Pam Bruner & Thundercat — “Christine” (ft. Harold Johnson, Asia McGlover & Ron Bruner Sr.) The Bruner family is responsible for a lot of unique changes in … The most Bruner families were found in the USA in 1880. He was half-prone on a couch in the bus’s back corner, in skinny black jeans and a T-shirt proclaiming, in bumper-stickerish terms, his love of a particular excretory function; his nails were painted eggplant purple. But like his 2013 album “Apocalypse” — informed by the drug-related death of a close friend, the jazz pianist Austin Peralta — “It Is What It Is” finds Bruner once again working through personal loss. Then he made “It Is What It Is,” an album that’s ultimately less about overcoming uncertainty, fear, decay and heartbreak as it is about learning to live with those things as constants — conditions of staying alive. His nimble, syncopated, groove-heavy basslines had been noticed on albums by Erykah Badu, Sa-Ra, Soaring Lotus, as well as others. We use cookies on this site to enhance the experience. “Nobody wants to hear what you have to say. Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner rose during the first decade of the new millennium as the go-to bassist for a multitude of forward-looking artists traversing electric jazz, punk, R&B, and hip-hop. It just goes to show you — there’s that audience out there, that’s waiting for something really good.”. That’s it,” Bruner said. “Cat. It was supposed to kick off in San Francisco on October 27. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) I was faced with a choice — to either follow suit or figure it out. (The latest, “It Is What It Is,” is out April 3.) I’ll never forget, we had a gig one time, and we were supposed to wear all black. Badu may have given Bruner the courage to step forward as a frontman, but according to Ellison, he’d always been Thundercat, whether he knew it or not. Along with the involvements with previous artists, Thundercat draws inspiration from jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, Mary Lou Williams and Ron Carter. [5], Bruner has been described as being a major contributor to and "at the creative epicenter" of Kendrick Lamar's critically acclaimed album To Pimp a Butterfly.[6]. His nimble, syncopated, groove-heavy basslines have propelled songs by Sa-Ra, Erykah Badu, Flying Lotus, and Kendrick Lamar, some of which have also featured his gentle and sweet vocals. That lifelong obsession with music started with his family. The Bruner family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. His nimble, syncopated, groove-heavy basslines have propelled songs by Sa-Ra, Erykah Badu, Flying Lotus, an…. His voice became quiet; the bus’s air conditioning seemed suddenly loud. Every so often, to keep from losing his place in the game, Bruner would stretch out a silver-socked toe and wake the console from sleep mode by nudging the stick of his controller, which lay at the far end of the couch, next to an Aldi shopping bag overflowing with crumpled laundry, including a silver Lurex cargo vest designed by Virgil Abloh for Louis Vuitton. This was about 37% of all the recorded Bruner's in the USA. His father is Ronald Sr., a veteran drummer who played with The Temptations, Gladys Knight and The Supremes. Snoop Dogg — whose nickname for the fresh-faced Bruner was “Baby Bass”— once cut short a Bruner bass solo during a show, grumbling, “Ain’t nobody tell you to play all that.”, “Raphael Saadiq once told me, ‘Man, play the record,’” Bruner said, laughing. All play multiple instruments: Ronald Jr.-Drums Stephen "THUNDERCAT" Bruner- Bass Jameel Bruner - Keyboards Like most of us, Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner has had a weird 2020. He rose to fame performing with acts like Suicidal Tendencies, meanwhile gaining attention […] On this day in 2010, Kanye drops My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.. Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner rose during the first decade of the new millennium as the go-to bassist for a multitude of forward-looking artists traversing electric jazz, punk, R&B, and hip-hop. There was also the death of the rapper Nipsey Hussle, who was shot and killed in South Los Angeles, not far from where Bruner’s family lives. “Things became a bit realer to me.”. BADBADNOTGOOD & Flying Lotus) - 'King of the Hill, "Thundercat - 'Black Qualls (feat. [14], Thundercat identifies as a Christian, and incorporates many of the religion's themes in some of his music. His new album, “It Is What It Is,” is a vivid portrait of living with uncertainty and grief. Snoop Dogg once cut a Bruner bass solo short during a show, grumbling, “Ain’t nobody tell you to play all that.”, “I think the existential dread set in when Mac disappeared,” Bruner said. “He’s always been a completely unique individual. Tonight, two of his sons are up for Grammys: bassist Thundercat (a.k.a. OAKLAND, Calif. — In a few hours, Stephen Bruner, the singer and bassist professionally known as Thundercat, had a sold-out show to play at the Fox Theater, a former 1920s movie palace on Telegraph Avenue. Eventually Washington acquired a 1982 Ford Mustang; the hatchback didn’t close, and parts of the interior were held together with duct tape. It was good advice to give a bass player; Bruner said he didn’t begin to think of himself as something more than that until the mid-2000s. [7], In October 2018, Thundercat premiered the song "King of the Hill" from his then upcoming album It Is What It Is. He quit drinking for a while. “They almost didn’t have to worry about chicks — because we were nerds.”