Talking Up Music Education is a podcast from The NAMM Foundation that shares news and stories about music education. Episode 45 includes an interview with bass guitarist Bunny Brunel. The podcast was one of many recorded and broadcast live from The 2018 NAMM Show; other interviews include Hunter Hayes, OK Go, Vanessa Carlton and more.
“Just keep practicing and focusing on what you want to achieve,” said Brunel. “Do not listen to anybody. It’s your life. If you listen to somebody else…it’s not going to happen.”
Brunel’s musical journey was anything but a straight line to playing alongside jazz legends Chick Correa, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne Shorter. In this episode the two-time Grammy-nominated bass player shared his journey from teaching himself to play piano as a child in France, to attending École Hoteliere de Nice for hospitality, and to becoming an advanced student of the upright bass at the Conservatory in Nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cgdT2ynvHU&feature=youtu.be
Original Source:
https://www.nammfoundation.org/articles/2018-04-21/jazz-great-bunny-brunel-growing-france-and-his-musical-influences