Bunny Brunel
Encyclopedia
Bunny Brunel is a French
-born American
bass guitarist who has played with various jazz
notables including Chick Corea
, Herbie Hancock
, Wayne Shorter
and numerous others. He is a founding member of the jazz fusion
band CAB
, and is also involved in musical instrument design and film and television scoring.
With CAB
band:
With Pomeroy
:
Didier Lockwood
:
With Chick Corea
:
With Michel Polnareff
:
With Kazumi Watanabe
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
-born American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
bass guitarist who has played with various jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
notables including Chick Corea
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
, Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
, Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
and numerous others. He is a founding member of the jazz fusion
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...
band CAB
CAB (band)
CAB is a jazz fusion supergroup featuring Bunny Brunel , Tony MacAlpine , Brian Auger , Patrice Rushen and Dennis Chambers...
, and is also involved in musical instrument design and film and television scoring.
Discography
- Touch (1979)
- Ivanhoe (1980)
- Momentum (1996)
- Brunel's LA Zoo (1998)
- Dedication (1993)
- For You to Play (1994)
- LA Zoo Revisited (2005)
- Cafe Au Lait (2005)
With CAB
CAB (band)
CAB is a jazz fusion supergroup featuring Bunny Brunel , Tony MacAlpine , Brian Auger , Patrice Rushen and Dennis Chambers...
band:
- Cab 1 (2000)
- Cab 2 (2001)
- Cab 4 (2003)
- Cab Live At The Baked Potato (2006)
- Cab Live On Sunset (2011) CD & DVD
- As well as 3 Video CAB 1, CAB 2 and CAB at MI
With Pomeroy
Pomeroy (band)
Pomeroy is a band that had significant success throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s in the Midwest. Blending hip-hop and funk, the group was able to draw a large following during that time period, but has fallen in relative obscurity due to lack of touring and publicity.- Biography :Pomeroy...
:
- "Cocoon Club" (2001)
Didier Lockwood
Didier Lockwood
Didier Lockwood is a French jazz violinist. He played in the progressive rock/jazz fusion band Magma in the 1970s and is known for his use of electric amplification and experimentation on different sounds on the electric violin....
:
- Lockwood (1975)
With Chick Corea
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
:
- Secret Agent (1978)
- Tap Step (1979)
With Michel Polnareff
Michel Polnareff
Michel Polnareff, born in Nérac on 3 July 1944, is a French singer-songwriter who was very popular from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s...
:
- Ze Tour (2007)
With Kazumi Watanabe
Kazumi Watanabe
Kazumi Watanabe is a jazz and jazz fusion guitarist, from Tokyo, Japan. He was born on October 14, 1953 Kazumi learned to play guitar from Sadanori Nakamure, one of Japan's grandmaster guitarists. Kazumi released his first recording in 1971, and quickly became a promising guitarist in his own right...
- KilowattKilowatt (album)Kilowatt is an album by jazz fusion guitarist Kazumi Watanabe, originally released on audio cassette in 1989. In 1991 it was released again on cassette, CD and LP.-Track listing:All songs by Kazumi Watanabe unless otherwise noted....
(1989)
External links
- Official Site
- Youtube.com PBS footage from 1979 with Chick CoreaChick CoreaArmando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
playing Sicily - Discussion With Bunny Brunel, 12/01/2007