Remo Palmieri (1923 - 2002) hit the New York jazz scene as a teenager in the 1940's and almost immediately found himself playing with some the premier jazz artists of the time. He teamed up first with Coleman Hawkins and then Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. In 1945 he recorded with Gillespie and Parker and Red Norvo. His talents as a jazz guitarist and musician were in great demand and during this same period he recorded with Teddy Wilson. Then for health reasons, he took up a staff position at CBS and for more than 27 years he pursued a very successful career as a studio musician. If you listened to the Arthur Godfrey radio show on CBS in the 1960's and early 1970's you heard Remo Palmieri's guitar in the background.

In 1972 Remo Palmieri left the studio when the Godfrey show was canceled and he returned to playing in local nightspots in New York. Then in 1977 his friend Herb Ellis convinced Carl Jefferson to invite Remo Palmieri to the Concord Jazz Festival in Concord, California. At that festival Palmieri and Ellis teamed up for some duet playing and later that year they made the recording Windflower. That recording marked the end of a 30 plus year hiatus from recording for this talented jazz guitarist. Then in 1979 Concord Jazz produced the first recording on which Remo Palmieri was billed as the leader, Remo Palmieri.

In the 1990's Remo Palmieri continued to perform. He was heard at the 1998 JVC Tribute To Herb Ellis With Love, at the 1997 Tribute To Barney Kessel With Love From Your Friends, and at the 1996 Tribute to Tal Farlow.

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