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Joe Puma

Joe Puma is credited on 437 releases across 107 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1954–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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437

Pressings credited

107

Albums

8

Decades active

17

In collections

Biography

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. He acted as a session musician for many jazz musicians during 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; 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.

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Credited work

437 releases · 107 albums · active 1954–2026

  • Performance · 585
  • Other credits · 2
  • Engineering · 1

Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · RCA Studios, New York · Basement Recording Studio, Brooklyn, N.Y. · Macdonald Studio

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