Ronald Bruner Jr.
Ronald Ray Bruner Jr. (born October 5, 1982) is an American drummer, composer and producer. He has played with hardcore punk/crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies.[1] Bruner was part of the band that received a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album in 2010 for The Stanley Clarke Band.[2]
He is the brother of musician Stephen Lee Bruner, who is better known by his stage name Thundercat. He frequently performs alongside Thundercat, Kamasi Washington, and cousin Terrace Martin as a member of the Los Angeles jazz collective West Coast Get Down.[3] In 2015, he appeared with the collective on Washington's major-label debut album, The Epic.[4]
Discography
As leader
- Triumph (World Galaxy, 2017)
As sideman
Stanley Clarke
- Thunder, as S.M.V., with Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten (2008)
- The Stanley Clarke Band (2010)
George Duke
- Déjà Vu (2010)
- Brazilian Fusion (2013)
Flying Lotus
- You're Dead! (Warp, 2014)
- Flamagra (2019)
Kenny Garrett
- Seeds from the Underground (Mack Avenue, 2012)
- Do Your Dance! (2016)
- Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue, 2021)
Cameron Graves
- Planetary Prince (Mack Avenue, 2017)
Kendrick Lamar
- To Pimp a Butterfly (Top Dawg, 2015)
- Velvet Portraits (Sounds of Crenshaw, 2016)
- 13 (Suicidal, 2013)
- The Epic (Brainfeeder, 2015)
- Harmony of Difference (Young Turks, 2017)
- Heaven and Earth (Young Turks, 2018)
References
- ^ "Suicidal Tendencies: Footage from We the People Festival posted online". Blabbermouth. September 29, 2008. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved June 12, 2010.
- ^ "Grammy Award Results for Ronald Bruner Jr". grammy.com. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
- ^ Hobbs, Thomas (June 26, 2020). "The history of the West Coast Get Down, LA's jazz giants". Dazed. Retrieved January 9, 2023.
- ^ "BIO". Kamasiwashington.com. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
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- Anthony Gallo
- Rocky George
- Dave Hidalgo
- Josh Paul
- Robert Trujillo
- Brooks Wackerman
- Steve Bruner
- Thomas Pridgen
- Eric Moore
- Dave Lombardo
- Suicidal Tendencies
- Join the Army
- How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today
- Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit... Déjà Vu
- Lights...Camera...Revolution!
- The Art of Rebellion
- Still Cyco After All These Years
- Suicidal for Life
- Freedumb
- Free Your Soul and Save My Mind
- 13
- World Gone Mad
- Still Cyco Punk After All These Years
- F.N.G.
- Prime Cuts
- Playlist: The Very Best of Suicidal Tendencies
- No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family
- コレクション (Collection)
- "Institutionalized"
- "Trip at the Brain"
- "You Can't Bring Me Down"
- "Send Me Your Money"
- "Nobody Hears"
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- List of band members
- No Mercy
- Beowülf
- Excel
- Uncle Slam
- Los Cycos
- Luicidal
- Clash of the Titans Tour
- Murder in the Front Row
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