REVIEW: Tineke Postma "clearly an exceptional player"

Friday July 08, 2011

irishtimes.com

Tineke Postma
By: Ray Chomsky

Leading a superb working group with Marc van Roon (piano/Korg/Rhodes), Frans van der Hoeven (bass) and Martijn Vink (drums), alto/ soprano saxophonist Tineke Postma is now clearly an exceptional player with no obvious stylistic debts. Poised and inventive, she’s equally assured inside or outside the framework supplied by a mix of originals and pieces by Monk and Villa-Lobos. Postma’s originals are in essence blueprints to open up space creatively for group interaction so flexible that the line between group dialogue and soloist isat times blurred. It may sometimes be a tad cerebral, but the best ( Falling Scales, The Observer , the ballad Tell It Like It Is , and Leave Me a Place Underground , a gorgeous setting for a Pablo Neruda poem brilliantly sung by Esperanza Spalding) share a lovely internal balance, impressive soloing and a subtle sense of surprise and discovery. see challengerecords.com

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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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