Emily Remler

Emily Remler ( born September 18, 1957 in New York City, New York; † 7 May 1990 in Sydney, Australia) was an American Jazzgitarristin.

Remler grew up in Englewood and came from an art-loving family. After she started in blues bands, she studied at the Berklee College of Music. She then worked in New Orleans in a hotel Orchestra and accompanied where stars like Michel Legrand or Nancy Wilson, but also giggte with Bobby McFerrin and Branford Marsalis. Herb Ellis, who they rated as "new superstar of guitar ", it provided a recording contract. Already with the first album on which she played with Hank Jones, her breakthrough came. With David Friedman, she joined in 1981 in Europe. She worked with one's own group, but also for Astrud Gilberto, Rosemary Clooney, Ray Brown and Monty Alexander, with whom she was married between 1981 and 1984. Furthermore, they played duets with her ​​colleagues Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel and Larry Coryell and in a trio with the latter and Michal Urbaniak. She taught at Duquesne University, in 1992 a scholarship fund named after her einrichtete.

Remler died at the age of 32 of heart failure - a result of their heroin addiction. Two tribute albums were titled Just Friends (Vol. 1 and 2) played by her friends after her death, among other things, with Herb Ellis, David Benoit, Bill O'Connell and David Beberg. In 2006, the Skipheller Quartet Emily Remler the song in memory of her.

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