Tineke Postma – Saxophon
David Doružka – Gitarre
Robert Landfermann – Kontrabass
Tristan Renfrow – Schlagzeug
Multiple award-winning saxophonist and composer Tineke Postma (Rising Star Soprano Saxophone, Downbeat 2019) has toured internationally since 2003 and released eight acclaimed albums as a leader. Known for her lyrical, melodic, and adventurous style, she will release her ninth album on November 14, 2025, featuring Theo Bleckmann and her longtime European Tineke Postma Group.
Postma appears on two Grammy-winning albums (Terri Lyne Carrington’s The Mosaic Project, Dianne Reeves’ Beautiful) and has received major honors including European Musician of the Year (Académie du Jazz, 2020), the Buma Boy Edgar Award (2015), and two Edison Awards (2011, 2024).
She has collaborated with artists such as Kenny Barron, Esperanza Spalding, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and the WDR Big Band, and performed at events including International Jazz Day (UN, 2012) and the Kennedy Center Honors (2018). In 2023, at Wayne Shorter’s own recommendation, she stepped into his role performing his symphonic works together with his long-time collaborators Danilo Perez and John Patitucci, later bringing them to North Sea Jazz (2025) and upcoming tours are booked for 2026.
A respected educator, Postma teaches at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, The Jazz Campus in Basel and the Conservatory of Amsterdam.
PRESS
About the previous project ARIA:
"This will resonate with listeners who enjoy a fusion of innovative improvisations combined with compositions with an intentional artistic vision and desire to tell stories through music formed from the roots of jazz and European classical music."
The Jazz Word
"There isn't anything safe here and in the fractured splintering of the shards of rapture all four players maintain on this studio album ... you can't guess what's next. ...Given the quality here there are so many multiple interpretations of response possible which is just one reason why this latest album from the remarkable Postma - taking up the mantle of Lee Konitz and making a paradigm shift that contributes so much to the state of the art - works so well."
Marlbank
"The music is open and airy, but with a clear melodic vein in it. Postma is obviously a fearless musical soul who dares to go her own way and who succeeds in creating excitement and unexpected ways into her universe."
Nettavisen Nyheten / Norway
