"BOLD CHANGES", MORNING COFFEE & THE MUSIC OF KYLE EASTWOOD!
If you are a music lover and that love extends to Jazz, it is no secret that Clint Eastwood is a studious fan of the genre'. Recently, our local Phoenix Public Broadcasting Service radio station KJZZ featured as their CD of the evening bassist Kyle Eastwood's Metropolitain. Unless you have lived on another planet, you know of course that Kyle is the eldest son of actor Clint Eastwood. Give a good listen to "Bold Changes", a single rack on the new CD and you'll be in for quite a pleasant surprise.
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Kyle Eastwood vividly recalls a childhood in Carmel, California with Jazz music literally as his life's soundtrack! While I fancy myself as a fan of Clint Eastwood's impressive filmography, I had no idea that he and his family had been attending the annual Monterrey Jazz Festival since 1958. Even while doing his homework Kyle recalls listening to records of such Jazz stars such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Miles Davis playing in the house. As pianist, Clint introduced Kyle to the joys of the bass line by teaching him how to play the left hand bass line of "Boogie Woogie" while he played the right hand solo over the top. Contrary to what one might believe, being a son of a world-famous actor and director is itself no guarantee of success in any field, including music. Dues paying gigs around Los Angeles and New York inevitably led to his debut album From Here to There in 1998. As a film composer, Kyle worked on the music score for Mystic River. The film garnered two Academy Awards. His second CD, Paris Blue was released on the independent Jazz label Candid Records in 2004 and climbed to the number one spot on the French Jazz charts. That same year, Kyle composed three songs for Million Dollar Baby starring Hillary Swank with Clint Eastwood doubling as co-star and director. The film won four Academy Awards. +
Kyle's third album Now was released in 2006 and is credited with reaching a worldwide audience with tours throughout 2007 and 2008 to audiences on 3 continents to "Sold Out" venues. Soundtracks for three more Clint Eastwood films included: Flags Of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima and Gran Torino. His latest effort was released this past June. I'm admittedly a little late in getting around to blogging about it. But I take pride in the fact that I "bookmarked" the song for a mention here and made good on it. Kyle Eastwood is currently on tour in Europe.+
There's much more ahead. Here we are officially into Autumn, and I feel as if I'm still getting caught up on the last part of Summer. ENJOY THE WEEKEND!
posted by Michael Manning @ 12:01 AM
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Although I know to seperate the actor for the person, there is still something about that cigar smoking cowboy that seems to me to think more of honky tonk music than the jazz... thanks for telling us the rest of the story.
Sage: This will change if you see "Byrd". Clint is a Charlie Parker fan. A good jazz pianist too!
I'll have to give him a serious listen. I took the wife to a jazz under the stars session this past summer, she wasn't too impressed, but I loved it. Jazz is just the type of music you love or hate.
PM: I count myself as very lucky to have attended concerts by Weather Report (Jaco Patorius and Josef Zawinul are both gone now) and Return toForever featuring hick Corea and Stanley Clark!
autumn is a great time for jazz. everything is changing, yet its still only a variation on a theme.
Seraphine: I like that phrase! "Variations on a Theme". :D)
First morning coffee and listening to Jazz music :)
xoxo
Hey, Heidi!!! It's great to hear from you! :)
xoxo!;)
my favorite saying about jazz is:
play one note wrong, and it's a mistake.
play two notes wrong, and it's jazz.
Seraphine: It's always changing, that's for sure. :)
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