Ronald Bruner Jr.
Ronald Ray Bruner Jr. (born October 5, 1982) is an American jazz 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] In 2015, he appeared on Kamasi Washington's debut recording as a leader, The Epic.[3]
He is the brother of musician Stephen Lee Bruner, who is better known by his stage name Thundercat.
Discography[]
As leader[]
- Triumph (World Galaxy, 2017)
As sideman[]
- Thunder, as S.M.V., with Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten (2008)
- The Stanley Clarke Band (2010)
- Up (2014)
- Déjà Vu (2010)
- Brazilian Fusion (2013)
- You're Dead! (Warp, 2014)
- Flamagra (2019)
- Seeds from the Underground (Mack Avenue, 2012)
- Do Your Dance! (2016)
Cameron Graves
- Planetary Prince (Mack Avenue, 2017)
- To Pimp a Butterfly (Top Dawg, 2015)
- Velvet Portraits (Sounds of Crenshaw, 2016)
Suicidal Tendancies
- 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. 29 September 2008. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2010.
- ^ "Grammy Award Results for Ronald Bruner Jr". grammy.com. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- ^ "BIO". Kamasiwashington.com. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
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- American heavy metal drummers
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