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Emily Remler Has Been Dead For 35 Years But Her New Album Is Terrific

Cookin’ at the Queens (Resonance Records), by guitarist Emily Remler, now heard for the first time, is a double-disc doozy of guitarist Emily Remler performing live in Las Vegas in 1984 and 1985 in both quartet and trio settings. Heavily influenced by Wes Montgomery, she rambles through bebop, modal classics like “So What” by Miles Davis and “Impressions” by John Coltrane, Sinatra’s first hit (“Polka Dots and Moonbeams”), blues and balladry.

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