ received critical acclaim and national radio play.
Press Quotes
"Nishla creates vivid, enigmatic stories through sound, her voice stretching from melancholic sweetness through to dark intimacy." - Whirlwind Recordings
"She creates a darkly gorgeous interior sonic world.” - Downbeat, USA
"Her voice is exquisite, a symbol of unreachable beauty." - The Guardian
Nishla Smith (vocals)