Joe Puma

**fasstrack** · 04-18-2017, 10:04 PM

Don't sleep on this guy. He's as good as it gets.

**fasstrack** · 04-19-2017, 08:47 AM

Tsk, tsk tsk.

Guess it's 'what have you done for me lately'.

Your loss...

**mrcee** · 04-19-2017, 08:54 AM

I'm hip to Joe Puma since I was a kid. I can't say that I've listened to as much of him as I should have though.
Thanks for mentioning him.

**TOMMO** · 04-19-2017, 08:56 AM

I have a boxset of "classic" jazz guitar albums that contains his album "East Coast Jazz 3" - great stuff from a player who's been flying under the radar

**lawson-stone** · 04-19-2017, 09:01 AM

I've known the name and probably heard one track from some compilation. This first album posted is wonderful. I love his tone, he plays both clean and sweet. I need to listen to more.

Is he still an active player?

**mr. beaumont** · 04-19-2017, 09:37 AM

First heard him on Bobby Jaspar''s "flute souflee." Great classic jazz record.

**mrcee** · 04-19-2017, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by lawson-stone

I've known the name and probably heard one track from some compilation. This first album posted is wonderful. I love his tone, he plays both clean and sweet. I need to listen to more.

Is he still an active player?

I believe that he passed away in 2000.

**goldenwave77** · 04-19-2017, 10:25 AM

He didn't live to see this new century.

When I got my driver's license back in 1976-7, I was able to see him at a club in suburban NYC. (Same club also hosted Sonny Fortune. Cover was $5 or so. A place down the block made their own ice cream for about $1.25/cone. It was a good, cheap date.)

Great player. I think he broke in with Artie Shaw.

**bako** · 04-19-2017, 10:50 AM

I first heard him on this record which I took out from the Lincoln Center Library.
It's been awhile since that library had records and a long while since I thought of him.
Thanks for the reminder.

**wintermoon** · 04-19-2017, 11:16 AM

when I used to haunt the old hole in the wall record shops, if I found a record w/a player I liked I sought out everything he played on in a small group setting.
he's on several small record labels like Jubilee, Dawn, Coral, etc...

**fasstrack** · 04-19-2017, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by lawson-stone

Is he still an active player?

Passed away in 2000...

**fasstrack** · 04-19-2017, 10:01 PM

Originally Posted by goldenwave77

I think he broke in with Artie Shaw.

Well, he's on the Gramercy Five recordings (so, BTW, is Jimmy Raney)...

**Cunamara** · 04-19-2017, 10:55 PM

What was up with that guitar? Homemade?

**neatomic** · 04-20-2017, 12:59 AM

yes joe made that guitar...

here's good past thread on puma

Joe puma?

cheers

**jameslovestal** · 04-20-2017, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by mrcee

I'm hip to Joe Puma since I was a kid. I can't say that I've listened to as much of him as I should have though.
Thanks for mentioning him.

Same here. I'll have to see if any of his recordings are available. Recordings I knew about, say 20 years ago from many fine guitar players like Puma were not available back then, but since have been re-issued. So I need to follow up and get them.

So yea, I'm glad this thread was created as well.