Sweet Soul Music, Bournemouth Pavilion

THERE'S no other music quite like it, the superbly rhythmic sound of black American Soul - and this show celebrated it superbly.

Starting with ex-Gospel singer Sam Cooke's 1959 Working on the Chain Gang, the golden hits of the '60s and '70s, from legends such as Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Ben E King and James Brown, came racing along with hardly a stop for breath.

The snazzy-dressed company of eight were each powerfully effective singers with exhilarating leg flying dancing skills to match.

And as for gloriously over the top solo turns, you could hardly top Howard Dean Johnson and Tim Frater.

As Otis Redding, Johnson started off calmly singing the wistful Sitting on the Dock of the Bay, then proceeded to hit the shrieking emotional heights with numbers like Try a Little Tenderness, and I'm a Lover Man, before ending up on his knees, and then flat on his back.

Likewise Frater as James Brown had the man to perfection.

With the audience on their feet for Knock on Wood and a wall-shaking Shout finale, these Soul Heirs were on a roll.