Kyle Eastwood

Kyle Eastwood (born May 19, 1968) is an American jazz bassist, film composer and actor. He studied film at the University of Southern California for two years before embarking on a music career. After becoming a session player in the early 1990s and leading his own quartet, he released his first solo album, From There to Here, in 1998. His album The View from Here was released in 2013 by Jazz Village. In addition to his solo albums, Eastwood has composed music for nine of his father Clint Eastwood's films. Eastwood plays fretted and fretless electric bass guitar and double bass.

Early life Kyle Clinton Eastwood was born May 19, 1968, the son of Margaret Neville Eastwood (née Johnson) (born 1931) and actor-director Clint Eastwood. He has a sister, Alison, who was born in 1972. He also has six known paternal half-siblings, including Scott Eastwood and Francesca Eastwood.

Career Music

Eastwood comes from a musical family, as noted in an October 27, 2006, article from The Independent newspaper:

Music was prominent in the Eastwood home. According to his biography with Hopper Management, Eastwood grew up listening to records by jazz legends such as Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk, and the Stan Kenton Big Band with his parents, who were both jazz lovers. Eastwood attended the Monterey Jazz Festival numerous times with his parents. "One advantage of having a famous father was I got to go backstage," Eastwood explained in an interview conducted by stepmother Dina Ruiz Eastwood. "I met a lot of artists, greats like Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan. Looking back on that, I can see how much the musicians I met there influenced my career."

Eastwood began playing bass guitar in high school, learning R&B, Motown, and reggae tunes by ear. After studying with French bassist Bunny Brunel, he began playing gigs in New York City and Los Angeles, forming the Kyle Eastwood Quartet, which contributed to Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall (1996), a concert in honor of Clint Eastwood and his dedication to jazz. Clint Eastwood has always been supportive of, and interested in, Kyle's work, as Eastwood told The Independent: "As far as my father is concerned, as long as I was serious about my music career, he was supportive of me."

Two years later, in 1998, Sony released his first album, From There to Here, a collection of jazz standards and original compositions.

In 2014, Eastwood and Matt McGuire contributed to the score of the documentary Homme Less about homeless photographer Mark Reay.

Other work Kyle Eastwood provided the voice of "Daddy" in "Daddy and Son" (2007) and the voice of 1980s-era DJ Andy Wright for the computer game The Movies (2005).

He had a supporting role in the 1982 Clint Eastwood film Honkytonk Man.

Personal life In 1995, Eastwood married Laura Gomez, with whom he had a daughter. They later divorced.

Eastwood married Cynthia Ramirez in September 2014 at his father's Mission Ranch Hotel in Carmel, California.

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— — 20 Rendezvous / Candid 2007

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Charted singles Year Title Peak chart positions AlbumSmooth JazzAirplay 2007 "Now" 25 Now"—" denotes a recording that did not chart.

Filmography Composer/performer/arranger 1990 The Rookie as composer, "Red Zone" with Michael Stevens 1991 Regarding Henry as uncredited performer 2003 Mystic River as composer, "Cosmo", "Black Emerald Blues" with Michael Stevens 2004 Million Dollar Baby as composer, "Boxing Baby", "Solferino", "Blue Diner" with Michael Stevens 2006 Letters from Iwo Jima as composer, with Michael Stevens 2006 Flags of Our Fathers as arranger 2007 Rails & Ties as music by 2008 Changeling as arrangements 2008 Gran Torino as composer, with Michael Stevens 2009 Invictus as composer, with Michael Stevens 2011 J. Edgar as composer, "Red Sails in the Sunset", "I Only Have Eyes for You"

Actor 1976 The Outlaw Josey Wales as Josey's Son (uncredited) 1980 Bronco Billy as Orphan (uncredited) 1982 Honkytonk Man as Whit Stovall 1990 The Rookie as Band Member at Ackerman's House Party (uncredited) 1995 The Bridges of Madison County as James Rivers Band 2007 Summer Hours as James 2011 J. Edgar as Member of The "Stork Club Band"