Kyle Eastwood Band Brings Distinctive Jazz Sound to the South Bay Paris‐Based Jazz Musician Returns Home for Show at Montalvo April 6 at 8Pm

For Immediate Release Contact: Leah Ammon, (408) 961‐5814 March 1, 2012 [email protected] Kyle Eastwood Band Brings Distinctive Jazz Sound to the South Bay Paris‐based jazz musician returns home for show at Montalvo April 6 at 8pm “There’s no denying Kyle has imagination and style.” The Observer “Thoughtful, contemplative, admirably understated and highly listenable.” Evening Standard SARATOGA, Calif. – Composer, bassist, and bandleader Kyle Eastwood is hailed for his international jazz sound. He will showcase his talents for Bay Area audiences in a performance with his quartet band on Friday, April 6 at 8pm at the Montalvo Arts Center. The show will be one of the final performances in the 2011‐12 Carriage House Concert Series at Montalvo. Tickets are on sale now in the Montalvo Box office and are also available via Ticketmaster.com. Citing Bennie Goodman, Count Basie, and Led Zeppelin as just a few of his inspirations, Eastwood has developed a signature style that blends funk, rock, R&B, and American jazz. He is praised by critics not only for his skilled technique, but his consummate showmanship in concert. The upcoming show will be more than just another West Coast performance for Eastwood—in fact, it will be something of a homecoming for the California native. Though he is now based in Paris, Kyle grew up in Carmel. His development into a musician was inspired both by his hometown and his father, actor/composer/director Clint Eastwood. Kyle recalls that as a child in the family home, – MORE – albums by such artists as Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and Dave Brubeck were often playing in the background. At the age of eight, his father took him to the Monterey Jazz Festival. Inspired by the musicians he saw in concert there, Kyle decided that he wanted to learn to play the piano. Clint, an accomplished jazz pianist in his own right, began to teach his son to play. His first lesson: the boogie‐woogie on the keyboard. As a teenager, Kyle began to play the guitar and the electric bass. Though he enrolled at the University of Southern California to study film, he quickly came to realize that his abiding passion was for music. He dropped out of college after just one year in order to pursue his passion full‐ time, studying jazz with instructors such as the French‐born bass legend Bunny Brunel. Eastwood released his first album, From There to Here, in 1998. He has since gone on to record four additional albums—most recently, the 2011 album Songs from the Chateau—and he tours extensively in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Though he decided not to pursue a career in the film industry, Kyle has remained fascinated by cinema. “Film‐making and jazz have certain similarities, he says. "[The process of] film‐making is a lot like going into the studio and recording an album: the editing, the putting things together. And jazz is very visual." In addition to his jazz work, he has contributed music to the soundtracks for five of his father’s films, including Million Dollar Baby, Invictus, and Mystic River, and composed the score to an additional six films, including An Unlikely Weapon, Gran Torino (for which Kyle was nominated for a Golden Globe), and Flags of our Fathers. KYLE EASTWOOD BAND AT THE MONTALVO CARRIAGE HOUSE THEATER What: Internationally‐acclaimed jazz star Kyle Eastwood and his band to perform at Montalvo When: Friday, April 6, at 8 pm Where: Carriage House Theater at the Montalvo Arts Center Admission: General: $35 / $30 | Members: $31 / $27. Tickets available through the Montalvo Box Office, Monday‐Friday, 10am–4 pm at (408) 961‐5858 and through Ticketmaster.com. # # # 2 of 3 About Montalvo Arts Center Now celebrating its centennial year, Montalvo Arts Center is an oasis of culture and nature whose mission is to create and present arts of all types, nurture artists, and use our historic Villa, buildings, and grounds in innovative ways that engage people in the creative process. Located in Silicon Valley's Saratoga hills, Montalvo occupies a Mediterranean‐style Villa, built in 1912 by Senator James Duval Phelan, surrounded by 175 stunning acres, including the campus of our international Lucas Artists Residency Program. Senator Phelan bequeathed the villa and grounds to the people of California for the encouragement of art, music, literature and architecture, a mandate that Montalvo has carried forward ever since its founding. For more information about Montalvo Arts Center, call (408) 961‐5800 or visit www.montalvoarts.org. 3 of 3 .

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