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    Emily Remler, live in Australia, 1989 - Tenor Madness

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    The late Emily Remler doing a Sonny Rollins tune, Tenor Madness on Australian TV in 1989. She was an amazing bop/jazz guitarist, graduate of Berkeley School of Music at age 18, developing her love for bebop and jazz guitar while a student there. She had started playing guitar at age 10...

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJYqqA1U0mc]Emily Remler - Tenor Madness - YouTube[/ame]

    Emily died on a tour in Australia in 1990 of heart failure at age 32.

    A later CD - her last - Catwalk, saw her moving forward from the Wes Montgomery style into her own...

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjjkywlSMXU[/ame]


    And probably THE best site for info on Emily's guitars, amps, strings and even pick...and a little insight into her personality...

    It is a damn shame that she left so early.




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    Emily Remler Resonates

    Jazz guitar fans may be unaware of Emily and that’s not too surprising, this being the first release of her music in 34 Years! 

    Culled from a previously unreleased collection of performances that were broadcast on KNPR Las Vegas in 1984 and 1988 as part of Alan Grant’s weekly radio program, “4 Queens’ Jazz Night from Las Vegas,” Cookin’ at the Queens captures Remler in quartet performances with pianist Cocho Arbe, bassist Carson Smith and drummer Tom Montgomery (1984) and trio performances with bassist Carson Smith and drummer John Pisci (1988). 

    I didn’t know very much about Emily’s career either, until this release came to our notice - I knew of her on an excellent 1989 album that I have from pianist David Benoit on the GRP label ‘Waiting for Spring’. She rose to attention during the 1980s, with half a dozen fine albums for Concord Jazz and winning annual Down Beat Magazine guitar polls.

    I’m putting my own negligence right by seeking out more

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    By Michael Ullman

    Cookin’ at the Queens is an invaluable addition to the legacy of guitarist Emily Remler.

    Emily Remler, Cookin’ at the Queens: Live in Las Vegas 1984 & 1988 (3 LPs, 2 CDs, Resonance Records)

    Decades ago, inom was standing at the back of the Regattabar in Cambridge talking with Pat Metheny about everyone’s guitar hero Wes Montgomery. I lamented that at the end of his career Montgomery was making records with little room for spontanitet. Metheny reproved me, and talked about the beauty of the way Montgomery states melodies. I am listening to the late guitarist Emily Remler play “Polka Dots and Moonbeams” and am reminded that she was not only a swinging, inventive jazz guitarist: she was also a great melodist.

    Remler, who died in 1990 at the age of 33 of a heart attack presumably related to her drug addictions, hasn’t been forgotten. Her recordings as a leader for Concord Jazz began in 1981 with Firefly, a quartet session featuring bebop le