F or a short while I took guitar lessons from one of the finest female jazz guitarists since Mary Osborne. F ili kratko, dok sam uzeo gitaru lekcije iz jedne od najboljih ženskih jazz gitarista od Mary Osborne. I never became a great guitarist, but that's because I never put in the time it takes to be a great guitarist. Ja nikada nije postao veliki gitarist, ali to je zato što nisam stavio u vrijeme koje je potrebno da bude veliki gitarist. Emily on the other hand, lived and breathed the guitar. Emily S druge strane, živio i disao gitaru.

O ne day I arrived at Emily's apartment to take a lesson and there she was in a leg cast and on crutches, having not exactly had the greatest time skiing. O NE dan sam stigao na Emily's stan da se sat i tu je ona bila u nogu i baci na štakama, nakon što nije baš imala najveći vremena skijanje. I told her Joe Pass was coming to town and he was performing on a double-bill with Jim Hall. Rekao sam joj Joe Pass dolazi u grad i on je nastupa na dvostruko račun sa Jim Hall. She said that she knew about it and she'd really love to go, especially since she was a good friend of Jim Halls, but there's one problem she said “at the moment I can't walk”. Ona je rekla da je znala o tome i ona je stvarno bih volio ići, pogotovo jer je bio dobar prijatelj Jim Dvorane, ali postoji jedan problem, rekla je ona "u ovom trenutku ja ne mogu hodati". I said “Emily, you're not heavy, so I'll just get as close to the Blue Note as I can and I'll carry you.” So, sure enough a few nights later I picked Emily up and drove down into Greenwich Village, found a spot on the north side of Washington Square Park and Emily got on my back and I carried her to the Blue Note. Rekao sam: "Emily, ti si ne teška, tako da ću samo doći što bliže Blue Note god mogu, a ja ću vas nositi." Pa, sigurno dovoljno nekoliko noći kasnije sam pokupila Emily gore i odvezli dolje u Greenwich Village, naći mjesto na sjevernoj strani Washington Square Park i Emily dobio na leđima, a ja ju nosio do Blue Note.

I wish I had a tape recorder with me that night, because up in the dressing room after the first set Emily asked Jim if she could borrow his beautiful cherry colored guitar. JA priželjkivanje JA je kasetofon sa mnom tu noć, jer se u svlačionici nakon prvog seta Emily pitao Jim ako je ona mogla posuditi svojim lijepim trešnja u boji gitare. Joe told her to play a tune with him. Joe joj je rekla da igrati skladu s njim. They had one beautiful interchange after another and it was something the rest audience downstairs never got to see. Imali su jedno lijepo razmjenu nakon drugog i to je nešto dolje ostalo publika nikada nije dobio za vidjeti.

After playing with Joe, rather than stay for the 2nd set Emily asked me how my back was and wanted to know if I'd mind checking out Leni Stern, because she was playing that night at the 55 Bar on Christopher Street. Nakon što je igranje sa Joe, nego ostati za drugi set Emily me pitao kako moja leđa i ištanje to znati ako bih umu checking out Leni Stern, jer je igranje te noći na 55 Bar na Christopher Street. So, playing horse again, we made our way over a few more blocks. Dakle, igra konj opet smo napravili naš put preko nekoliko više blokova.

What thrilled Emily that night was seeing not only two legendary guitarists at the Blue Note, but seeing another wonderful guitarist, who was also a great writer. Što oduševljen Emily te noći je vidio ne samo dva legendarni gitarista u Blue Note, ali vidim još jedno prekrasno gitarist, koji je također bio veliki pisac. Emily said “hey, I know I've got the chops, but I would love to write like Leni”. Emily je rekao: "Hej, ja znam da sam dobio kotleta, ali ja bi volio pisati kao Leni".

L eni was playing that night with a blazing guitarist named Wayne Krantz and as always her solos were silky smooth. L Eni je svirao te noći s gorući gitarist pod nazivom Wayne Krantz i solo, kao i uvijek joj je svilenkasto glatka. I'll tell more about Leni another time, but what I saw that night made me realize that every talented individual has something to glean from another. Ja ću reći nešto više o Leni drugo vrijeme, ali ono što sam vidio te noći me shvatiti da svaki pojedinac ima nešto talentiran da pabirči dalje od drugog.
B eautiful music is always an interchange. B eautiful glazba je uvijek razmjene.

