1. Emily Remler was an American jazz guitarist, active from the late 1970s until her death in 1990.
12 Facts About Emily Remler
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Emily Remler listened to pop and rock guitarists like Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Winter.
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Emily Remler settled in New Orleans, where she played in blues and jazz clubs, working with bands such as Four Play and Little Queenie and the Percolators before beginning her recording career in 1981.
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Emily Remler was praised by jazz guitarist Herb Ellis, who referred to her as "the new superstar of guitar" and introduced her at the Concord Jazz Festival in 1978.
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Emily Remler participated in the Los Angeles version of Sophisticated Ladies from 1981 to 1982 and toured for several years with Astrud Gilberto.
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Emily Remler didn't have to let you know that she was a virtuoso in the first five seconds.
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Emily Remler married Jamaican jazz pianist Monty Alexander in 1981; the marriage ended in 1984.
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Emily Remler played a Borys B120 hollow-body electric towards the end of the 1980s.
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Emily Remler bore the scars of her longstanding opioid use disorder, which is believed to have contributed to her death.
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Emily Remler is buried in Block 4, Row 2, Grave 18 at New Montefiore Cemetery, New York.
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The 1995 book Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists by Leslie Gourse includes a posthumous chapter on Emily Remler, based on interviews conducted while she was alive.
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Aged 18, Bailey first saw Emily Remler perform, at the University of Pittsburgh Jazz Festival in 1984 - she was inspired to take her own guitar studies.