Julius Ansco Bruinier (7 November 1898 - 6 February 1972) was a musician in the Berlin Jazz / Dance music band, known as the Weintraub's Syncopators. During the 1920s he played the trumpet in the band, but the only instrument in which he had received formal training was the 'cello, and on occasion he played fluently any one of a range of other instruments. He was an engineer by profession.