{{Short description|American jazz guitarist}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = Remo Palmier | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = Remo Paul Palmieri | birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|3|29}} | birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|02|02|1923|03|29}} | death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | genre = Jazz | occupation = Musician | instrument = Guitar | label = Concord }}
'''Remo Paul Palmier''' (March 29, 1923 – February 2, 2002) was an American jazz guitarist.
==Career== Palmier began his career as a musician during the 1940s, and collaborated with Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Teddy Wilson. In 1945, he was awarded a "new star" award from ''Esquire (magazine)''. He also played with Pearl Bailey, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan. He also became part of Nat Jaffe's trio.<ref name="remo">{{cite web|title=Remo Palmier – Jazz Guitarist, 78| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/09/arts/remo-palmier-jazz-guitarist-78.html|website=The New York Times|accessdate=3 August 2017|date=9 February 2002}}</ref><ref name="Benedetto">{{cite web|last1=Benedetto|first1=Cindy|title=Jazz Guitar Online Feature: Kudos to Kessel|url=http://www.jazzguitar.com/features/kessel.html|website=Jazz Guitar|accessdate=3 August 2017|date=1997}}</ref><ref name="New Grove">{{cite book|last1=Ferguson|first1=Jim|editor1-last=Kernfeld|editor1-first=Barry|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz|date=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1-56159-284-6|page=221|volume=3|edition=2nd}}</ref>
In 1945, he began performing with Arthur Godfrey on CBS Radio<ref name="Yanow">{{cite book|last1=Yanow|first1=Scott|title=The Great Jazz Guitarists |date = 2013 | publisher = Backbeat | location =San Francisco|isbn=978-1-61713-023-6|page=147}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Yanow" />
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.<ref name="Yanow" />
During the 1970s, he played with Benny Goodman and Dick Hyman. He participated in an all-star Swing Reunion in 1985<ref name="Yanow" /> and in tribute concerts to Barney Kessel (1997),<ref name="Benedetto" /> Herb Ellis (1998), and Tal Farlow (1996). He taught privately and his students included cartoonist Gary Larson.
== Death == He died in 2002 from leukemia and lymphoma.<ref name="remo" />
==Discography== ===As leader=== * ''Windflower'' with Herb Ellis (Concord Jazz, 1978) * ''Remo Palmier'' (Concord Jazz, 1979)
===As sideman=== * Louis Armstrong, ''Town Hall Concert Plus'' (RCA, 1957) * Louie Bellson, ''Louie Bellson and His Jazz Orchestra'' (Musicmasters, 1987) * Ruby Braff, ''Pretties'' (Sonet, 1978) * Benny Carter, ''Central City Sketches'' (Musicmasters, 1987) * Benny Carter, ''Harlem Renaissance'' (MusicMaster, 1992) * Cozy Cole, Red Norvo, ''Jazz Giants Vol. 3'' (Trip Jazz, 1978) * Dizzy Gillespie, ''Groovin' High'' (Savoy, 1955) * Arthur Godfrey, ''Jazz for the People'' (Signature, 1960) * Coleman Hawkins, ''Thanks for the Memory'' (Xanadu, 1983) * Lou McGarity, ''Lou McGarity: In Celebration'' (IAJRC, 1981) * Max Morath, ''Jonah Man and Other Songs of the Bert Williams Era'' (Vanguard, 1976) * Max Morath, ''The Ragtime Women'' (Vanguard, 1977) * Max Morath, Dick Sudhalter, ''In Jazz Country'' (Vanguard, 1979) * Red Norvo, ''Town Hall Concert Vol. 1'' (London, 1974) * Sarah Vaughan, ''It's You or No One'' (Musicraft, 1988) * Teddy Wilson, ''Teddy Wilson & His All Star Jazz Sextette'' (Allegro, 1956)
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