Mel Cooke, Freelance Writer

Phillip Frazer takes a moment during performance at the Vintage Togetherness show held at the Comfitanya Lounge on Saturday. - Colin Hamilton/Freelance Photographer

The audience was tiny and the sound at times muddled, but there was no mistaking the quality music presented live and direct and very close to the audience at the Comfitanya Lounge on Saturday night.

In some cases, it was absence making the eye and ear grow fonder, as many of the performers were not the regulars on the vintage music concert stages.

With Junior Lincoln hosting and doing the occasional back-up vocal from his between-sets seat throughout the concert, when Thriller hit Dem Cyaan Cross The Border the small audience gave a big response and there was a 'pull up'. Roland Burrell honoured the Mighty Diamonds with I Need a Roof and also tipped his tam to Dennis Brown before hitting the big hit Johnny Dollar.

Prince Jazzbo hit it deejay style, doing his songs as they were recorded in the 1970s and 1980s, then, commenting after each that those were "young days", updated the lyrics. So after deejaying "a no one a we, a no two a we, a no tree a we inna de Twelve Tribes posse" he intoned the updated "sex shoulda teach inna school", riding the one drop mix with "dog dweet, puss dweet, rat dweet, mosquito dweet" to the delight of the audience. Crabwalking, the flip to Horace Andy's Skylarking, was modernised to deride the 'teke teke' boy.

Founding member of the Heptones, Earl Morgan, dipped into the trio's catalogue from 1967, saying, "this song create a lot of baby in Jamaica", before singing "you were my first love", the response deserving of a restart. However, the vocals got lost on Mr. Fix It, but the necessary adjustments were made as he closed with "I lost my baby", the line bringing loud cheers.

Phillip Frazer asked "I want you to stop children", and Legend had to come again. On the second go-round he cut to Some GuysHave All the Luck and, walking to and fro across the stage, Frazer informed I Will Never Let You Go. There was a huge 'forward' from the small audience and on the second go-round he honoured Delroy Wilson with They Trying To Conquer Me.

Frazer let down his locks, the end of which touched his heels, as he went R&B with Tell It Like It Is, which scored big with the audience.

Closing duties went to Bunny and Scully. They kept the pace uptempo with Feel So Good before going R&B to ask What's Your Name?

And they closed the night with a healthy chuck of Cherry Pie, the trumpeter taking an extended run to top off the music.