TOM BRUNER - GUITARIST
Having
been a working guitarist from age 16, Tom’s
core musical love is
playing guitar. After the years of performing with the North Texas Lab Bands,
he studied with, and was befriended by, guitar legend Johnny Smith, while
Tom was a member of the Air Force Band in Colorado Springs. Then the decade
of the 1970s found him having the unique and extremely valuable experiences
of sitting next to the greatest guitarists in the world on studio sessions
in Los Angeles. He has written 6 books of guitar and is an advocate of jazz
guitar, often times paying tribute in concerts to jazz great, Wes Montgomery.
Jazz Guitar Player's Party at Tom's House in 1982
From
left to right, top row: Tony Rizzi, Mundell Lowe, Dave Koonse, Al Viola,
unknown, Chuck Collozzi, Neil LeVang, Ron Benson, Tim May, Joe DiBlasi,
Mitch Holder, Tom Bruner, 2nd row: John Pisano, Pete Woodford, Chuck
Pierce,
Bottom row: Al Vescovo, Oscar Castro-Nueves, Mel Bay, George Van Eps,
Barry Zweig and Carmen Mosier
Tom at his cartage company with his studio guitars and trunk
Tom with Les Paul
Johnny Smith, Tom Bruner and Herb Ellis
Tom Bruner and Herb Ellis
Tom while with the United States Air Force
Academy Falconaires