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Artie Shaw And His Gramercy Five Herbie Mann Quartet Louie Bellson Orchestra The Don Elliott Quintet Joe Puma Sextet Dick Hyman And His Quintet New York Quartet The Joe Puma Quintet The Vinnie Burke All-Stars The Joe Puma Trio The Joe Puma Quartet Ralph Sharon Sextet The Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet New York Jazz Ensemble Joe Roland, His Vibes & His Boppin' Strings Ralph Sharon's All-Star Sextet

American jazz guitarist, born: August 13, 1927 in Bronx, NY, died May 31, 2000 in New York, NY.
Puma played with Joe Roland (first professional job, 1949-1950), Louie Bellson, Artie Shaw, Herbie Mann, Mat Mathews, Chris Connor, Paul Quinichette, Morgana King, Bobby Hackett, Gary Burton, Carmen McRae, Chuck Wayne, among others. He recorded as a leader from 1954 through the 1990s on over a dozen albums.
He also worked as a recording engineer at Select Sound Studio in upstate New York.

ALBUMS

The Jazz Guitar Of Joe Puma

2007, CD, Comp, Fresh Sound Records

Warren Vaché With Joe Puma, Murray Wall And Eddie Locke

What Is There To Say?

2000, CD, Album, Nagel Heyer Records

It's A Blue World

1999, CD, Album, Euphoria (2)

Chuck Wayne / Joe Puma

1990, CD, RE, Choice (7)

Joe Puma, Hod O'Brien, Red Mitchell

Carol Sloane with Joe Puma

Carol Sloane Live

Herbie Mann With Urbie Green, Joe Wilder, Hank Jones, Joe Puma, Oscar Pettiford

Salute To The Flute

Chuck Wayne / Joe Puma

Like Tweet - Jazz Versions Of Authentic Bird Calls

Noah's Ark (Redwinged Blackbird) / Panic In The Birdcage

Jimmy Raney, Chuck Wayne, Joe Puma, Dick Garcia

The Fourmost Guitars

Jimmy Jones (3), Jimmy Raney, George Duvivier, Jo Jones, Joe Puma, Roy Haynes

The Rodgers and Hart Song Book

Six Classic Albums Plus Bonus Tracks

4xCD, Comp, Real Gone

Chris Connor Featuring Kai Winding, J. J. Johnson*, Ralph Sharon, Herbie Mann, Joe Puma, Osie Johnson, Milt Hinton

Joe Puma And Scott Mills

Love In Spain - Joe Puma & Scott Mills: Classical Guitarists

Dick Hyman And His Quintet

Strictly Organ-ic!

New York Quartet

Music For Suburban Living

The Vinnie Burke All-Stars

The Vinnie Burke All-Stars

Artie Shaw And His Gramercy Five

The Pied Piper Theme / Dancing In The Dark

1955, 7", EP, Columbia,

The Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet

The Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet

Herbie Mann Quartet

Flamingo, Volume 2

Artie Shaw And His Gramercy Five

Artie Shaw And His Gramercy Five (Album #4)

Artie Shaw And His Gramercy Five

Artie Shaw And His Gramercy Five (Album #3)

1954, LP, Album, Mono, Clef Records,

The Don Elliott Quintet

The Don Elliott Quintet

The Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet

The Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet

LP, Album, Bethlehem Records

APPEARANCES +

The Vinnie Burke All Stars And His String Jazz Quartet

2021, CD, Album, Comp, Fresh Sound Records

Nina Simone, Chris Connor, Carmen McRae

Nina Simone And Her Friends An Intimate Variety Of Vocal Charm

Rose Hardaway, Ada Lee

It’s Time For Rose Hardaway / Ada Lee Comes On!

2019, CD, Comp, RM, Fresh Sound Records

Drums - Milestones Of Jazz Legends

2017, 10xCD, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Documents, The Intense Media,

Bop/Afro-Cuban Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Big Band/Hard Bop

Something's Coming! - The Groovy Sound Of Music - The Time Machine

2016, 2xCD, Comp, RM, BGO Records,

Latin Fire / In Indigo / The Volcanic / Featuring Al Cohn

2015, 2xCD, Comp, RM, Malanga Music

The Kirby Stone Four

Guys & Dolls (Like Today) / The Playboy Club

2015, CD, Comp, Él

Earl Bostic, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Joe Pass

Complete Quintet Recordings

Jazz Guitar Ultimate Collection Vol. 1

2014, 10xCD, Comp, Mono + Box, The Intense Media,

Cool Jazz/Bop/Post Bop/Gypsy Jazz/Swing/Bossa Nova/Latin Jazz/Hard Bop/Modal/Big Band

