Suresh Singaratnam is still in his earliest years as a recording musician, yet his talents are already radiant. Suresh has been trained as both a classical and a jazz musician, and he has recordings to highlight both styles, yet he is able to maintain the important aspects of each music without his music becoming a fusion of two styles- his music stays true and authentic to both classical and jazz. On this album, entitled Two Hundred Sixty One, Vol. 1, Suresh Sinaratnam shows that as a trumpet player, he has the strength, agility and dynamics needed to be a serious classical musician. The collection of pieces that he has chosen to perform range from a slow tempo (I Capuletti e I Montecchi, Act 1 - Scene 1 - "Oh! Quante Volte") to a faster tempo (The Flight Of The Bumble Bee - the Tale of Tsar Saltan: Act III), but due to Suresh's expert use of dynamics, these pieces never seem to drag on.
When Suresh choses to play a slower piece, his trumpet is used with eerie beauty. Each note his held with perfection, starting quiet, only to become louder and louder the longer the note is held. This technique is a powerful one, allowing Suresh achieve the full magnitude of each note that had been written so many years ago. But on the other hand, Suresh can also use his trumpet as an assault riffle, as he does in The Flight of the Bumble Bee, where he rapidly lets off note after note, each maintaining a crisp sound- even at such a fast tempo, each note is heard perfectly without any sort of meshing.
Many of these songs also contain a piano, which again, is used with the highest quality. The piano is used to add texture and seems to beautifully duel the notes of the trumpet; the pieces chosen for this album seem to be on the verge of conversational style. The notes and rhythms of the trumpet seem to always be in conflict with those of the piano, yet the notes themselves of each instrument seem to always complement each other. This is a difficult feat to accomplish, yet Suresh is able to work in a way where the two instruments are in perfect unison. This is only the first of many albums to come from Suresh, and by showing this much promise so early on in his career, he is bound to gain critical acclaim from many around the world.
Be sure to check back in tomorrow for my review of Suresh Singaratnam's Jazz album entitled Lost In New York.
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I made a post about this album last week. But incase you missed it, I have posted up a video below explaining what Suresh Singaratnam has vowed to do. Long story short- If he sells 1 million copies of this album, he will donate $2 million to cancer research.
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