She stayed with my wife and I in Hawaii before going to Australia and I begged her not to go..to stay in Hawaii for a while and do rehab, postpone the tour..she said "I'll see you when I get back." Unfortunately she never made it back. What a tragic loss of an extremely gifted musician and wonderful person. I get melancholy from time to time thinking about her. She's up there jammin' with Wes and all the greats now! Love you Emily!
@@jongeiger7154 I "believe" this was, which was just recently posted. I serendipitously, stumbled upon this and Emily. I was just getting in to "jazz" in the late 80s but I had never heard her or run across her. ua-cam.com/video/F87PuNmI5D0/v-deo.html
@@TheBlueCream I love Tal; he is a self-taught natural, but he’s a very fast player, and sometimes speed can cover things up. You can take some of his recordings and slow them down (I used reel to reel which shows you how old I am). His rhythm can lack precision. But I get what you’re saying: “just about as good as a human can get” is a bit hyperbolic - which is not at all to detract from Emily’s playing. I went to Berklee just after she left; she was a legend there, which is saying something. At a certain level of excellence, judgment becomes opinion, not objective fact. We all have our favorites; it seems to me that music at its best should not be a competition.
Every time I watch and listen to Emily, I feel a great sadness at her untimely loss. She was truly great and very special, and if she was still alive today she'd be enjoying a great career all over the world.
She plays as if she was dancing. She really digs into the music, playing with heart and soul instead of brain only. I still could shed some tears when I think of the great loss.
Emily and i got to be friends in about 1988. We jammed a few times, talked and laughed a lot. She loved listening to Johnny Winter; especially the slide work. I turned her on to using a little distortion and volume, which she got a big kick out of, hence she recorded "This is me" and in LA, I was her guitar tech and she used my amp to record with. She was an amazing guitar player, she played very aggressively-she always said "yes I'm letting my male side come out" but she was very female.
I'd never heard of her until a couple months ago when I heard a tune of hers on the road, and it immediately captured my attention. Loved what I heard, but didn't recognize the guitar voice at all. It was impressive, quite unique. When the DJ said her name at the end of the tune, I said out loud, "Who's that?" Jotted down her name (while driving) and researched her when I got back home. I can't imagine how that happened, how she wasn't on the radar all those years. Too bad for me. Sorry to learn of her demise, but glad to finally learn of her accomplishments and recognition. Quite a musician. Big world out here. Lot's of greats.
Emilys playing doesnt hit you in the face, but 10 or so bars you would recognize her playing as unique. Its really a unique synthesis inb her style..LOVE that spontaneous cadenza- and how cool is it to see a women wearing a skirt on stage ! HER brand !
wow..beauty in her touch and the groovy licks of improvisation especially the Thumb plucking like the Legend Wes M makes us soulful..Thanks so much for this rare video..warm regs..siva..India..
holy shit! I just became a jazz fan. She played fast but not too fast. I could hear and feel every note. I can't believe that I never heard her until today. RIP Emily
robbie p These are all hallmarks of her playing - unfailing groove, feeling and melodic sense. Listen to her duets with Larry Coryell - great music all around, but she's just so incredibly convincing.
Every body got into jazz somehow. Some of us had parent s that listened some found it ourselves. just cause someone found Emily later rather than sooner is no dis. It is a big problem you are so quick to insult however. I din't discover her till she was dead either, and i probably waited in a line with her ....
Isn't her playing simply wonderful? What a terrible loss her death was! All of the greatest living jazz guitarists said that she was to be the torchbearer to take the baton from them and take the music forward into the 21th century - Joe Pass, Larry Coryell, Herb Ellis, Pat Martino, etc. - but she didn't make it, she just didn't quite make it.
@@MrDaraghkinch wow 8 years go so fast. Well didn't made a video but this was one of my first transcriptions, if you want a blues transcribed check out on my channel "Paul Desmond - Rude Old Man" . And let me know what you think
Great sense of humor...dry. Watch her teaching videos..it gives you an idea. very direct-she would always tell you exactly what was on her mind and never hesitated to call anybody on their crap...especially in a music situation..like if you were playing with her and rushing the time or not playing the pocket.She would say "oh come on man...you gotta feel it!" then she would smile that funny little side smile she does that lets you know she really likes you & pushing you to be a better musician.
Emily was in relationship with me and we were very happy together but we spilt because she couldnt give up drugs. Im too old now but still i miss her and i always watch her videos and just miss her alot. I am very sad she is gone😥but the memories with you always remains with me💔
Very good. One thing I notice about this performance is that because the audience isn't a jazz audience, they don't know that they "should" applaud solos. Which is great because you can actually hear what everyone is playing instead of having it obscured by the pointless clapping that jazz crowds feel obliged to provide after every solo. Was this the Australian tour on which she died? Very sad.