. [10] Another single, "Dragonball Durag", was released on February 17. Both Thundercat and the younger Bruner majorly contributed to Kamasi Washington’s 2015 three-disc magnum opus, The Epic, a Top #3 Billboard Jazz project that was near universally named one of the Best Albums of 2015. Washington and Bruner had met as children, when their fathers played together in what Washington called a “gospel-fusion band.”, “Stephen was always who he is, way before it was cool to be that way,” Washington said. Jimetta hosts the initimitable Bruner family of Ronald Bruner Sr.(Strange Jazz Universe), Ronald Bruner Jr.(new album TRIUMPH out March 3rd), Jameel ‘Kintaro’ Bruner & Stephen THUNDERCAT Bruner (new album DRUNK imminent on Brainfeeder) for an inspired chat and kick off of our new FAMILY VALUES series from our home base Bedrock LA this week. I. “He was always the craziest-dressed person in the room,” Ellison said. Born into a family of musicians, Bruner began playing the bass at an early age: by 15 he had a minor hit in Germany as a member of the boy band No Curfew. [8][9] The second single, "Black Qualls" featuring Steve Lacy, Steve Arrington, and Childish Gambino was released on January 16. Through this, he is frequently able to renew elements from old soul, funk, and jazz albums. By the early 2000s Bruner was touring the world as a sideman, first as a member of what he called “a little German-signed multicultural pop group” called No Curfew, which released one album on Polydor in 2001; the following year, Bruner joined the L.A. thrash-punk stalwarts Suicidal Tendencies, where his breakneck-speed bass playing was put to better use. It’s the kind of cultural product that will inevitably feel eerily right-on-time when it drops amid the chaos unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic. First coming to prominence as a member of crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies, he has since released four solo studio albums and is noted for his work with producer Flying Lotus and his appearance on Kendrick Lamar's critically acclaimed 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly. Thundercat, also known as Stephen Bruner originally, is an American bass player that does a range of different genres. 1K likes. Somewhere in there was a latent superstar.”. I came to pick him up, and he was like, ‘Man, I don’t think I have any black pants.’ I was like, ‘You’ve got to have a pair of black pants.’ He went in his closet. [12] Thundercat dedicated the album to friend and frequent collaborator, Mac Miller. During his career he has managed to release two solo albums, and many people may know him for his work with Flying Lotus. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Thundercat had the good fortune to be raised in a musical family. Available with an Apple Music subscription. Miller, Bruner said, was the person in his life “who I would call when stuff got weird. Not every employer whose road band Bruner passed through was interested in the full Thundercat experience. He was in a serious relationship — “I was on the edge of getting married”— which went south not long after Miller died. In September 2018, the rapper Mac Miller died of an accidental drug overdose. I had to cry, a lot.”. “They didn’t have to worry if we were out trolling and being idiots,” Bruner said. Born Stephen Lee Bruner, Thundercat grew up in a family of musicians. “I had to let the pain in. [11] It Is What It Is released on April 3, 2020 and was met with critical acclaim. A year later he joined his brother Ronald Jr. as a member of the Los Angeles punk band Suicidal Tendencies, replacing former bass player Josh Paul. Born Stephen Bruner, Thundercat has become an integral part of the contemporary jazz scene that’s sprouted in Los Angeles, a city many see wrapped in a romantic past. Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner rose during the first decade of the new millennium as the go-to bassist for a multitude of forward-looking artists traversing electric jazz, punk, R&B, and hip-hop. Stephen Lee Bruner (born October 19, 1984),[2] better known by his stage name Thundercat, is an American bassist, singer and songwriter from Los Angeles, California. Stephen Lee Bruner (born October 19, 1984), better known by his stage name Thundercat, is an American bassist, singer and songwriter from Los Angeles, California.First coming to prominence as a member of crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies, he has since released four solo studio albums and is noted for his work with producer Flying Lotus and his appearance on Kendrick … The bassist, though, remains keenly aware of the roles that his family—both his biological and chosen affiliates—have played in forging the unique sound. Last week, the singer-songwriter Mia Doi Todd told us why she's grateful for the bassist, producer and singer Stephen Lee Bruner, who performs as Thundercat. It’s funky and funny, but its funk and fun feel more hard-won than ever — the title, Bruner said, refers less to resignation than to acceptance. Another 145 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1531, 1745, 1410, 1380, 1380, 1571, 1840 and 1915 are included under the topic Early Bruner History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. In May of that year, Bruner appeared live with Red Hot Chili Peppers to play additional bass on their song "Go Robot" at iHeartRadio's release party for the band's 2016 album The Getaway. “From the ’70s to the ’80s, those guys were Top 40 radio darlings,” McDonald said. Bleep", "Thundercat (feat. 