Comments on: Just Friends

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:00:36 +0000

Hi Jim: Sorry — I haven’t checked this site in quite a while and just today saw your question. Emily worked very hard and at the same time she was a natural talent. You guessed correctly. She put in the hours — definitely. Jill

By: jim hahn

jim hahn — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:18:45 +0000

Jill,

I have to ask you was Emily a natural player or one who actually had to work really, really hard to play the way that she did? Of course maybe Emily was both of these I might guess!? Thanks, jim hahn in Maine

By: Susan Itkin Kurshenoff

Susan Itkin Kurshenoff — Sun, 03 May 2009 21:37:38 +0000

On this 19th anniversary of your passing –

thinking of you, Em . . . as always

Sue

By: Jill Siegel

Jill Siegel — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:29:26 +0000

Emily was my close friend and roomate at Berklee in 1975-76. She was 17 and I was 18 years old. I remember sitting on our beds and playing “How Insensitive” – Emily on guitar of course and me on flute — reading out of our dog eared copy of the “Real Book”. Our little record player sat on top of the dresser — and a day didn’t go by where we wouldn’t put on “Some Skunk Funk” and dance around the room singing all the Brecker Brothers riffs. Two other albums in heavy rotation in our dorm room were “All Things Must Pass” by George Harrison and of course Emily’s Wes Montgomery collection.
Emily was a beautiful person and a wonderful friend. After Berklee, we lost touch with each other – I lived in Brazil during the 80s — and when I returned only found out about her passing one day while I was working out in my local gym. CD 101.9 was on the radio there — and the announcer said “And now here’s the late great Emily Remler.” I got off the bike – went to the pay phone and called the station. I said “What do you mean the late great Emily Remler?” I was saddened and shocked.
It is heart warming to read so many tributes to her on these pages — and see how many people she touched with her music over the years.

By: Hank Jones

Hank Jones — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:29:41 +0000

Emily Remler was a fine guitarist and a friendly person. I enjoyed playing with her very much. I certainly don’t know of any other woman guitarist but regardless of that fact, she was as good as any guitarist I’ve ever played with – and I’ve known a few.