I like to write multi-layered music with conceptual elements. The musicians I asked to join are free to do with it what they want. They are some of the most creative and skilful musicians around so I knew that it was going to be great whatever they came up with. Lastly, I feel it’s important to inspire female musicians to fearlessly follow their passion for jazz and to pursue a career in jazz music
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Tineke Postma

On tour

Dutch saxophonist, composer and Grammy winner Tineke Postma tours internationally as a leader and featured guest. She has released six albums as a leader which have been received with great critical acclaim. Tineke’s next album will be released Spring 2020 which she recorded in NYC with Ralph Alessi, Kris Davis, Matt Brewer and Dan Weiss. The album contains new compositions from Tineke.

Tineke has worked with prominent artists and groups such as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Kenny Barron, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, Dianne Reeves, Geri Allen, Nathalie Loriers, Tutu Puoane, the Metropole Orchestra and the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw.

Tineke is part of two Grammy awarded albums by Terri Lyne Carrington (“The Mosaic Project”) and Dianne Reeves (“Beautiful”). She is also received various awards such as the Jazz Juan Revelations Award” (2009 Antibes Juan-les-Pins Jazz Festival), an Edison National Category (2011) for the Tineke Postma Quartet album “The Dawn of Light” and the prestigious Buma Boy Edgar Award (2015). Downbeat Polls have listed Tineke as a Rising Star in the soprano and alto saxophone categories.

In 2018, she performed with Herbie Hancock, Esperanza Spalding and the Wayne Shorter Quartet for Wayne Shorter who received a Kennedy Honors Award in Washington. Tineke has performed twice at International Jazz Day Global concerts. In 2012, at the Assembly Hall of the United Nations in New York with Wayne Shorter. Most recently, in 2019 she performed in Melbourne, Australia with Herbie Hancock.

Tineke studied at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and Manhattan School of Music (2002) and lived in NYC from 2009-2013. Currently she is based in the Netherlands. She is part of the saxophone faculty of the Codarts Conservatory Rotterdam and also teaches at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.

Postma’s command of her instruments is inarguable. Her alto can be lyrical or serrated with equal dexterity; her work on soprano shows remarkable technical mastery of that recalcitrant instrument. Her melodic sensibility is nuanced and sure; there’s no showboating or pinwheeling, but a mature and thoughtful development, a flow of often striking ideas.

JAZZIN’AROUND

Everyone (on Sonic Halo) plays with grace and intensity, the compositions have strong melodies, and the solos are seemingly free of cliche. On subsequent listens, the influences drop away and what remains is very good music, a balm to the hardships of daily life.

STEP TEMPEST

Tineke Postma is an expressive, and gifted player with a lyrical approach which embraces and challenges the listener. Her compositions and lithe execution served as fertile ground for the quartet to discover many enjoyable surprises.

Geri Allen

Every new album demonstrates that Tineke Postma keeps improving. ‘The Traveller’ is a solid album which should give Postma worldfame

JAZZ HOLLAND

I’m impressed by her confident command of the jazz language, her thorough knowledge of harmony, and most of all, by her ability to truly sing through her horn…

Chris Potter

Sonic Halo #2 in Best Albums 2014

LA TIMES

I thoroughly enjoyed Tineke’s exceptional compositional skills and spirited improvising. To me music should tell a story, take the listener on a journey, motivate the mind, touch the soul and be sonically pleasing to the ear. Tineke’s music does all of the above…

Terri Lyne Carrington

During North Sea Jazz this music had an almost hallucinogenic effect.

JAZZBULLETIN (NL)