Double bass jazz player and composer. He is one of the most important bass players in history of Polish Jazz. He studied music at the State College of Music, Katowice, Poland with a Master of Fine Arts in Double Bass Performance. He also attended the National College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden.

Suchanek started professional career as a bass player in the early '70s he, initially at the Silesian Jazz Quartet; later on becoming a member of Mieczyslaw Kosz trio. Around the same time Suchanek joined Tomasz Stanko Quintet and Zbigniew Seifert Quartet. After dissolution of Stanko Quintet in 1973 he played, among others, with the Jazz Studio of Polish Radio with Jan Ptaszyn Wroblewski at the helmet

In 1976 Bronislaw Suchanek moved to Scandinavia, where he became part of the jazz scene, by 1976 recording with the tenor saxophonist Urban Hansson as well as Swedish-radio jazz groups under the direction of George Russell.

In 1980s Suchanek become a member of in the Polski Jazz Ensemble – an unique assembly of Polish Jazz expatriates (Leszek Zadlo, Wladyslaw Sendecki, Bronislaw Suchanek and Janusz Stefanski), which in 1985 released a self-titled album (Polski Jazz Ensemble).

Suchanek has performed and recorded in Europe, and the United States with such notables as Michael Urbaniak, Adam Makowicz, Art Farmer, George Russell and the Swedish Radio Jazz Group, Don Cherry, Benny Bailey, Thad Jones, Pepper Adams, Roland Hannah, Mal Waldrom, Mel Lewis, Kenny Hadley Big Band, Rick Stepton Sextet, Artie Shaw Orchestra, Rebecca Paris, James Williams, Alan Dawson, Jerry Bergonzi, Bill Brown, Mark Templeton, Jon Almark Big Band, Chris Neville, Amanda Carr and Pat Mitchell.

In the early '90s, Bronislaw Suchanek joined faculty of the University of Southern Maine (USA) where he teaches master classes in double bass in classical and improvised music. His musical odyssey continues - his latest release (2008) is a duet with Polish pianist and Dominik Wania called “Sketch in Blue” with 9 songs all originally composed by those artists.