Although I find it nice and relaxing for a crowd to feel and applaud jazz solos, it's still respectful to not automatically clap, and being a classical musician, my instinct is to not. But I still love me some jazz :D
I'm pretty sure this was the tour from the year before she died. This was '89 and she died in '90. Great performance here though -- I never get sick of listening to it.
[yeah, 8 years late to the party] I had a jazz teacher who would get a little bummed when the audience didn’t clap after his solos. For music that comes deeply from the soul - which is a big part of improvisational music - the audience vibe can (sometimes) play a big part in what’s going on on the bandstand.
It’s so interesting that when you look at a guitar and see how it is constructed to be played with two hands and 10 fingers and then you see the best players are using all those digits, but the energy from just a couple fingers and a thumb are amazing to see.
"I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I’m a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery." -Emily Remler
She was an excellent muscian and a great guitar instructor as well. What a wasted and unnecesary loss it was to the jazz world and those who dig jazz music. I hope she's at peace with God. Ken, Toronto
@pamisato According to a book written by a famous living jazz guitarist Emily had quit drugs for a long time but got into a terrible nervous state whilst touring and begged him for cash to score one last time. He refused but somehow she got cash and hit the Aussie streets to look for a dealer. The surge of heroin after withdrawal for a long period caused a massive heart attack. It's pure tragedy. If she'd lived on she would've taken on the World. 100% talent.
Thanks for this important vid. This was made days before she died in Sidney.I heard there was a dissapointing show or something in Sidney and she made the WRONG choice. It still hurts!
At one time back in the very beginning of internet, windows 98 whatever it was ....she returned emails.... and was always kind.... definitely had her Chops together......
@ThatGuyOnRDSG yea sure... it's a standard jazz blues sequence in the typical key of Bb ( sax players like it) ... check youtube for lessons on jazz blues comping. If you're used to rock blues- there's the same 12 bars but a lot of intervening chords that match the walking bass lines - notice the turnaround -the last 2 bars - they'll change the sequence for different choruses. the Drummer has to swing on the cymbal - not heavy 4/4 like rock. Hope this helps.
@vetmusician I've never heard of any of those female guitarists you mentioned - I'll have to check them out right after this. I'm hearing a lot of Jimmy Smith in this too, the Hammond player - it's rare that you get a guitarist getting down the groove of a keys player on a guitar, without it sounding over done and over notey, if you get me. Simplicity can be stunning.
The recipe for a Wes-like sound is to use a traditional arch-top or semi-hollow body guitar strung with flat-wound or semi-flat-wound strings. You can set the tone knobs on an individual basis to get the best tone, depending on your particular way of playing, your amp, etc. Wes used only the scantest effects - just the tremolo and reverb on his amp. He played either Fender tube amps or sometimes a solid-state Standel. He played Gibson L-5 CES arch-top guitars. Wes, of course, played with his thumb all of the time, not only octaves and chords, but single note passages as well; he had the somewhat unique ability to play down and up-strokes with his legendary digit. he also used a lot of fret-hand glisses, hammer-ons, ghost notes, pull-offs and slurs to impart the horn-like articulation and flow so sought-after by jazz musicians regardless of what instrument they play. If you play with a pick, consider doing as a young George Benson did, and turn the pick sideways to lessen the "bite" of its attack upon encountering the string. That is why Benson can be seen cupping his picking hand as he does - it is to attain this angle for picking. Even using a pick, Benson came very close to copping Wes' sound - which definitely isn't easy to do. Emily Remler, on the other hand, plays parts of her tunes with the pick, but palms it and shifts to thumb-only when playing octaves and block chords, which is a nice Wes-style thing to do. Another great way to get that wonderful full sound of flesh upon strings is to use your thumb when playing rhythm guitar when it suits the mood of the song.
so much to learn from Emily Remler...
So tasty phrases!!! I was so lucky to chat with her when she was visiting at Berklee College Of Music!!!
Love your lessons
You are gifted
Thank you so much!@@Diego-uq3yg
She stayed with my wife and I in Hawaii before going to Australia and I begged her not to go..to stay in Hawaii for a while and do rehab, postpone the tour..she said "I'll see you when I get back." Unfortunately she never made it back. What a tragic loss of an extremely gifted musician and wonderful person. I get melancholy from time to time thinking about her. She's up there jammin' with Wes and all the greats now! Love you Emily!
Hello Perry.
Ron Ackermann
Was this from her last appearance and stop or did she continue on?
@@jongeiger7154 I "believe" this was, which was just recently posted. I serendipitously, stumbled upon this and Emily. I was just getting in to "jazz" in the late 80s but I had never heard her or run across her. ua-cam.com/video/F87PuNmI5D0/v-deo.html
I think her last appearance was in Adelaide, May 3 1990. There's now footage of that gig.@@MrCuckoobox
One of the greatest there ever was. This performance is just about as good as a human can get at jazz. The joy, the invention, the mistakes
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u obviously never heard Tal Farlow or Billy Bean etc
@@TheBlueCream I love Tal; he is a self-taught natural, but he’s a very fast player, and sometimes speed can cover things up. You can take some of his recordings and slow them down (I used reel to reel which shows you how old I am). His rhythm can lack precision.
But I get what you’re saying: “just about as good as a human can get” is a bit hyperbolic - which is not at all to detract from Emily’s playing. I went to Berklee just after she left; she was a legend there, which is saying something.
At a certain level of excellence, judgment becomes opinion, not objective fact. We all have our favorites; it seems to me that music at its best should not be a competition.
@@TheBlueCreamjust let it be
Every time I watch and listen to Emily, I feel a great sadness at her untimely loss. She was truly great and very special, and if she was still alive today she'd be enjoying a great career all over the world.
She plays as if she was dancing. She really digs into the music, playing with heart and soul instead of brain only. I still could shed some tears when I think of the great loss.
She was a tremendously talented musician. Gone way too soon. Thanks for posting this.
OMG .. what a talent and what a loss ..... i am feeling the sadness. How great she was!
Great right hand on Wes octave technique. Some of the best I have ever seen . Most people give up and go for the pick. Not her. Brilliant.
Love her voicing and those Wes octave slides simply amazing!!!
We miss you, EmRem!
Thank you for posting this!
Gotta love the phrasing and tone on this one!
Emily and i got to be friends in about 1988. We jammed a few times, talked and laughed a lot. She loved listening to Johnny Winter; especially the slide work. I turned her on to using a little distortion and volume, which she got a big kick out of, hence she recorded "This is me" and in LA, I was her guitar tech and she used my amp to record with. She was an amazing guitar player, she played very aggressively-she always said "yes I'm letting my male side come out" but she was very female.
Wow!!
I'd never heard of her until a couple months ago when I heard a tune of hers on the road, and it immediately captured my attention. Loved what I heard, but didn't recognize the guitar voice at all. It was impressive, quite unique. When the DJ said her name at the end of the tune, I said out loud, "Who's that?" Jotted down her name (while driving) and researched her when I got back home. I can't imagine how that happened, how she wasn't on the radar all those years. Too bad for me. Sorry to learn of her demise, but glad to finally learn of her accomplishments and recognition. Quite a musician. Big world out here. Lot's of greats.
She had great chops . Totally killer chops .Blues for herb is like a tour de force!
I never herd of her until today and you can bet I'm going be listening alot more since I'm a truck driver and Ms. Barber Lynn too😉🚛
Always a joy to hear Emily ,sure miss her as she was a great influence for all serious guitarists..
What a talent to leave us so early in her carreer. She should still be here with us sharing more of her wonderful music.
Love Emily...Check out those octaves, played with the thumb's flesh, sounds exactly like Wes ! Her dress is beautiful too.
She was an unappreciated genius,,, Many shall be called but very few are chosen ,,,,
She was the real deal...great to watch and listen.
Such a beautiful great guitarist!
Emilys playing doesnt hit you in the face, but 10 or so bars you would recognize her playing as unique. Its really a unique synthesis inb her style..LOVE that spontaneous cadenza- and how cool is it to see a women wearing a skirt on stage ! HER brand !
One of the greatest of all time -- at least for me.
u obviously never heard Tal Farlow or Billy Bean etc
Yes, she is.
wow..beauty in her touch and the groovy licks of improvisation especially the Thumb plucking like the Legend Wes M makes us soulful..Thanks so much for this rare video..warm regs..siva..India..
She is superb ..
Miss you, Emily............i'm still listening, still trying to play..........
Bless you for posting this absolute gem.
holy shit! I just became a jazz fan. She played fast but not too fast. I could hear and feel every note. I can't believe that I never heard her until today. RIP Emily
robbie p These are all hallmarks of her playing - unfailing groove, feeling and melodic sense. Listen to her duets with Larry Coryell - great music all around, but she's just so incredibly convincing.
robbie "p"...get your head out of your ...
