Emily Remler

For my first “comeback” post I would like to once again point your attention to the wonderful All Things Emily site. Since I originally wrote about this site on August 15, 2007, it has grown in leaps and bounds and has become the de facto site on all things Emily Remler. Lately, the owner and webmaster of All Things Emily has added a section to the site where you can now listen to complete audio recordings of Emily Remler live in various situations and settings. If you have never heard Emily live, then you really got to check these recordings out. Emily was in her element live and it is where she took her greatest risks musically. Her studio CD’s are wonderful to listen to but nothing beats hearing the Emily Remler experience live! So do yourself a favor, and click on over to All Things Emily. You’ll thank me later…:) Take care and all the best.

Thanks to Google’s caching system, I am able to get back some of the posts that i lost. Below is the original post I made concerning All things Emily.

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 aesthetic 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.