New Jazz Conceptions

The Wizard Of The Strings

2013, CD, Album, Comp, Jasmine Records

Bernard Peiffer

2012, 2xCD, Comp, Universal

Eight Classic Albums

Featuring Al Cohn + In Indigo

2011, CD, Comp, RM, Fresh Sound Records

New York Jazz Quartet + Music For Suburban Living

2011, CD, Album, Comp, RE, RM, 2 L, Solar Records (4)

The Last Recordings Vol 2, Final Sessions 1954

2009, 2xCD, Comp, Mono, RE, RM, Nimbus Records, Nimbus Records, Nimbus Records

Artie Shaw And His Gramercy 5*

Six Star Treats (The Complete Commercially Released Recordings)

The Sideman Years

2007, CD, Comp, Fresh Sound Records,

2007, CD, Album, Comp, JazzCat

Squeeze Me • The Jazz And Swing Accordion Story

2006, 4xCD, Comp, RM + Box, Proper Records (2),

Hard Bop/Swing/Bop

Eddie Bert Quartet & Quintet*

2006, 2xCD, Comp, Fresh Sound Records

2006, CD, Comp, ZYX Music,

The Most Relaxing Jazz Guitar Music In The Universe

2005, 2xCD, Comp, Denon

Giants Of Jazz ~ Guitar

2004, CD, Comp, Savoy Jazz, Savoy Jazz

2004, 4x CD, All Media,

The Complete Whitey Mitchell Sessions

Early Years 1954-1956

2003, CD, Comp, RM, Savoy Jazz

Highlights From Artie Shaw: Self Portrait

2001, CD, Comp, Smplr, Bluebird (3), BMG,

2001, CD, Comp, Fresh Sound Records

2001, 5xCD, RM + Box, Comp, BMG, Bluebird (3),

Have Tenor Sax, Will Blow/Live At Small's Paradise

2000, CD, Album, Comp, Ltd, RM, Collectables,

Rock & Roll/Rhythm & Blues

Looking Out / Jazz Bass Baroque

1999, CD, Comp, RM, Wave (4),

Jimmy Giuffre / Mabel Mercer

Travlin' Light / Merely Marvelous

1999, CD, Comp, Collectables,

My Shining Hour

1998, CD, Album, Naxos Jazz

Legends Of Ukulele

1998, CD, Comp, Rhino Records (2),

The Gentle Art Of Love

Stolen And Other Moments

1997, 2xCD, Comp, 32 Jazz,

Il Flauto Nel Jazz

1995, CD, Comp, Musica Jazz, Fantasy

'S Paradise: The Gershwin Songbook (The Instrumentals)

1994, CD, Album, Muse Records

1994, CD, Album, Muse Records

Soul-Jazz/Vocal

A Jazz Date With Chris Connor / Chris Craft

More Last Recordings The Final Sessions

A Jazz Valentine: In The Mood For Love

The Last Recordings Rare & Unreleased

1992, 2xCD, Comp, Limelight, MusicMasters Jazz

Herbie Mann Plays

Various Featuring Milt Hinton, Hank Jones, Zoot Sims, Oscar Pettiford, Al Cohn

The Modern Art Of Jazz

1991, CD, Comp, Biograph

The Last Recordings Rare & Unreleased

Herbie Mann, Bobby Jaspar, Seldon Powell, Frank Wess

Flutin' The Bird ... Bird Lives!

Out Of This World

1984, LP, Comp, Affinity

Dr. Dirty In Pixieland

1982, LP, Album, Gemsbok

The Sounds Of The Season

1981, 7", Gametime (2)

Looking Through The Eyes Of Love

In Memory Of Charlie Christian

1980, LP, Album, Ode Records

Chasin' The Bird

Spade Brigade Featuring The Ace Of Spades

I'll Remember Suzanne

1979, LP, Album, Inner City Records

Early Mann - The Bethlehem Years, Volume 1

The Finest Of Chris Connor

Milestone Twofers

1973, 2xLP, Comp, Milestone (4), Milestone (4)

Milestone Twofers

1973, 2x Vinyl,

Big Band/Bossa Nova/Contemporary Jazz/Hard Bop

Let Me Tell You

Music Minus One

Volume 9 – The Song Is You – A Rhythm Background Record For Any Musician Or Vocalist

Prestige In Jazz

Woman Talk (Live At The Village Gate)

The Groovy Sound Of Music

The Best Of Herbie Mann

1964, LP, Album, Mono, Epic

The Kirby Stone Four

Frank Loesser's Broadway Hit Guys & Dolls (Like Today)

