Emily Remler, John Abercrombie - Nunca Mais

[angeloamericano]

, recorded with a pencil sharpener, that's a good one. The truth is Emily was a virtuoso who could have risen to the top of the heap . Larry Coryell once told me, if she would have lived she could have been one of the greatest ever, and he ment it. John Ambercrombie is total gentleman and maestro as well. Emily made a bad decison in Sidney a few years after this video was made, and it cost her her life. Her music lives...

[Siska0Robert]

Looks like it's recorded with pencil sharpener, but great music!

[ichisatori]

sorry, not 9:20, but 5:50

[ichisatori]

nice Martino stuff somewhere around 9:20.

love Abercrombie--he was making some excellent records during these years.

of course this is 14 years after Metheny showed up at berklee.

[jarbasg1]

Nunca Mais is Never More in portuguese.

[anwarrofiq]

Emily is nice!!

[brotherbarra9]

Why is everyone giving Abercrombie so much props? Emily is the fucking virtuoso and it's her song. She should be more appreciated. Emily has some of the most consistently amazing solos of any musician I've heard. Also her comping is badass.

[brotherbarra9]

Why is everyone giving Abercrombie so much props? Emily is the fucking virtuoso and it's her song. She should be more appreciated. Emily has some of the most consistently amazing solos of any musician I've heard.

[beleza175]

fantastic!

[RovertJify]

I personally find it interesting to see Abercrombie playing over a bossa-style track. Freely admitting that I know his material a lot better than Remler's, I think it's a well-performed song with nice, structured improvisation - especially showcasing the use of some tasteful diatonic devices.

[tubeiroe]

Man, Emily destroys John Abercrombie. Hands down, Emily is seriously bad.

[timjmoran]

@tubeiroe :oh, come on man.. that is not really true! Abercrombie does just fine

here-he is no slouch, and anyway, it's just silly to compare them & say one

"destroys" the other..I mean- what is the Point? dig how they have all pretty much got that chorus-ey, Roland JC-120 sound that was all the rage back in the 80's!!

[Lemisenpoika]

@tubeiroe thats bullshit. know music at all? its art. you dont compare picasso to dali do you? but still, peace to all, long live music, rip emily.

[vittigo]

I just discovered Abercrombie - and this is the real game :) but one is better than another. Excelent guitar playing by Emily and John.

[meekrob]

Sco was really working the skullet back then, wasn't he? :)

[Lemisenpoika]

@meekrob hahah :D the man got style respect !

[JackJazzer]

Mattc... OK and have you come up with any conclusion yet ?

[bluejazzcat]

This song is a Brazilian bossa/samba style and she is good at this style and, of course, jazz. Bossa nova uses the same type of jazz chord melody as jazz. I am from Brazil and LOVE both jazz and bossa. The beginning of the song goes like this "Sadness does not have end, happiness does.." (Tristeza nao tem fim, felicidade sim...).

[linodelvecchio]

Jazz is Jazz

[AmericanDiaz]

I miss the 80/90's.......

[pierrejazzlover]

Yeah great solo he is so musical n trasmits a lot, check my videos somtime

[MattcSowerby]

Yeah, I've been thinking about Emily Remler for about 10 years now.

[AmericanDiaz]

She is the unsung first lady of Jazz guitar and kicks ass on most men who think they can play Jazz, including myself, damnitt I hate it when I'm right!

[marazapan]

man great solo by remler...love the martino stuff shes got goin on...not a fan of the chorus effect but that was the times i guess.

[Fallaji]

omg her solo..

omg...

[rickso12]

Thank you for posting this, God, she was great

she would have been about 50 today, a huge loss

[gearslut1]

this song smokes....and johns solo is insane...

[elaforge]

Abercrombie!!!!

[54spiritedwill54]

She is missed so much. Such a loss for the whole universe.

[smoky0258]

emily is so bad ass. I have a 330 and man that guitar is frickin laborious to play and shes rippin on it. Its a shame heroin got to her. i wonder what she would sound like today.

[patcatyak]

I never heard of Emily before this morning while surfing U-Tube. This is very good. Definite Wes influence. Such loss. Abercrombie is fantastic also.

More to listen to besides Martino, Benson, Larry Coryell, Montgomery and Barney Kessell.

Looks like she plays a Gibson 335? Doesn't have P90's like a 330

[dahlia517]

Def a 335...she is smokin'. Agreed....terrible loss, gone way too soon. She's my only female jazz guitar hero.

[dahlia517]

Just checked out her site, and I was wrong...it IS a 330 that she modified with humbuckers. : )

[evilCB]

It's definitely an ES-330 - the neck joins the body at about the 16th fret on the 330. If you look on the the Firefly cover you'll see holes where the P90 screws were located. She obviously upgraded to humbuckers.

[TonyBurrell2]

WOW!!!!!!!

[coolweasel]

Wow. I'm speechless. Mr. Abercrombie's solo here is beyond compare. And Ms. Remler, well, her date of death is the same as my mom's date of birth. I dunno what that means.

