Tineke Postma: Keeping Honest in Holland

Tuesday May 24, 2011

From All About Jazz

Tineke Postma: Keeping Honest in Holland
By: R.J. Deluke

Tineke Postma’s bright voice from Holland has been making a mark on the U.S. scene over the last couple years, with its a bright, clear alto sax sound and a penchant for thoughtful, enthralling melodies. Postma started listening to classical music while growing up in Heerenveen in the northern part of The Netherlands, starting on flute before switching to saxophone. As she moved into music, she began exploring jazz little by little, among other forms of music. But her spirit and creativity have been unleashed in jazz, as evidenced by a brief, but noteworthy recording career. She jumped more into America’s consciousness last year with the release of The Traveller, with superb U.S. musicians Geri Allen, Scott Colley and Terri Lyne Carrington. But all her records sound good.

Recently, The Dawn of Life (Challenge Records) was released in Europe. It is scheduled to come out on September 13th in the U.S., and there will be some American performance dates around that time. It features her regular Dutch Quartet of Marc van Roon on piano, Frans van der Hoeven on bass and Martijn Vink on drums. Esperanza Spalding provides her distinctive jazz vocals on one of the cuts. Postma’s recordings show a maturing jazz musician with a clear, yet wistful, sound. She soars dreamily and digs in firmly. There will be a lot to come from this imaginative artist.

“I love the improvisation part. I’m really happy to have the luxury to express myself through jazz because it can go anywhere,” she says. “I love the interaction between the musicians on stage. I’m not the kind of musician who only wants to play a solo, show what I can do and be on my little island on stage. I like to have collective improvisation with all the musicians around me—having a dialogue. I think that’s really magic. It’s so diverse, it can go everywhere.”

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