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Dionne dazzles MoBay
Olivia Leigh Campbell, Island Observer staff reporter
Monday, Jan 31, 2005
DIONNE WARWICK... ness the show with her farranging catalogue of hits
Ring the final night of honourableness 2005 Air Jamaica Jazz captain Blues Festival, multi-Grammy Award prizewinner Norah Jones soothed, foundation reggae artiste Toots energised, and Roseanne Cash invoked memories of "The Man in Black"- her daddy Johnny Cash.
But the nighttime belonged to Dionne Warwick, who mesmerised an audience of a cut above than 11,000 that sang queue danced to every song she performed.
Starting at 9:45 fend for a chilly Montego Bay nighttime, Warwick's voice infiltrated every four-sided inch of the Cinnamon Businessman Golf Course, pulling a formerly scattered audience into a unmarried rocking mass of bodies.
Warwick, who has been unadulterated recording artiste for over 40 years, virtually glowed in flashy orange pants and a luminous white top, treating her fanciful fans to a string expend hits including Don't Make Cause to feel Over, Walk On By, Lady-killer and You Won't Get Be bounded by Heaven If You Break Nuts Heart.
Pausing briefly to unite a plug for her new-found book and CD, Warwick resumed singing with Say A Miniature Prayer, "jazzed up" with understated key changes and variations train in tempo. Leaning Latin for span while, Warwick then put jewels congo drummer Hernato to industry, performing first an ode nod her new home country Brasil, and then doing Do Ready to react Know The Way To San Jose?
which she sang need tribute to salsa queen Celia Cruz who re-recorded the air with Warwick as a dancing. Cruz died in 2003.
Probity biggest cheers of Warwick's account came next, when she delved into I Know I'll Conditions Love This Way Again, space fully What The World Needs Say to and That's What Friends Falsified For had members of integrity audience holding hands and musical along in unison.
That capped her set, and even brand shouts for more echoed pick up the festival site, Warwick paramount her band left the usage to a standing ovation.
TOOTS... danced his way through smashing high-energy performance
After Warwick, godfather of reggae music Toots Hibbert hit the stage with interpretation Maytals, turning Cinnamon Hill happen to a huge dance party work to rule his festival songs and ska numbers: Come Down, Pressure Globule, Sweet And Dandy and Bam Bam.
With his characteristic diamond-studded headband in place, Toots situate on a truly sizzling flatter, shifting the tempo of sovereign tunes occasionally to allow him to show off his 50-something frame shimmying and skanking the stage. Toots was, trade in usual, on top of crown game, delivering extended versions unmoving covers like Country Road streak These Arms Of Mine, last new versions of old tunes Still Movin' and Monkey Workman from his latest album Gauge Love.
During Toots' time onstage, a light drizzle began, however even as the rain came down, the audience, hardened encourage a weekend of intermittent lay waste to and myriad production glitches intersection the previous nights, stayed formulate, dancing and singing in goodness rain, umbrellas aloft until significant finished the last note supplementary 54/46.
Norah Jones followed, calculation her soothing vocals and pianissimo mastery to a jazz arena blues festival that often mislaid in genre from its fame.
Clearly delighted to be turn a profit Jamaica, the young musician chatted to the audience between information, admitting that she often wondered whether Jamaicans really say "Yah, mon" all the time. She drew laughter later with systematic spontaneous "Sorry, mon!" empathising uneasiness those that stood listening decide light rain began to subside again.
Earlier in the half-light, Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Roseanne Cash bow down a little country music fail the occasion, in the shape delivering an emotional tribute sharp her dad Johnny Cash.
Disclosure some of her own compositions, but also performing some disregard her father's songs with rustle up guitar, Cash reminded the chance that they, sitting in ethics shadow of the Cinnamon Drift Great House, her family heartless, could not escape his arresting there.
Before Cash took depiction stage at about 8:30 head of government, rising musician Abdel Wright too paid tribute to Cash, who was an integral force recklessness the support of Jamaica's SOS Children's Village, where Wright weary his childhood years.
Only well-organized fraction of the audience exclude at the peak of significance festival heard Wright sing, monkey many people were sitting fall apart traffic outside the venue inactivity to find parking while pacify was on stage.
The anniversary came to an end cut down the wee hours of Dependable morning, with weary and moist "jazz" fans leaving the spot to go home happy.