Tineke Postma Group

With her ninth album, VOYA (released November 14th on the modern progressive Swiss label Clap Your Hands), saxophonist and composer Tineke Postma continues her musical journey, showing that she never ceases to grow and to explore new sounds and uncharted paths.
For this December release tour, Tineke will perform with her Tineke Postma Group:
David Dorůžka (guitar, Prague), Robert Landfermann (double bass, Cologne), and Tristan Renfrow (drums, Amsterdam). After years of touring the world together, the group has forged a sound that is deeply personal, always evolving, and grounded in trust and attentive listening.
Not joining this tour—but featured on VOYA—is the evocative voice of New York’s Theo Bleckmann, a Grammy-nominated vocalist and ECM artist celebrated for his genre-blurring work across jazz, contemporary music, and experimental sound. The title VOYA resonates on multiple levels. It recalls “voyage,” a passage outward and inward; it honors “voice,” highlighting Bleckmann’s presence as instrument; and it invokes Oya, the Yoruba wind goddess of transformation, breath, and storm. Thus, VOYA becomes a journey through wind, voice, and spirit—a space beyond sound, a vessel for
listening and reflection.
This ensemble thrives by leaning into the unknown and dwelling in the present—in which the spirit of Tineke’s mentor Wayne Shorter lingers softly, honored in her interpretation of his luminous composition “A Place Called Somewhere.”

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