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Joe Puma (August 13, 1927 – May 31, 2000) was an American jazz guitarist.

Puma was born in the Bronx, New York. His first professional experience came with Joe Roland in 1949–50. He played in the band led by Cy Coleman.^[1] He acted as a session musician for many jazz musicians of the 1950s, including Louie Bellson, Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five, Eddie Bert, Herbie Mann, Mat Mathews, Chris Connor, and Paul Quinichette, Lee Konitz, and Dick Hyman;^[2] he also recorded extensively as a leader at this time. In the 1960s he worked with Morgana King, Bobby Hackett, Gary Burton, and Carmen McRae, and between 1972 and 1977 he and Chuck Wayne led an ensemble. He continued to perform and teach into the late 1990s.

Honors

In 1957 he won the New Star Award for Guitar from Metronome Magazine.^[3]

Discography

As leader

• 
  East Coast Jazz Series (Bethlehem, 1954)


• 
  Joe Puma Quintet (Bethlehem, 1954)


• 
  Wild Kitten (Dawn, 1957) with Steve Lacy, Herbie Mann, Oscar Pettiford
  


• 
  Joe Puma Jazz Trio and Quartet (Jubilee, 1957)


• 
  Like Tweet (Columbia, 1961)


• 
  Interactions (Candid Productions/City Hall, 1974)


• 
  Shining Hour (Reservoir, 1984) with Hod O'Brien and Red Mitchell


• 
  It's a Blue World (Euphoria Jazz, 1999) with Murray Wall and Eddie Locke
  


• 
  What Is There to Say? (Nagel Heyer, 2000) with Warren Vaché^[4]
  

As sideman

With Eddie Bert

• 
  Encore (Savoy, 1955)

With Chris Connor

• 1955 This Is Chris
  


• 1957 Chris
  


• 1957 Chris Connor Sings the George Gershwin Almanac of Songs
  


• 1998 All About Ronnie
  

With Morgana King

• 1992 This Is Always
  


• 1997 Every Once in a While
  


• 1998 Looking Through the Eyes of Love
  


• 2000 Tender Moments
  

With Herbie Mann

• 
  Herbie Mann Plays (Bethlehem, 1956)


• 
  Flamingo (Bethlehem, 1955)


• 
  The Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet (Bethlehem, 1955)


• 
  Love and the Weather (Bethlehem, 1956)


• 
  Flute Flight (Prestige, 1957) with Bobby Jaspar
  


• 
  Flute Soufflé (Prestige, 1957) with Bobby Jaspar


• 
  Sultry Serenade (Riverside, 1957)


• 
  Salute to the Flute (Epic, 1957)


• 
  The Jazz We Heard Last Summer (Savoy, 1957)


• 
  Yardbird Suite (Savoy, 1957)

With Mark Murphy

• 1975 Mark Murphy Sings
  


• 1992 Stolen...And Other Moments
  


• 1998 Jazz Standards
  


• 1999 Songbook
  

With Joe Roland

• 
  Joltin' Joe Roland (Savoy, 1955)

With others

• 1954 Skin Deep (Norgran)


• 1956 Bernie's Tunes, Bernard Peiffer
  


• 1956 Special Delivery, Janet Brace


• 1956 The Four Most, Jimmy Raney
  


• 1956 The Modern Art of Jazz by Mat Mathews, Mat Mathews
  


• 1957 For Lady, Webster Young (Prestige)


• 1963 The Groovy Sound of Music, Gary Burton
  


• 1965 Alive!, Carmen McRae
  


• 1973 Interactions, Chuck Wayne
  


• 1979 Chasin' the Bird, Helen Merrill (EmArcy)


• 1992 Last Recordings: Rare and Unreleased, Artie Shaw
  


• 1993 Horn of Plenty, Warren Vache
  


• 1998 My Shining Hour, Gail Wynters (Naxos)


• 1999 Trav'lin' Light/Merely Marvelous, Jimmy Giuffre
  


• 2000 Blues of Summer, Wycliffe Gordon
  


• 2000 Have Tenor Sax Will Blow/Live at Small's Paradise, King Curtis
  


• 2001 Jaywalkin' , J. R. Monterose
  


• 2003 Soul Eyes: The Mal Waldron Memorial Album, Mal Waldron
  


• 2004 The Complete Whitey Mitchell Sessions, Steve Lacy^[5]
  

References

External links

• Discography at Jazz Disco


• Joe Puma at AllMusic