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Don't sleep on this guy. He's as good as it gets.
Last edited by fasstrack; 04-18-2017 at 11:18 PM.
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04-18-2017 10:04 PM
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Tsk, tsk tsk.
Guess it's 'what have you done for me lately'.
Your loss...
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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.
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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
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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?
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First heard him on Bobby Jaspar''s "flute souflee." Great classic jazz record.
Last edited by mr. beaumont; 04-19-2017 at 10:14 PM.
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I believe that he passed away in 2000.
Originally Posted by lawson-stone
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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.
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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.
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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...
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Passed away in 2000... Originally Posted by lawson-stone
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Well, he's on the Gramercy Five recordings (so, BTW, is Jimmy Raney)... Originally Posted by goldenwave77
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What was up with that guitar? Homemade?
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yes joe made that guitar...
here's good past thread on puma
Joe puma?
cheers
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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. Originally Posted by mrcee
So yea, I'm glad this thread was created as well.
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LOL! I asked the same question on that thread! Jeez, watta doof! Originally Posted by neatomic
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I haven't heard that much of Joe Puma, but I like what I've heard. Here's a track of him playing with a young Bill Evans as a sideman:
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I just bought the last available copy of this book by Joe Puma, hopefully I'll be able to put it to practical use.
Carry me Bach: Themes and variations on classical and jazz themes for guitar solo - Amazon.com
I have his book, Jazz Encounters, which is very good. I first learned of him via his duo album with Chuck Wayne, Interactions.
This is amusing, when jazz musicians say they've been influenced by Bird, they don't usually mean the feathered variety:
Like Tweet: Jazz Versions of Authentic Bird Calls - Amazon.com
Ah, it's on the Internet Archive website!
Like Tweet - Jazz Versions Of Authentic Bird Calls by Joe Puma - Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Like Tweet was some stupid gimmick commercial album. I guess he was trying to be a Vinny Bell or something. LOL. Originally Posted by Mick-7
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Does anyone here have a copy of the Carol Sloane/Joe Puma Live album, originally released on Baybridge Records in 1984?
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I met Joe back at the 5 Town's Guitar show on LI back in the early 1990's. He was very down to earth and a wonderful to talk to. I will never forget that, and he was just walking around like many. He knew a lot for folks and played wonderful guitar. You don't play with Chuck Wayne unless you be one stellar player of the highest caliber. He was friend of Jimmy D'aquisto too.
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I remember watching him play in a duo with Chuck Wayne around 1973. Originally Posted by fasstrack
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I saw Joe Puma many times playing with Chuck Wayne at Strykers on the west side of NYC in the 1970's. One NYE show at that venue had Chuck and Joe playing with Chet Baker and Lee Konitz. Boy was that great!
I feel blessed to have witnessed the work of so many masters of the jazz genre.
In fact, add players like Segovia, Albert King and EVH and I feel blessed to have witnessed the work of so many masters of any genre. The downside of all that witnessing is that I am now a senior citizen who will be joining all of those masters sooner than I might like. Yikes!
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I told a few stories about meeting Joe Puma in the other thread on him, so I won;t repeat them.
He could be kind of dark sometimes with that sense of humor he had. At the benefit they had for Atilla Zoller, he said to a friend of mine, "What if he's he's not really dying and this is all for nothing?"
One of my teachers tried to do a lot of favors for him, and JP turned on him for no reason, and really made my teacher feel bad. Tears were streaming out of his eyes when he told me about it. He attributed JP's outburst to a kind of bitterness JP had, because he never became a "star". Who knows?
The day Puma died, I told my teacher about it, and all he said was, "I've gotta try and get my hands on his guitar."
He had some physical problem with his back or shoulders, and he made that guitar for himself at Jimmy D'AQ's shop to make it easier for him to play.
They only made one album of the duo Puma had with Chuck Wayne called "Interactions". It's excellent.
They made another album with the chick singer from Gregory's, whom he used to treat like dirt. There was a reason why they never had a Memorial for him at St. Peter's .....
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If you do some digging you can find him on some semi obscure records like the NY Quartet stuff.
He seemed to be in a lot of bands w cats like Mat Mathews, Red and Whitey Mitchell and Herbie Mann on semi obscure labels Coral, ABC Paramount, Jubilee, Elektra etc.
Well, I'll say one thing for Herbie, he usually surrounded himself w great musicians,
and had good taste in guitar players like Puma, Chuck Wayne and my favorite of the bunch, Dick Garcia.
A lot of these records were really hard to
find back in the day and Joe's own Wild Kitten on Dawn, another obscure label, has always been a rare one, though it's recently been reissued on lp, as was DG's Dawn lp, Message from Garcia. But as w anything it's all on ebay or discogs nowadays, no more flipping through countless milk crates in record stores anymore, though I kinda miss those days....
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