Dawn of Light (Europe)

Friday April 29, 2011

from guardian.co.uk

By:John Fordham

With last year’s striking album The Traveller, young Dutch saxophonist Tineke Postma not only declared a clear personal signature, but also that she was a big enough deal to engage the best collaborators – American drummer Terri Lyne Carrington played on that set, and Esperanza Spalding guests on the single vocal track here. Dawn of Light is even better, with Postma’s supple and softly blown alto and soprano lines, her ingenious but lyrical compositions, and the creative attentions of a superb Dutch piano trio contributing to its magnetism. Postma’s mix of preoccupied, glancing phrases and pushing swing on Falling Scales – a theme that could turn into a little classic – manages to be advanced without being inscrutable, and Spalding’s vocal handling of Postma’s Pablo Neruda arrangement is as light yet guilefully telling as everything she sings. On The Observer, the leader’s soprano sax twists effortlessly between free-time and swing over the urgent buffetings of pianist Marc van Roon, bassist Frans van der Hoeven and drummer Martijn Vink, and Postma initially builds the melody in doodles and casually dropped clues on the only cover, Thelonious Monk’s Off Minor. It’s a set with barely a flat moment.

Leave Me A Place Underground	5:32	Tineke Postma
Before the Snow	4:17	Tineke Postma
Crazy Stuff	5:01	Tineke Postma

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