Kyle Eastwood

Kyle Eastwood is an American jazz bassist, film composer and arranger. His big, elegant, woody tone straddles the line between straight-ahead, acoustic post-bop and contemporary jazz. The son of actor/director Clint Eastwood, he inherited his father's love for jazz. A respected composer he began scoring his father's films with The Rookie with composer Michael Stevens in 1990. Eastwood issued his debut leader date titled From There to Here in 1998. Resuming his scoring career, Eastwood and Stevens wrote music for Mystic River (2003), Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006). The bassist's pop-and-soul influenced Paris Blue appeared in 2004 and the funkier, Now in 2006. In 2007, Eastwood scored sister Alison's film Rails & Ties. In 2008, he and Stevens scored Gran Torino, followed a year later by the bassist's Metropolitan and the score for Invictus. They composed the music for 2011's J. Edgar followed in 2011. That year Eastwood joined trumpeter Graeme Flowers and saxophonist Graeme Blevins on Songs from the Chateau. The bassist signed with the Jazz Village for 2013's The View from Here, followed by Timepieces two years later. In 2017, he returned with In Transit, featuring saxophonist Stefano Di Battista. 2019 saw the release of the aptly-titled Cinematic, comprised of music from films, followed bya re-reecording of Gran Torino the following year on Discograph. Eastwood Symphonic, an orchestral suite of themes from his father's films, was released in 2023. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi