Kyle Eastwood

Kyle Eastwood
Kyle Eastwood at the Jazz Cafe, London
Background information
Born	(1968-05-19) May 19, 1968 (age 48)
Origin	Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician, Actor
Instruments	Double bass, bass guitar
Years active	1990–present
Labels	Jazz Village
Website	Official website

Kyle Eastwood (born May 19, 1968) is an American jazz bass musician. 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 2013 by Jazz Village. Eastwood plays fretted and fretless electric bass guitar and acoustic double bass. His new album Time Pieces was released in 2015.

Kyle Eastwood was born May 19, 1968, the son of actor-director Clint Eastwood and Maggie Johnson. He was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. He is the elder brother of actress/director Alison Eastwood, and paternal half-brother of Scott Eastwood, Francesca Eastwood, Kathryn Eastwood, Kimber Eastwood, and Morgan Eastwood.

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

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 Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk, and the Stan Kenton Big Band with his parents, both jazz lovers. Eastwood attended the Monterey Jazz Festival numerous times with his parents, as well. "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."