Every body got into jazz somehow. Some of us had parent s that listened some found it ourselves. just cause someone found Emily later rather than sooner is no dis. It is a big problem you are so quick to insult however. I din't discover her till she was dead either, and i probably waited in a line with her ....
Isn't her playing simply wonderful? What a terrible loss her death was! All of the greatest living jazz guitarists said that she was to be the torchbearer to take the baton from them and take the music forward into the 21th century - Joe Pass, Larry Coryell, Herb Ellis, Pat Martino, etc. - but she didn't make it, she just didn't quite make it.
Imagine how i feel. I just found out today.
Emily Remler.
A great player who died way too young. :(
RIP Em.
Thanks for posting this, she was an incredible player.
Thanks for everything Emily:)
You were wonderful
Trying to transcribe this as my first solo, working hard to get it done. Amazing player !
8 years later, how did it go?!
@@MrDaraghkinch wow 8 years go so fast. Well didn't made a video but this was one of my first transcriptions, if you want a blues transcribed check out on my channel
"Paul Desmond - Rude Old Man" .
And let me know what you think
so nice to hear emily ....
We're still listening, baby doll.....
Never heard of her until now and she’s gone sad rip!she was great and beautiful
Sublime playing!
What a cool looking set
Wes Montgomery was a big influence on her. She is fabulous. Miss you Emily!
fantastic... thanks for posting!!
Great sense of humor...dry. Watch her teaching videos..it gives you an idea. very direct-she would always tell you exactly what was on her mind and never hesitated to call anybody on their crap...especially in a music situation..like if you were playing with her and rushing the time or not playing the pocket.She would say "oh come on man...you gotta feel it!" then she would smile that funny little side smile she does that lets you know she really likes you & pushing you to be a better musician.
Emily was in relationship with me and we were very happy together but we spilt because she couldnt give up drugs. Im too old now but still i miss her and i always watch her videos and just miss her alot. I am very sad she is gone😥but the memories with you always remains with me💔
Why have I not heard of this amazing talent, she is playing similarly to Danny Gatton... I love it!
That was stunning👌🏼😍
still love it!!
damn she was a fkng
great guitarist
a magnificent artist!
I got the chance to see her in New Orleans. She was great!
She really was something! X
En el video la vemos tocando el blues de Sonny Rollins, Tenor Madness, en un programa de la televisión australiana, poca horas antes de su muerte.
So great
congratulations to her!very strong mind,she really loved what she was doing.rip
I'm just sorry I had to learn of her at such a late date!
I love her smile
what a magical musician ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
damn she has some hip lines that I haven't really heard anything like honestly and I listen to it al
This is beautiful.
Emily!!!
Very good. One thing I notice about this performance is that because the audience isn't a jazz audience, they don't know that they "should" applaud solos. Which is great because you can actually hear what everyone is playing instead of having it obscured by the pointless clapping that jazz crowds feel obliged to provide after every solo. Was this the Australian tour on which she died? Very sad.
Although I find it nice and relaxing for a crowd to feel and applaud jazz solos, it's still respectful to not automatically clap, and being a classical musician, my instinct is to not. But I still love me some jazz :D
I'm pretty sure this was the tour from the year before she died. This was '89 and she died in '90. Great performance here though -- I never get sick of listening to it.
People clap at the opera too nothing wrong with that.
XDDD I thought exactly the same
[yeah, 8 years late to the party] I had a jazz teacher who would get a little bummed when the audience didn’t clap after his solos. For music that comes deeply from the soul - which is a big part of improvisational music - the audience vibe can (sometimes) play a big part in what’s going on on the bandstand.
It’s so interesting that when you look at a guitar and see how it is constructed to be played with two hands and 10 fingers and then you see the best players are using all those digits, but the energy from just a couple fingers and a thumb are amazing to see.
Just now discovering Mrs. Remier. What a player!
Great player!!!
She was my cousin and now I'm learning guitar too!
May I ask how it’s going with learning guitar?
Ye its been 9 years
@@guitarschoolnorthampton1870 she died
Nobody believes you Ariel
Girl swings big time......terrible loss R.I.P....just love listening to this
beautiful.... perfect
What a elegant style, but still full of fire!
R I P ... such a great talent ...
AMAZING! EMILY OWNS!!! :)
Huge respect for this guitarist. May the Gods bless her wonderful soul.
Emily died from a heart attack, not helped by her heroin use. Her music will always live, just love it and enjoy her wonderful talent.
Great!
I am not saying she sounds like Wes. But she does on this beautiful rendition of Tenor Saneness (Madness)
A real jazz guitarist and impressively, enjoyably so.
The best.
"I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I’m a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery." -Emily Remler
Wes never made it to 50 though.
