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Yasam Hancilar
He tours extensively with Yaşam Hancılar Band throughout The Netherlands, Turkey and Europe. Yaşam Hancılar’s debut album ‘Here’s To Life’ is released in December, 2012, and second album Strange Fish in 2017. His third album Rush Hour will be released on August 28th, 2020…
Awards
4th Nardis Young Jazz Vocalist Competition, 2008
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Yasam Hancilar Band: Here’s to Life
by C. Michael Bailey
Turkish vocalist Yasam Hancilar sings like an engineer. That should come as no surprise as he studied engineering before beginning his education and career as a jazz singer. It might be safe to assume that Hancilar is equally left- and right-brained, an assumption supported by his recording of standards, Here's To Life. Hancilar is uniquely analytical and creative as a musician. Supported by an international piano trio, Hancilar arranges ten tried and true standards, challenging their composition, intent, time signature ...
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by Edward Blanco
A singer from Istanbul, Turkey and student in the Jazz Vocal Department of the Amsterdam Conservatory, Yasam Hancilar realizes a dream with Here's To Life, his self-produced debut album as leader fronting an acoustic quartet of young, up and coming players. A passionate jazz enthusiast who favors the mainstream, straight ahead sound, Hancilar reprises the music of such icons as Irving Berlin, Cy Coleman, Oliver Nelson and Antonio Carlos Jobim among others, in compiling a repertoire of eight familiar standards ...
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