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Remo Palmier
In 1945, he began performing with Arthur Godfrey on CBS Radio and taught Godfrey to play the ukulele. He was with the Godfrey show for twenty-seven years. He changed his name legally in 1952 to Palmier, omitting the "i" at the end, to avoid being confused with Eddie Palmieri.
When the Godfrey show was canceled in 1972, Palmier returned to playing clubs in New York. In 1977, his friend Herb Ellis convinced Carl Jefferson to invite Palmier to the Concord Jazz Festival in Concord, California. At the festival, Palmier and Ellis performed as a duo. Later that year, they recorded Windflower, which ended Palmier's thirty-year hiatus from recording. In 1979, Concord Jazz produced Remo Palmier, the only album on which he was billed as the leader.
During the 1970s, he played with Benny Goodman and Dick Hyman. He participated in an all-star Swing Reunion in 1985[4] and in tribute concerts to Barney Kessel (1997), Herb Ellis (1998), and Tal Farlow (1996). He taught privately and his students included cartoonist Gary Larson.
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Herb Ellis & Remo Palmier: Windflower
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In the 1970s, Concord recorded many great jazz albums, especially ones by guitarists. Back in 2010, I posted on Barney Kessel's Soaring, which has long been a favorite. Another Concord winner is Herb Ellis and Remo Palmier's Windflower, a perfect album released in 1978. The two guitarists were backed by George Duvivier on bass and Ron Traxler on drums. Elllis was best known as a member of the Oscar Peterson Trio from 1953 to 1958. He also composed Detour Ahead ...
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Remo Palmieri: Swinging and Inventive Jazz Guitarist
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All About Jazz
Guitarist Remo Palmier played with Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker in the early part of his career, and established his own reputation as a swinging and inventive guitarist. He was known to a wider television audience as the guitarist on The Arthur Godfrey Show, a position he held for 27 years from 1945.
He was born Remo Paul Palmieri, but later dropped the final 'i' from his name. He was self-taught on guitar, and began his ...
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Remo Palmier
Instrument: Guitar
Born: March 29, 1923
Died: February 2, 2002
