Ronald Bruner Jr. Explained

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)

Terrace Martin

Velvet Portraits (Sounds of Crenshaw, 2016)

Suicidal Tendencies

13 (Suicidal, 2013)

Kamasi Washington

The Epic (Brainfeeder, 2015)
Harmony of Difference (Young Turks, 2017)
Heaven and Earth (Young Turks, 2018)

Notes and References

Web site: Suicidal Tendencies: Footage from We the People Festival posted online. September 29, 2008. Blabbermouth. June 12, 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110606223229/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=105821. June 6, 2011.
Web site: Grammy Award Results for Ronald Bruner Jr. . grammy.com . February 27, 2020.
Web site: Hobbs . Thomas . The history of the West Coast Get Down, LA’s jazz giants . Dazed . January 9, 2023 . en . June 26, 2020.
Web site: BIO. Kamasiwashington.com. January 30, 2020.