Wes would say ...I may look like a heavy set middle age black guy. with a big thumb.....but on the inside im Emily Remler
Great❤❤❤!!
She was an excellent muscian and a great guitar instructor as well. What a wasted and unnecesary loss it was to the jazz world and those who dig jazz music. I hope she's at peace with God.
Ken, Toronto
@pamisato
According to a book written by a famous living jazz guitarist Emily had quit drugs for a long time but got into a terrible nervous state whilst touring and begged him for cash to score one last time.
He refused but somehow she got cash and hit the Aussie streets to look for a dealer.
The surge of heroin after withdrawal for a long period caused a massive heart attack.
It's pure tragedy. If she'd lived on she would've taken on the World. 100% talent.
yeah man addictions are shit. I gig with many cats that knew Emily that say the same thing as you
Thanks for this important vid. This was made days before she died in Sidney.I heard there was a dissapointing show or something in Sidney and she made the WRONG choice. It still hurts!
ESPETACULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can tell that Emily really dug Wes Montgomery. The octave phrasing in this piece is more than just reminiscent. Miss you Emily.
She's got the style of ERIC GALE a jazz ICON who passed away many years back in the album " TOUCH OF SILK " A COLD CUT ALBUM
Unfortunately she passed away in Australia ( september 1990) 32 years old.She was a genius forever
“Junk is not a kick, it is a way of life.”
- William S Burroughs
At one time back in the very beginning of internet, windows 98 whatever it was ....she returned emails.... and was always kind.... definitely had her Chops together......
Take Two is one of the albums I would choose for a "long-term-getaway".
She has very good posture on both hands. Looks very natural & relaxed.
Please! bring the website back online
too soon to depart us , she was an amazing
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa from japan!
I listen her guiter play first now!
greate player!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ThatGuyOnRDSG
yea sure... it's a standard jazz blues sequence in the typical key of Bb ( sax players like it) ... check youtube for lessons on jazz blues comping. If you're used to rock blues- there's the same 12 bars but a lot of intervening chords that match the walking bass lines - notice the turnaround -the last 2 bars - they'll change the sequence for different choruses. the Drummer has to swing on the cymbal - not heavy 4/4 like rock. Hope this helps.
@vetmusician I've never heard of any of those female guitarists you mentioned - I'll have to check them out right after this. I'm hearing a lot of Jimmy Smith in this too, the Hammond player - it's rare that you get a guitarist getting down the groove of a keys player on a guitar, without it sounding over done and over notey, if you get me. Simplicity can be stunning.
Magnifico.
Just the fact that she dares to take on this classic is a plus. But she does a very good job in transferring the sax to guitar.
VERY COOL!
You go girl friend..🎶🎶🎶🎸....👍🏽💥🤘🏽
love those 9th chords and the little riff at the end--are they 9 witha flatted 5th?
Damn! Killer sound on that axe. Wonder how she got it to sound so similar to Wes' thumb? Thick strings and thick pick?
you can see she's also playing with thumb!
The recipe for a Wes-like sound is to use a traditional arch-top or semi-hollow body guitar strung with flat-wound or semi-flat-wound strings. You can set the tone knobs on an individual basis to get the best tone, depending on your particular way of playing, your amp, etc. Wes used only the scantest effects - just the tremolo and reverb on his amp. He played either Fender tube amps or sometimes a solid-state Standel. He played Gibson L-5 CES arch-top guitars. Wes, of course, played with his thumb all of the time, not only octaves and chords, but single note passages as well; he had the somewhat unique ability to play down and up-strokes with his legendary digit. he also used a lot of fret-hand glisses, hammer-ons, ghost notes, pull-offs and slurs to impart the horn-like articulation and flow so sought-after by jazz musicians regardless of what instrument they play. If you play with a pick, consider doing as a young George Benson did, and turn the pick sideways to lessen the "bite" of its attack upon encountering the string. That is why Benson can be seen cupping his picking hand as he does - it is to attain this angle for picking. Even using a pick, Benson came very close to copping Wes' sound - which definitely isn't easy to do. Emily Remler, on the other hand, plays parts of her tunes with the pick, but palms it and shifts to thumb-only when playing octaves and block chords, which is a nice Wes-style thing to do. Another great way to get that wonderful full sound of flesh upon strings is to use your thumb when playing rhythm guitar when it suits the mood of the song.
You know what you're talking about!
I feel Herb Ellis's influence in this tune. This was a tough song to take on without at least 3 horns. Nice job!
It's that ,very difficult format...12 bar blues.
Emily was awesome what a tragedy-so talented.