Jacob Dorfman Trio
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Wednesday 21st January 2026
Doors: 6pm / Gig: 8-11pm
Happy Hour: 6-7.30pm
Free Entry
BOOK A ‘DATE DEAL’ TABLE (£30)
For bookings of 9+ guests, or if you’d prefer a phone reservation, call 0161 273 5495 (10am-5pm Mon-Fri) / 0161 831 7002 (5-11pm Mon-Sat). Booking a table is recommended, but you can just turn up if you’re happy standing.
Jacob Dorfman - Piano
Jacob studied composition and conducting at the Guildhall School where he won the Mary Ryan Award for Composition. His compositions are known for combining a luscious harmonic palette and lyrical melodies with experimental timbres and improvisation, with performances at Wigmore Hall, Milton Court Concert Hall, and The Courtauld Gallery. An accomplished pianist and double bassist, his playing is largely inspired by Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, and Nina Simone, while combining elements of impressionism and minimalism into meditative improvisations and unique interpretations of the Great American Songbook. This new trio project brings together some of the most gifted performers in the Northwest, featuring new improvisational arrangements of Jacob’s music for the concert hall and theatre, along with new compositions and standards.
Grant Russell - Double Bass
Son of notorious and long-established dixieland Bassist Ron Russell, Grant has himself become one of the most sought after bassists and composers in the country. Exposed extensively to music from a young age, he studied double bass and composition at the Royal Northern College of Music, achieving a Bachelor of music and a licentiate in double bass performance. Since leaving college, he has worked extensively as a session musician both domestically and in Europe. He has worked and collaborated with numerous projects and ensembles, including NYJO, THE Nick Ross Orchestra, The Halle, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic among many others, including being a founder member of the Mercury prize nominated band Gogo Penguin. He has also performed with illustrious artists such as Roy Hargrove, Chris Potter, Norma Winstone and Digby Fairweather. In 2014, he was also awarded the prize of ‘best jazz interpreter’ at the Johnny Radicanu Festival in Romania.
Johnny Hunter is a northern UK-based drummer and composer who comes from a background of both the Avant-Garde and the more mainstream Jazz. His own “chordless” quartet, set up to explore the freedom and limitations of having no chordal instrument, has been recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio 3, and has performed across the country in notable venues such as London’s Ronnie Scott’s, the Manchester Jazz Festival, Birmingham Jazzlines at Symphony Hall, Liverpool International Jazz Festival, among many others. He also leads the piano trio Fragments, originally a workshop band formed to research and develop new approaches to improvising and composing for improvisers.
In 2018, he was selected as one of the composers on Sound and Music’s New Voices programme. Outside of his own music, Johnny performs across the UK in many other groups, including with Misha Gray’s Prehistoric Jazz Quintet, a Liverpool-based group playing heavy modal Jazz inspired by John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders and the like; Cath Roberts’s Sloth Racket; The Spirit Farm, and many more.
WEDNESDAYS AT M&P’S: IT’S A DATE
Book a stage-side table for two on a Wednesday evening at Matt & Phred’s, and get a bottle of house red/white wine or any two cocktails, any pizza, and a garlic bread side for just £30.
With the finest Live Music from 8-11pm, your night will be covered! Perfect for romantic snuggles, mates having a catch up, or treating a member of your family.
To book, click the ‘Book a ‘Date Deal’ Table’ button at the top of this page. The £30 is charged on the night, once you’ve ordered your drinks and food.