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Ronald Ray Bruner Jr. (born October 5, 1982) is an American drummer, composer and producer. He has played with hardcore punk/crossover thrash band ... Tendencies. Bruner was part of the band that received a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album in 2010 for The Stanley Clarke Band.

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. In 2015, he appeared with the collective on Washington's major-label debut album, The Epic.

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

Terrace Martin

  • Velvet Portraits (Sounds of Crenshaw, 2016)

... Tendencies

Kamasi Washington

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