Career-wise the Frisian Tineke Postma is taking giant steps. The talented alto saxophonist, who likes to mix traditional jazz with pop/soul influences, seizes any opportunity to make herself heard. She studied in Zwolle and after that at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, where she finished her studies ‘cum laude’. In America, where her debut album has had a lot of radio play, Postma studied with David Liebman, Dick Oatts and Chris Potter at the Manhattan School of Music for almost half a year. She grabbed hold of the yearly award for excelling conservatory students of the Foundation for Young Talent, won the Sisters in Jazz Competition of the America based International Association of Jazz Educators and last year she seized the Singer Laren Jazz Award. On her first CD First Avenue the debutante, who started playing when she was nine, displays a love for melody. In that context she states: “Technique and complicated runs will, in my case, never defeat the melody.”
