Bunny Brunel Explained

Bunny Brunel
Birth Date:	2 March 1950^[1] ^[2]
Birth Place:	Nice, France
Genre:	Jazz, jazz fusion
Occupation:	Musician
Instrument:	Bass guitar
Years Active:	1970–present
Current Member Of:	CAB

Bernard "Bunny" Brunel is a French-American bass guitarist who has played with Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne Shorter. He is a founding member of the jazz fusion band CAB and is involved in musical instrument design and film and television scoring.^[3] He was a bass and music teacher for jazz bass player Kyle Eastwood.^[4]

Discography

As leader

• Touch (Warner Bros., 1979)
• Ivanhoe (Inner City, 1982)
• Momentum (America, 1989)
• Dedication (Musidisc, 1992)
• For You to Play (Media 7, 1994)
• Bunny Brunel's L.A. Zoo (Tone Center, 1998)
• Led Boots (Mascot, 2000)
• Cafe Au Lait (Brunel Music, 2004)
• Touch (Nikaia, 2006)
• Invent Your Future (Nikaia, 2015)

With CAB

• CAB (Tone Center, 2000)
• CAB 2 (Tone Center, 2000)
• Live (2002)
• CAB 4 (Favored Nations, 2003)
• Theatre de Marionnettes (2009)
• Live On Sunset (Nikaia, 2011)
• "Fusion Holidays", featuring Roman Miroshnichenko, (Nikaia, 2022).

As sideman

With Allen Vizzutti

• Allen Vizzutti (Headfirst, 1981)
• Skyrocket (Overseas, 1981)
• Olympic Jazz Series (Domo, 1999)

With others

• Jan Akkerman, Jan Akkerman 3 (Atlantic, 1979)
• Sandeep Chowta, Matters of the Heart (Sony 2013)
• Chick Corea, Secret Agent (1978)
• Chick Corea, Tap Step (Warner Bros., 1980)
• Christine Delaroche, Au Feminin (Eurodisc, 1978)
• Osamu Kitajima, Dragon King (Arista, 1981)
• Didier Lockwood, Lockwood (1975)
• Kathi McDonald, Above & Beyond (Merrimack, 1999)
• Gayle Moran, I Loved You Then...I Love You Now (Warner Bros., 1979)
• Georges Moustaki, Live (Polydor, 1975)
• Georges Moustaki, Olympia (Polydor, 1978)
• Claude Nougaro, Pacifique (WEA, 1998)
• Michel Polnareff, Ze Tour (Enough/Universal 2007)
• Kazumi Watanabe, Kilowatt (Gramavision, 1989)

External links

• Official site
• Discussion with Bunny Brunel

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wynn . Ron . Bunny Brunel . AllMusic . April 18, 2015.
2. Web site: Bunny Brunel @ All About Jazz . All About Jazz . April 18, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150411061742/http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/bunnybrunel . April 11, 2015 . dead .
3. Web site: C.A.B. With Bunny Brunel And Tony MacAlpine Live At The Baked Potato . All About Jazz . May 29, 2014 . September 4, 2014.
4. Web site: Bassist-Composer Kyle Eastwood Channels His Earliest Jazz Influences on the View from Here – March 12, 2013.