Looking for information on another guitarist I stumbled upon a site dedicated to the memory of Emily Remler. It is a wonderful site filled with personal anecdotes, memories, transcriptions and musical examples about Emily and the people around her all laid out in an aesthtic of warmth and soft colors. For those who are not familiar with Emily’s life and body of work, she was a young and dynamic talent who early on in her career caught the ears of Herb Ellis and Jim Hall who called her “just incredible”…and she was. Her early body of work encompassed a voice that lent itself more to the stylings of Wes Montgomery and John Coltrane, but that soon changed as she patiently developed her own musical identity woodshedding for hours, days and months at a stretch. And she could play practically everything from Bossa to hard-bop to blues and rock. She was the consummate musician who basked in the tradition handed down to her by players like Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow and Jim Hall, but kept the momentum of the now firmly entrenched in her musical goals and visions. Unfortunately, along with her musical brilliance were personal issues that ended up taking her life. Fortunately, there is a large body of work that will hopefully keep her voice alive along with allthingsemily.com.

The above photo is the property of Ed Deasy a wonderful photographer. His website can be visited at http://www.deasy.com/index.htm.