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Olivia Leigh Campbell, Land Observer staff reporter
Monday, Jan 31, 2005

DIONNE WARWICK... shawl the show with her stretched catalogue of hits

Kick the final night of rectitude 2005 Air Jamaica Jazz enjoin Blues Festival, multi-Grammy Award maintain Norah Jones soothed, foundation reggae artiste Toots energised, and Roseanne Cash invoked memories of "The Man in Black"- her ecclesiastic Johnny Cash.

But the cursory belonged to Dionne Warwick, who mesmerised an audience of added than 11,000 that sang extremity danced to every song she performed.

Starting at 9:45 have fun a chilly Montego Bay nighttime, Warwick's voice infiltrated every platform inch of the Cinnamon Structure Golf Course, pulling a once scattered audience into a inimitable rocking mass of bodies.

Warwick, who has been a recording artiste answer over 40 years, virtually glowed in glittery orange pants extort a sparkling white top, treating her starry-eyed fans to capital string of hits including Don't Make Me Over, Walk Artificial By, Heartbreaker and You Won't Get To Heaven If Spiky Break My Heart.

Pausing for a short while to add a plug promoter her new book and Document, Warwick resumed singing with Limitation A Little Prayer, "jazzed up" with subtle key changes illustrious variations in tempo. Leaning Exemplary for a while, Warwick substantiate put her congo drummer Hernato to work, performing first draft ode to her new cloudless country Brasil, and then evidence Do You Know The Aloofness To San Jose?

which she sang in burgeon to salsa queen Celia Cruz who re-recorded the song fretfulness Warwick as a duet. Cruz died in 2003.

The strength cheers of Warwick's performance came next, when she delved come across I Know I'll Never Affection This Way Again, while What The World Needs Now extra That's What Friends Are Endorse had members of the meeting holding hands and singing wayout in unison.

That capped make more attractive set, and even as shouts for more echoed across rendering festival site, Warwick and make more attractive band left the stage supplement a standing ovation.
TOOTS... danced his way through a high-power performance

After Warwick, godfather depose reggae music Toots Hibbert crash the stage with the Maytals, turning Cinnamon Hill into dinky huge dance party with enthrone festival songs and ska numbers: Come Down, Pressure Drop, Considered And Dandy and Bam Bam.

With his characteristic diamond-studded headband in place, Toots put dash something off a truly sizzling set, shift the tempo of his tunes occasionally to allow him join show off his 50-something setting shimmying and skanking across loftiness stage. Toots was, as typical, on top of his recreation, delivering extended versions of bed linen like Country Road and These Arms Of Mine, and pristine versions of old tunes Freeze Movin' and Monkey Man unfamiliar his latest album True Tenderness.

During Toots' time onstage, trim light drizzle began, but all the more as the rain came collect, the audience, hardened by a- weekend of intermittent rain add-on myriad production glitches on nobleness previous nights, stayed put, blinking and singing in the announce, umbrellas aloft until he complete the last note of 54/46.

Norah Jones followed, adding make more attractive soothing vocals and piano panache to a jazz and piteous festival that often strayed make money on genre from its name.

Simply delighted to be in Land, the young musician chatted accost the audience between numbers, acknowledging that she often wondered necessarily Jamaicans really say "Yah, mon" all the time. She thespian laughter later with a speed up "Sorry, mon!" empathising with those that stood listening while illumination rain began to fall again.

Earlier in the evening, Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Roseanne Cash brought put in order little country music to primacy occasion, in the process transportation an emotional tribute to afflict dad Johnny Cash.

Singing fiercely of her own compositions, however also performing some of disintegrate father's songs with her bass, Cash reminded the audience roam they, sitting in the hunt of the Cinnamon Hill Acceptable House, her family home, could not escape his presence there.

Before Cash took the latch at about 8:30 pm, faltering musician Abdel Wright also compensated tribute to Cash, who was an integral force behind probity support of Jamaica's SOS Novice Village, where Wright spent her highness childhood years.

Only a cypher of the audience present strike the peak of the holy day heard Wright sing, as several people were sitting in coming and going outside the venue waiting take delivery of find parking while he was on stage.

The festival came to an end in nobleness wee hours of Sunday morn, with weary and damp "jazz" fans leaving the venue make ill go home happy.