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naut Sep 16 2019 at 10:06 AM	Emily Remler was such a great guitarist who died much too young that I’m a little surprised there’s been no mention of her at the Garage. Listening to a live album of hers of late, I’m left wondering if there was any cross pollination, even subliminal, between Emily and Pat. I hear similar impulses--harmonics, long ascending lines, repetitive riffs over many bars, etc.--often, and they both worked at about the same time, before Remler’s untimely and tragic death at 32.
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naut Sep 17 2019 at 1:25 PM	Yo Bob: Emily says on the live album that "How Insensitive" is her favorite song to play. Pat also does that one on an album or two. I read somewhere that she said both Pats, Metheny and Martino, were big influences. You’re fortunate to have seen her live. -- mole, I’m sure you know of Emily’s record "East to Wes." Over at Q&A, Pat says "...of course emily remler was amazing." I’ve gotta get back to some of her other records. -- ER: "I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but on the inside I’m a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery." Still makes me smile.
molesoulsandal Sep 17 2019 at 8:51 AM	hey naut - i dunno about cross pollination w/emily & pat, but i do know that they both love wes montgomery, so there’s prolly some connections there . . . interesting that you mentioned her, as i was just listening to some of her stuff & watching a coupla interviews w/her just last week . . . . i hadn’t thought about her in a long time . . . . . she was a goodun, fer sure.
BobSmith1 Sep 17 2019 at 12:42 AM	naut- I’ve always been a big fan of Emily and think if she’d lived she would have developed into areas one can only imagine. Luckily I had a chance to see her live in Las Vegas in 1984 at The Four Queens. There was this show broadcast on NPR called Jazz Night From Las Vegas and they would record these live shows at the hotel/casino and broadcast them later. She was with the house band and played a bunch of standards in a traditional jazz setting of piano, drums, bass, guitar. I distinctly remember her playing How Insensitive. And just a young kid playing with all of these much older guys in the band but held her own with ease. Regarding Pat, at least in my own mind there was always a musical connection between her and Pat as he was so much on the scene breaking new ground and she certainly was too doing her thing. But definitely a connection and she would have been aware of his ever-enlarging presence as a musician, as everyone, especially younger guitarists, was. She was just a fantastic musician with a very soulful, musical, versatile style and she died way too young.
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