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In 2016, Bruner revealed to XXL that he is working on a new album with Flying Lotus as a main contributor. Stephen Bruner), 30, not only received a nod for his single "These … His father, Ronald Bruner, Sr., is an accomplished drummer who has performed and recorded with an assortment of acts including Diana Ross, the Temptations, and Helen Baylor, and … A screen near the bus’s ceiling displayed a game of Mario Kart, on pause. More than playing bass in her band — she would hold my hand through stuff. “It was insanely horrible,” Bruner said. Since 2011, he’s made four solo albums, always in collaboration with the Los Angeles producer Steven Ellison, better known as Flying Lotus. “Sardine can. The bassist and singer Thundercat’s latest album, “It Is What It Is,” is a meditation on living with loss partly inspired by the death of the musician’s friend Mac Miller. Talk to Mac.” After he died, Bruner said, he found it difficult to write music, or even to pick up a video-game controller. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Bruner families in 1840. In 1840 there were 81 Bruner families living in Pennsylvania. [3] In 2016, Thundercat won a Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Performance for his work on the track "These Walls" from To Pimp a Butterfly. Bruner remembers accompanying him to performances as a child and dozing off during his father’s drum solos. Bruner counts Pastorius as an influence, and said the 1978 song Punk Jazz in particular summed up the entirety of Thundercat’s musical existence—playing with Washington, a family friend … “I had to sit with it,” he said. The next two years saw a return to the recording studio with fellow Brainfeeder artist Flying Lotus, with contributions to the Lotus's Until the Quiet Comes (2012) and You're Dead! Play the record.”. Thundercat - 'Dragonball Durag' (Official Video) And yet, Bruner seems unfazed by the global pandemic taking place outside, or the fact he is about … Bruner's earliest studio album appearances include playing electric bass on Kamasi Washington's Live at 5th Street Dick's and The Proclamation. But it allowed Bruner, Washington and their compatriots to play anywhere in Los Angeles that would have them. Being an ’80s kid from Compton means the 1965 Watts uprising, gang warfare, drugs, the AIDS crisis, and the L.A. riots of 1992 have all left a mark on his DNA — but Stephen Lee Bruner, born within weeks of Dragon Ball’s debut and the beginning of Prince’s Purple Rain tour, has always been more than his surroundings. He became close to the hip-hop production unit Sa-Ra Creative Partners; at their Silver Lake studio/clubhouse, he’d meet artists like Ty Dolla Sign and J Dilla, as well as Erykah Badu, who took him on tour. The Bruner Family Medicine Center Clinic is a busy, full-service family medicine clinic with a diverse patient population. Vinyl LP, CD. Thundercat’s older brother Ronald Bruner, Jr., a Grammy-winning drummer, has played with an amazing list of straight-ahead jazzers such as Roy Hargrove, Stanley Clarke, and Wayne Shorter. The Bruner Brothers. Road cat.”. [15], American musician from Los Angeles, California, "Apocalypse - Thundercat : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards", "Meet Thundercat, the Jazz-Fusion Genius Behind Kendrick Lamar's 'Butterfly, "Thundercat - It Is What It Is. [4], Along with his band duties Bruner is also a session musician, acclaimed for his work on Erykah Badu's New Amerykah (2008) and Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma (2010). Although they were underage — and Bruner is four years younger than Washington — they’d sneak into jazz clubs and other concert venues, first as spectators and then as performers. Somewhere inside the Fox, there was a dressing room with his name on it. "Them Changes" contains a drum sample from the 1977 track "Footsteps in the Dark" by the Isley Brothers, the same sample used in Ice Cube's "It Was A Good Day". On record, Bruner’s songs split the difference between thumping pop-funk, emotive swells of melody and jazz fusion’s heady cosmic undertow. Their songs are so strange, and so sophisticated. This is a really narrow field of one, occupied by 35-year-old Los Angelean Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner, freak-funk polymath, anime obsessive, heir of … Known as "digging in the crates", this method is best used to bring the sound, feel and emotion he wants to convey in his music. “Things became a bit realer to me. It was hilarious — we’d try to fit all my brother’s drums and my bass amp in this two-seater.”. View phone numbers, addresses, public records, background check reports and possible arrest records for Jeffrey Bruner in Michigan (MI). The 36-year-old bass virtuoso and singer dropped his latest record, “It Is What It Is,” in April. He never imagined he’d be a lead vocalist, let alone the kind of artist who processes painful experiences in song. “That ain’t nothing new. (2014), and the release of Thundercat's second album Apocalypse (2013). He released his first solo album in 2011, The Golden Age of Apocalypse, which featured production from Flying Lotus, and was influenced by 1970s fusion artists such as Stanley Clarke and George Duke. Purple, green, orange, canary yellow, but no black.”, Bruner’s parents were strict about curfews, but being musicians, they saw Washington as a positive influence, Bruner said. She would make me stand out in front and sing with her.”. An example of this can be heard on his EP released in 2015 titled The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam. The bassist and singer Stephen Bruner invites listeners into his eccentric world. His father, Ronald Bruner Sr., … “That was my ace, my best friend,” Bruner said. 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