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The Gazette
His parents gave him the soundtrack of his youth. As an adult, he has given them soundtracks for their lives.Composer and bass player Kyle Eastwood, 44, cut his teeth on jazz.'That's the music they were listening to, more often than not,' Eastwood says of parents, Clint Eastwood and Clint’s ex-wife, Maggie Johnson Eastwood. 'I remember hearing it since I can remember, really. The very first concert I ever went to was the Monterrey Jazz Festival when I was about 8 or 9.“At an early age, I started going to gigs occasionally with my dad or my mom,” he says by phone from a recent tour stop in Seattle. “They were always just interested in music. It was always records playing around the house -- a lot of music appreciation going on.'He has shown them his appreciation, too, by composing soundtracks for his father's films, including 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' 'Gran Torino' and 'Invictus,' as well as songs for 'Mystic River,' 'Million Dollar Baby' and others.On his latest CD, 'The View from Here,' Eastwood penned a song for his mother, titled simply 'For M.E.' She got to hear it when Eastwood and his band played it live for the first time, during a recent Los Angeles gig.Maybe he'll play it live at the CSPS Hall on Tuesday (4/9). He says the concert -- his first in Iowa -- will feature a mix of tunes off the new album, previous recordings, 'the odd standard' and arrangements of music he's written for films.The details
- When: 7 p.m. Tuesday (4/9)
- Tickets: $20 advance, $25 door, at Legion Arts Box Office, (319) 364-1580 or Legionarts.org
- Artist's website: Kyleeastwood.com
Kyle Eastwood – Cinematic (Jazz Village. CD review by Rob Mallows) A jazz album of some of cinema’s classic soundtracks from Kyle Eastwood.There is a sort of divine inevitability that the bassist – famously, son of film director Clint Eastwood – would succumb to the temptation. Son of Hollywood actor/director, Clint Eastwood, Kyle grew up with jazz, took up the bass, and has become a virtuoso musician and composer. He has released.
He grew up in Carmel-by-the-Sea, the city south of San Francisco where his father served as mayor from 1986 to 1988. He studied piano for a few years, learned a little guitar at age 12 or 13 for one of the films he appeared in with his father, and a couple years later, picked up a bass guitar.'I had a lot of my friends in high school that were quite serious about music -- some quite accomplished musicians -- and they were always looking for a bass player,' he says, so he figured out how to make it sing.'It just came naturally,' he says, adding that the bass is more important to a band than people realize.“It’s a rhythmic instrument as well as being a harmonic instrument,” he says. “The bass can change the direction of the music quite a bit, just by changing a rhythm or by changing a note you place in the chord. It has quite an impact on the feel and the melody or harmony of a tune.”Gigs followed, jamming with friends and playing for parties. After high school, Eastwood moved to Los Angeles, and after a brief stint as a film major at the University of Southern California, he left school to study music privately, 'practicing my fingers off.' After another year or so, he embarked on his career.He says he still loves film and film history, and has his dad to thank for that -- as well as getting him into the music he likes and developing a serious work ethic. About 20 years ago, he married those interests by playing in film orchestras. A couple years later, his always-supportive father asked him to write a couple songs for his films..“I just ended up working my way up,” the younger Eastwood says.His music has taken him all over the world. He’s touring the United States right now, but will hop to Europe for the rest of spring, summer and fall, squeezing in a quick trip to Japan in July.He's bringing a quintet to Cedar Rapids, featuring trumpet, sax, piano, bass and drums. He calls it his 'American lineup of musicians,' since he now lives in Paris and plays with a different group of band mates overseas.Eastwood moved to Paris about six years ago or so, since he was spending more and more time performing across the Atlantic. His daughter, Graylen, who turns 19 this month, went to grade school and part of high school there, but will be going to college in Boston in the fall. He’s looking forward to seeing her in New York for her birthday.“She’s a really good girl; we’re quite close,” says Eastwood.Also on the home front, the sports, biking and skiing enthusiast has been engaged for about a year and says he “might be getting married sometime in the near future.”For the next few months, however, he's on the road, enjoying the chance to get in touch with his audiences.'Playing live is really the most musically challenging,' he says. 'I like playing in the studio, but playing live is where the magic happens. It's the most musically satisfying and the most fun to do.' The bass-player son of Clint Eastwood is celebrating great film composers for ‘Cinematic’
Renowned jazz bassist Kyle Eastwood has announced a new album titled ‘Cinematic’ featuring jazz interpretations of famous movie themes (including some from his famous father Clint Eastwood). He says the silver screen has always been his second great passion after music, so he wanted to celebrate some of the great compositions and composers including Ennio Morricone, John Williams, Michel Legrand, Henry Mancini, Lalo Schifrin and Bernard Herrmann with this new project.
With the exception of Kyle, it’s an all-British band on the album - Andrew McCormack on piano, Quentin Collins on trumpet, Brandon Allen on saxophone and Chris Higginbottom on drums as well as guest vocalists Hugh Coltman and Camille Bertault. ‘Cinematic’ is set for release on November 8th on the Jazz Village label.
Tracklist:
1. Bullitt (Composer Lalo Schifrin)
2. Taxi Driver – Theme (Composer: Bernard Herrmann)
3. Les Moulins de mon cœur feat. Camille Bertault (Author: Marilyn Bergman / Alan Bergman, Compositeur : Michel Legrand / Eddy Marnay)
4. The Eiger Sanction (Composer: John T. Williams)
5. Gran Torino feat. Hugh Coltman (Composer: Michaël Stevens / Kyle Eastwood / Clint Eastwood / Jamie Cullum)
6. Pink Panther – Theme (Composer: Henry Mancini)
7. Per le antiche scale (Composer: Ennio Morricone)
8. Charade (Composer: Henry Mancini)
9. Unforgiven (Composer: Clint Eastwood)
10. Skyfall (Composer: Adele Adkins / Paul Epworth)
11. Gran Torino (Composer: Michaël Stevens / Kyle Eastwood / Clint Eastwood / Jamie Cullum)
2. Taxi Driver – Theme (Composer: Bernard Herrmann)
3. Les Moulins de mon cœur feat. Camille Bertault (Author: Marilyn Bergman / Alan Bergman, Compositeur : Michel Legrand / Eddy Marnay)
4. The Eiger Sanction (Composer: John T. Williams)
5. Gran Torino feat. Hugh Coltman (Composer: Michaël Stevens / Kyle Eastwood / Clint Eastwood / Jamie Cullum)
6. Pink Panther – Theme (Composer: Henry Mancini)
7. Per le antiche scale (Composer: Ennio Morricone)
8. Charade (Composer: Henry Mancini)
9. Unforgiven (Composer: Clint Eastwood)
10. Skyfall (Composer: Adele Adkins / Paul Epworth)
11. Gran Torino (Composer: Michaël Stevens / Kyle Eastwood / Clint Eastwood / Jamie Cullum)