Emily Remler

Emily Remler (September 18, 1957 – May 4, 1990) was an American jazz guitarist, active from the late 1970s until her death in 1990.

Born in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Remler began guitar at age ten. She listened to pop and rock guitarists like Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Winter. At the Berklee College of Music in the 1970s, she listened to jazz guitarists Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, Herb Ellis, Pat Martino, and Joe Pass. Remler bore the scars of her longstanding opioid addiction, which is believed to have contributed to her death. She died of heart failure at the age of 32 at the Connells Point home of musician Ed Gaston, while on tour in Australia.

 

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