In early 1985 I met Emily Remler, a young jazz guitarist who was getting some well-deserved attention at the time. Početkom 1985 sam upoznao Emily Remler, mladi jazz gitarist koji je bio uzimajući neke dobro zasluženi pozornost na vrijeme. I heard one of her records, a trio setting with my old friends Bob Moses and Eddie Gomez on drums and bass and was impressed. Čuo sam jedan od njezinih zapisa, trio okruženju s mojim starim prijateljima Bob Mojsije i Eddie Gomez na bubnjevima i bas i bio impresioniran. Emily was creative, smart, swung like crazy, and had a time feel that was just about the best I had ever heard from any guitarist, male or female. Emily je kreativan, pametan, zamahnuo kao lud, i imao je osjećaj da je vrijeme samo o najbolje što sam ikada čuo iz bilo kojeg gitarist, muško ili žensko.

Emily and I started playing together as a duo. Emily i ja počeo svirati zajedno kao duo. We toured the United States and Europe off and on for about a year and were briefly involved romantically, until I realized that we had very little in common. Mi turneje po Sjedinjenim Državama i Europi na off i za oko godinu dana i bili su uključeni romantično ukratko, dok nisam shvatio da smo imali vrlo malo zajedničkog. We made a duet record for Concord Records, Together , which still stands up today, I think, especially as a testament to Emily's genius. Napravili smo duet rekord za Concord Records, zajedno, koji još uvijek stoji do danas, mislim, osobito kao testament Emily's genija. When the record was released there was lot of reaction from the jazz guitar community. Kad zapisnik je objavljen je bilo puno reakcija iz zajednice jazz gitaru. One publication, The Texas Monthly , had a long article analyzing the different soloing approaches we had. Jedna publikacija, Texas Mjesečno, imao dugu članak analizira različite pristupe soloing smo imali. They surmised that Neal Tesser, who wrote the liner notes, had confused my playing with Emily's and Emily's playing with mine! Pretpostavili su da Neal Tesser, koji je napisao liner notes, imao zbunjen moje igranje sa Emily Emily i igranje sa mina! I thought that was kinda funny because ever since I started doing two-guitar things, even musicians who knew both of us sometimes couldn't tell us apart. Mislio sam da je nekako smiješno, jer otkad sam počela raditi dvije stvari-gitara, čak i glazbenika koji je znao i od nas ponekad ne može nam reći apart. The first example of this I recall came from Jack Bruce, who also said he couldn't tell me from John McLaughlin when he first heard “Spaces”. Prvi primjer za to se sjećam je došao iz Jack Bruce, koji je također rekao da ne može reći mene od John McLaughlin, kada je prvi put čuo "prostora". But where McLaughlin came off sounding like a high-flying rocket, Emily was like a poet when she played. Ali gdje McLaughlin došao off zvučanje poput high-leti raketa, Emily je kao pjesnik kad je igrao. I recall one bizarre incident on tour in Germany when we were in a doctor's office. Sjećam se jedne bizarne incident na turneji u Njemačkoj, kada smo bili u ambulanti. The doctor had a guitar there, an entry-level solid-body, with a small amp. Liječnik je imao gitaru tamo, entry-level čvrstog tijela, s malim amp. Emily picked it up and plugged in and started playing just with her fingers – no pick. Emily je pokupila i uključen u i počeo igrati samo s prstima - bez motika. We were all mesmerized by what she was doing: chords, timing, feel, counterpoint, and spontaneity. Mi smo bili svi očarani onim što je radila: akordi, vrijeme, osjećaj, kontrapunkt, i spontanost.

Emily died an untimely and all-too-early death in 1990 at the age of 32. Emily je umro prerano i sve-previše-prerane smrti u 1990 u dobi od 32 godine. Monty Alexander, her ex-husband, said it best; “She's out of town. Monty Alexander, njezin bivši suprug, rekao je da je najbolje: "Ona je iz grada. She'll be back” – I believe that – the music was just too good. Ona će se vratiti "- Vjerujem da je - glazba je samo previše dobro.