American bassist, composer and bandleader Kyle Eastwood was raised on a diet of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis, fed by his father Clint Eastwood's own taste for jazz.
As Kyle Eastwood recently told The Telegraph, the first concert he went to was Count Basie's big band, in 1976, and going to the Monterey Jazz Festival was an annual family tradition – his dad had been going since the festival began in 1958. Six albums, numerous soundtrack credits (including Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby and Gran Torino) and a move to Europe later, Kyle Eastwood shows us The View From Here.
PLAY Stream The View From Here by Kyle Eastwood, available on CBC Music until the album is officially released on March 12, 2013.
One small sidebar. You might think that with a parent in the movie business Kyle Eastwood would have been naturally drawn to the industry as an actor or director. And in fact he did take a filmmaking course at university, but eventually concluded that music was his true love.
By all accounts, Eastwood senior was very supportive of his son's choice – maybe even a little envious. As Kyle Eastwood said in one interview, "My dad would have been jealous of my life when he was in his 20s. He really wanted to be a piano player – he loves music, and jazz in particular – but he found himself with acting."
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