DKSJ All Stars feat. Tineke Postma
MO 16.10.2023, Club Knox, 20.00 Uhr
Saxophonist and composer Tineke Postma, Rising Star for soprano saxophone in the American Downbeat Polls 2019, tours internationally as a leader and featured guest.
She released eight albums as a leader which received great critical acclaim. Her last album Aria (May 2023 by Edition Records) featuring Ben Monder, Robert Landfermann and Tristan Renfrow received international raving reviews among a raving Downbeat 4 stars review. Tineke’s personal style can be described as lyrical, melodic and adventurous.
Tineke is part of two Grammy awarded albums by Terri Lyne Carrington («The Mosaic Project») and Dianne Reeves («Beautiful»).
Tineke also received various awards such as the European Musician of The Year (Academie Du Jazz, France 2020), the prestigious Buma Boy Edgar Award (2015), an Edison National Category (2011) for the Tineke Postma Quartet album “The Dawn of Light” and the Jazz Juan Revelations Award” (2009 Antibes Juan-les-Pins Jazz Festival).
Tineke worked with groups of prominent artists such as Kenny Barron, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding (Tineke’s album The Dawn of Light features Esperanza on one track), Dianne Reeves, Geri Allen, the Metropole Orchestra and the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw.
In 2012 Tineke joined the Global All- Star Concerts of International Jazz Day at the Assembly Hall of the United Nations in New York with Wayne Shorter and in 2018 in Melbourne, Australia with Herbie Hancock. In December 2018 she performed with Herbie Hancock, Esperanza Spalding and the Wayne Shorter Quartet for Wayne Shorter who received a Kennedy Honors Award at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Tineke studied at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and Manhatten 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.
Downbeat: «Postma’s artistic voice is a personal one on all fronts.»
Lineup:
Maika Nimi (voc), Livia Lockridge (voc), Loïc Faucher (fl), Humberto Zaldivar (tp), Lam Dan Nguyen (tp), Meret Siebenhaar (p), Alberto Santamaria (g), Leander Schöpfer (b), Nathan Triquet (dr), Ryan Ward (dr)
Leitung, Tineke Postma (sax)
