That was the first thing that got me about her, from the first day I heard and played with her. That is as it should be. The Beginning She was born in Manhattan on Sept. By the time she was 10, she was using it to teach herself folk songs and music she liked on the radio. Yet at 16, when she graduated early from high school, she was planning to pursue graphic design until she was unexpectedly accepted into Berklee College of Music.
It was at Berklee that she really became familiar with jazz. The melodicism of Paul Desmond captivated her. Then came Pat Martino and, at last, Wes Montgomery, who quickly became her idol. When a teacher told her that she had bad time, she spent uncounted hours practicing with a metronome.
She finished her degree at 18 and moved with Masakowski to his hometown of New Orleans. I was forced to come up to a certain level of playing. She would push herself into situations where she had to outperform and show what she could do.
When Herb Ellis came to town in , Remler boldly introduced herself. Within a year, she had amicably ended her relationship with Masakowski and gone to New York.
She took something with her besides her musical gift. I even got her to quit smoking. But then I think she started playing with the more party-oriented types of groups, and it started to deteriorate. Yet it had an additional layer of difficulty for her. She landed a job accompanying vocalist Astrud Gilberto, and began introducing herself to guitarists she heard around town.
They jammed together. He signed her to record an album of her own for what was at the time a guitar-centric label. From there things moved quickly. On the strength of Firefly , Jefferson extended her contract for three additional albums.
When it came time to make her third record for Concord, she had enough clout and confidence to insist that the full quartet make the date. That progress continued with Catwalk , released in early Critics agreed. So did guitar great Larry Coryell, who heard Catwalk upon its release.
They hit the touring circuits, playing international festivals as well as clubs and guitar workshops. They also had a brief romance—a new partnership augmented by the dissolution of another. After two and a half years, her marriage to Alexander had ended in divorce. It was, perhaps, a harbinger of more difficult times to come. But to Lees in , she admitted that the drugs were a factor too—even after the fact.
They were only rumors, however, and those who knew her personally were protective of her—and still are. Moses recalls finding a stash of pills in her car one night when she was driving him home from a gig. I made it up, and I saw the bed there, and I just kinda lunged for the bed. This is from half of one?
Emily Remler - Daahoud. Emily Remler - Snowfall. Emily Remler - Hot House. Emily Remler - Sweet Georgie Fame. Emily Remler - Blues For Herb. Emily Remler - East To Wes. East to Wes. The late guitarist's last CD to be released before her premature death is her finest effort.
Emily Remler's fluid technique brightens such seldom-heard numbers as Clifford Brown's Daahoud and her simplified arrangement of Claude Thornhill's lovely Snowfall, as well as more relaxed tunes like Sweet Georgia Fame. Album 8 Songs. East to Wes Emily Remler. Released on: Composer this album, East to Wes, just six years later, Remler's own personality finally shines through in a tribute to her idol. Montgomery's influence can be clearly discerned in every piece, but now we also have the benefit of Remler's unique interpretation of Wes Montgomery's legacy, through a series of her own compositions.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 9, Verified Purchase. This is one of those albums around witch it is difficult to separate the music and the excellent jazz guitarist who died tragically young paying tribute to another.
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