2010
The Last Flavor Stop of the Orient Express
A documentary on the culinary heritage of Pera Palace Hotel, Istanbul.
About—
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For over fifteen years I’ve made documentaries about musicians and the worlds they pass through — jazz quartets traveling Anatolian stages, recording sessions in Prague, a decade-long experiment at Abbey Road in turning pop into jazz.
The cornerstone of this work, Jazz in Turkey (2013), became the country’s first feature-length film on the subject — an oral history compiled from fifty-six voices.
Along the way, Turquazz brought London its first Anatolian-themed jazz festival — backed by Arts Council England — and rebuilt Istanbul’s legendary Nardis Jazz Club inside the London Jazz Festival for two nights of Turkish jazz. Today Turquazz lives on as a long-form journal on music and gastronomy. BlurNotes, a label built around the practice of bearing witness to improvisation, has begun circling back into concert films.