1962, Vinyl Gatefold,

Who's Who In The Swinging Sixties

Laurence Harvey

This Is My Beloved

Easy Listening/Cool Jazz

Have Tenor Sax, Will Blow

1961, 7", EP, Mono, London Records, London American Recordings, London Atlantic

1961, 7", EP, Karusell

Great Jazz Artists Play Compositions Of Harold Arlen

Sir Charles Thompson

Merely Marvelous

Tony Barra And Quintette

Red White And The Blues

Chris Connor Meets J And Kai

1959, 7", EP, Parlophone

Have Tenor Sax, Will Blow

The Magic Ukulele Of Roy Smeck, Wizard Of The Strings

Swings Music From Whoop-Up

Modern Jazz Festival

1958, LP, Harmony (4),

Just For Variety - Bethlehem's Best Volume Three

1958, LP, Album, Comp, Mono, Bethlehem Records, Bethlehem Records,

Marty Napoleon And His Music*

Marty Napoleon And His Music

1958, LP, Stere-O-Craft

A Jazz Date With Chris Connor

Cool Jazz/Vocal

The Bob Prince Quintet

Dancing With Oh Captain!

Compendium Of Jazz #2

1957, LP, Comp, Mono, Verve Records,

1957, 7", Prestige

Sahib Shihab / Herbie Mann

The Jazz We Heard Last Summer

Folk, Pops 'N Jazz Sampler

The Ralph Sharon Sextet*

Around The World In Jazz

New York Jazz Quartet*

New York Jazz Quartet

Herbie Mann / Bobby Jaspar

Salute To The Flute

New York Jazz Quartet*

New York Jazz Quartet Goes Native

Chris Connor Sings The George Gershwin Almanac Of Song

Sultry Serenade

Hard Bop/Cool Jazz

Sue & Ralph Sharon

4 French Horns Plus Rhythm

Herbie Mann And Bobby Jaspar

1956, 7", EP, Bethlehem Records

1956, 7", EP, Mono, Bethlehem Records

Creed Taylor Presents Know Your Jazz No.3 - The Brass Section

1956, 7", EP, Comp, Mono, His Master's Voice

Joltin' Joe Roland

Whitey Mitchell Sextette

Whitey Mitchell Sextette

A Musical Offering By Don Elliott

Herbie Mann And Orchestra*

Love And The Weather

Candido Featuring Al Cohn

Bernard Peiffer

Special Delivery

Bethlehem's Best

1956, 3x Vinyl,

Swing/Cool Jazz/Vocal

Sextette/Quintette

Big Band/Cool Jazz/Vocal

The Modern Art Of Jazz By Mat Mathews

1955, 7", EP, Mono, Bethlehem Records

Louis Bellson And His Orchestra*

Cool Jazz/Post Bop

The Amazing Artistry Of Louis Bellson

Ralph Sharon's All-Star Sextet

Joe Roland Symfonet*

1954, 7", EP, Savoy Records

Joe Roland Symfonet* / Joe Roland Quartet

Joe Roland Quartet And Symfonet

1954, 10", Savoy Records

Joe Puma Quintet*

Jazz Society-East Coast Jazz No.3

1954, 10", Mono, London Records

The Exciting Mr. Bellson And His Big Band

Louis Bellson And His Orchestra*

For Europeans Only / Loris

The Exciting Mr. Bellson (And His Big Band)

The Amazing Artistry Of Louis Bellson

Joe Roland, His Vibes & His Boppin' Strings

Half-Nelson / Sally Is Gone

Jazz For Dancing

LP, Comp, Philips

2xLP, Comp, Monkey Records (4)

Thank You Very Much

LP, Album, Not On Label (Dick Lobdell Self-released),

Reel, 4tr Stereo, Comp, 6'', MPS Records

Later Artie Shaw, Volume 7 - June 1954

LP, Comp, Mono, Ajazz Records

7", EP, Parlophone

Cass, Album, Metronomo Edizioni

Special Delivery

LP, Album, Mono, Festival Record Club

Music Minus One

Volume 9 – The Song Is You – A Rhythm Background Record For Any Musician Or Vocalist

LP, Bla, Music Minus One

Modern Jazz Festival

LP, Comp, Jazztone (2)

CD, Album, Ltd, RE, RM, Original Jazz Classics, Prestige

Modern Jazz Festival

Blues Of Summer

2000, CD, Album, Nagel Heyer Records, Nagel Heyer Records,

1995, CD, Comp, Emporio,

The Jazz Box - A Four Compact Disc Collection Of Jazz Greats

1995, 4xCD, Comp, Emporio,

1964, LP, Comp, Allegro Records,

Soul-Jazz/Swing/Cool Jazz