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]

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 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

George Duke

  • Déjà Vu (2010)
  • Brazilian Fusion (2013)

Flying Lotus

Kenny Garrett

Cameron Graves

  • Planetary Prince (Mack Avenue, 2017)

Kendrick Lamar

Terrace Martin

Suicidal Tendencies

  • 13 (Suicidal, 2013)

Kamasi Washington

References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ "Grammy Award Results for Ronald Bruner Jr". grammy.com. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  3. ↑ Hobbs, Thomas (June 26, 2020). "The history of the West Coast Get Down, LA's jazz giants". Dazed. Retrieved January 9, 2023.
  4. ↑ "BIO". Kamasiwashington.com. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
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