What a surprising combination: the group of Dutch alto saxophonist
Tineke Postma (1978) and her famous American colleague
Greg Osby (1960). They made the album
Sonic Halo together which will be released this year by Challenge Records. The album consists solely of their own compositions in which the two contrast the original approach of Postma, with its European roots, against the contemporary, energetic, American style of Osby. Tineke Postma (who has also worked intensively with Terri Lyne Carrington) met Greg Osby in 2007 while on tour in Mexico. He subsequently became her mentor in New York, which led to a dramatic change in her view of music. They both play alto and soprano sax, and this also gives rise to unexpected confrontations. Like Greg Osby (who has made thirteen albums for Blue Note) Tineke Postma is an internationally highly acclaimed jazz musician: she is one of the few Europeans listed in the polls of the jazz magazine
Downbeat.
