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"A Journey That Matters," the third album as a leader by the award-winning Dutch saxophonist and composer Tineke (pronounced TEE-na-ka) Postma and is the first recording on the new label Foreign Media Jazz. The CD which has already received rave reviews in the Netherlands where it was released in June 2007 and in Japan since its release there in July 2007, A virtuoso instrumentalist equally eloquent on the tenor, alto and soprano saxophone, Postma is reunited on "A Journey That Matters" with American drummer Terri Lyne Carrington who appeared on the saxophonist's previous release "For The Rhythm" (Munich Records 2005). The new CD also features pianists Rob van Bavel, Marc Antoni van Roon and Randal Corsen, bassist Frans van der Hoeven and guitarist Edoardo Righini, all leading members of the contemporary Dutch jazz scene. With the release of "A Journey That Matters" Tineke Postma is also making an original musical statement, one that is just the latest stop on an engaging musical odyssey the saxophonist invites aficionados of contemporary modern jazz around the world to join her on.