Kyle Eastwood at the Jazz Cafe, London Background information Born ( 1968-05-19) May 19, 1968 (age 49) Los Angeles, California, U.S. Genres Occupation(s) Musician, actor Instruments, Years active 1990–present Labels Website Kyle Eastwood (born May 19, 1968) is an American bass musician.

Find Kyle Eastwood bio, music, credits, awards, & streaming links on AllMusic - Gifted jazz bassist and bandleader, also the son. Kyle Eastwood. NEW ALBUM - IN TRANSIT - Kyle Eastwood grew up in Carmel, California as the eldest son of actor Clint Eastwood.

He studied film at the 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 2013 by Jazz Village.

Eastwood plays fretted and fretless electric bass guitar and double bass. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Early life [ ] Kyle Eastwood was born May 19, 1968, the son of Margaret Neville Johnson (born 1931) and actor-director. He was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in, California. He is the older brother of actress/director, and paternal half-brother of,, Kathryn Eastwood, Kimber Eastwood, and Morgan Eastwood. [ ] Career [ ] Music [ ] Eastwood comes from a musical family, as explained in an October 27, 2006, article from newspaper: “ When I told my father, film actor/director, I wanted to be a musician, he was happy about it. Music has always been important to my family. My parents gave me my taste in music and my love of jazz from an early age. Europe Q4 2008 Mn65 Map Zip more.

My father plays piano, my mother used to play, and my mother's mother was a music teacher at in Illinois. ” Music was a prominent fixture in the Eastwood home. According to his biography with Hopper Management, Eastwood grew up listening to records by jazz legends such as,,, and the Big Band with his parents, both jazz lovers. Eastwood attended the 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.

'I met a lot of artists, greats like and. 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,, and tunes. After studying with French bassist, 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: '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 and original compositions.

After signing with the UK's in 2004, Eastwood moved to 's label,, which released his albums (2005), and Now (2006). In addition to his solo albums, Eastwood has also contributed music to nine of his father's films: (1990), (2002), (2004), (2006), (2006), (2008), (2008), (2009) and (2011).