Miguel Muziq, guitarist Michael Panteli, has a very interesting new album by the initial sounds of what we have heard so far called An Angel’s Healing coming up. With superb jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold and his brother drummer Emanuel Harrold along with Emanuel's fellow Gregory Porter Band members saxophonist Tivon Pennicott and bassist Jahmal Nichols among the personnel, also on Angel is the Afro-Cuban horn player Yelfris Valdes, great UK scene trumpeter Jay Phelps and percussionist Jansen Santana. The perky, clubby, latin and strings-flavoured ‘Frith Street’ from the album, a feelgood paean to Ronnie Scott's and Soho, now at its final mastering stage, features the Harrold brothers. Panteli's lead guitar line is certainly pristine and agile first listens suggest and the strings and riffing horns are ingeniously blended in the warm-sounding mix. Look for 'Frith Street' when it drops on 9 April. An Angel's Healing is to be released on 4 June. Miguel Muziq, top
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