[taildragger51]

Good lord! Absolute perfection! Abercrombie & Emily Remler..what a combination. Emily was beyond belief! An explosive player who would've nailed every heavy metal shredder to the ground.

[basssplayer]

Wow, I was at this gig, at the Berklee Performance Centre; a plethora of guitarists as I remember! I seem to remember Pat Metheney and Mick Goodrick were also on.

Jazzster, do you have any more from this gig? Or anything else from the same era at Berklee?

[cosiogalko]

You were at this show?

That is absolutly incredable.

Man, if you remember half this night and the performances taking place then you are a lucky person.

Wow, no kidding, you were at this show???? Emily in person. WoW,

Right on man.

Can you imagine seeing Emily and Metheny together? That would have been something.

[Jockobass]

Thanks for sharing such great music. Remler was a wonderful musician. I've seen Abercrombie two weeks ago with Jerry Bergonzi and Adam Nussbaum.

The music was modern Jazz at its best.

[jazzman3071]

I had the honor of playing with John and meeting having dinner with him and his wife. A great down to earth and very humble man.

[laurie1414]

Great stuff! I've always ben an Emily Remler fan. I have the album this track is from called Transitions from 1984. It was a shock what happened in 1990. Amazingly I still miss her after all these years.

I'm also a fan of Scofield and Abercrombie, I've seen both guys many times.

Thanks for putting this video out there, thanks a lot.

[evilCB]

Any chance you'd record a copy of Transitions for me? Corcord has deleted it from the catalogue and I'd love to hear it.

[Straker58]

Un brano strepitoso!

[jojobrouwer]

A good song, well played! A special treat is John Scofields haircut, don't you think?

[krowa11]

who is the drummer and bassman?

[pnnorton]

It says in description

[tecaster]

I saw john abercrombie live in germany with th e marc copeland quartet ....it was amazing

[jazzmaster3000]

I geuss Emily likes pat martino..

[gregmorrow]

Unfortunately, Emily doesn't like anybody anymore...RIP

[BigUglyGirl]

yeah no kidding.

[BigUglyGirl]

yeah no kidding.

[fretless001]

I love Jazz Guitar and this woman was simply wonderful beyond words. I rate her as the very tops. Glad to have some of her talent on CD!! Could do with more.

[gordyballena]

Emily is amazing !!!

[NicolaBenso]

John is amazing!!!

[YOUYOU47]

She wrote the song... hehehe!

[jazzfan610]

She is missed so much. Such a loss for the whole universe.

[caponsacchi1]

Abercrombie is closer to the Wes sound here and comes across even though Emilly's lines are more complex. Wish she had cut down on the electronic processing, probably Schofield's influence.

[angeloamericano]

This song was recorded by Emily and was written by her as well. Maybe there's another song "Brigas Nunca Mais".

[swingbossa]

That's an early Jobim tune, recorded many times, and still holds up well.

I agree that I could do without the guitar effects, but it doesn't take away from how strong and lovely her playing is. I still can't believe she's gone and it's almost 20 years now. Thanks for posting this.

[pmcd]

You sure about that?? Sure sounds nothing like the great Jobim tune "Brigas Nunca Mais" Perhaps it is exactly what Scofield said at the beginning.

[swingbossa]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. This isn't "Brigas" is what I meant to say.

[soupy264]

What a terrible loss.thankfully we some memories

[mattoox]

well Wesmom , you're right, she's really good. hope yer still playing jazz Ariel - mo

[Djazz777]

Hehe, north americans answer to Samba is funny....

Good music though, and she was a great player.

[mwjazzman]

thanks for this video I unfortunatly didn't get hip to Emily until it was too late. I have learned much from listening to her music as well as Wes. The more I play, the more I play.

Jazz lives

[TheDeLi]

Thanks. this is wonderful

[footcandy]

I'm terribly envious of anyone who got to see Emily in person. Thanks again for another great clip!

[bookfilmjazz]

Thanks for posting this. I met Emily in December 1989 as I had to write a feature article on her. Now, I am the only female jazz guitar player in my town so I totally understand what she had been through. I play some of her compositions from time to time as I want to keep them alive. I am sure there are others doing the same.

Once again, big thanks.

[Harmless71453]

Dear sweet Emily Ann was a swamp monster on guitar, wasn't she?

She once told me that she loved playing uptempo sambas and wished someone would write one for her. I did, but before I had a chance to give it to her she made her last trip to Oz.

Bless Emily Remler forever.

[mctroublepants]

The SOng is actually: "Brigas Nunca Mais". MMW do it.

[pmcd]

Actually not...Not even close to being the same song...

[thomasroc]

excellent

[mrlucky66]

This is Emily at her very best! I couldn't think of a better partner for this than John Ambercrombie, except maybe Larry Coryell. Larry once said "if Emily had lived, she could have been the best jazz guitar player ever! This great tune that she wrote, shows her love for Bossa and Brazilian jazz This video clearly demonstrates her virtuosity. Thanks so much