Kyle Eastwood

[Doddy]

I've just come away from seeing Kyle Eastwood play at the Southport Jazz
Festival. What a great player.
There seemed to be a bunch of people there who were only there because of
his last name,but they had there preconceptions changed. The band was
tight and killing.
If you get the chance to see him,you should chech him out.

I think I'll have to go see him again in Newcastle Under Lyme tomorrow.

[bubinga5]

[quote name='Doddy' post='852209' date='May 30 2010, 11:11 PM']I've just come away from seeing Kyle Eastwood play at the Southport Jazz
Festival. What a great player.
There seemed to be a bunch of people there who were only there because of
his last name,but they had there preconceptions changed. The band was
tight and killing.
If you get the chance to see him,you should chech him out.

I think I'll have to go see him again in Newcastle Under Lyme tomorrow.[/quote]
+100... i saw him at the Chelt jazz festival...top bassist, and a lovely bloke....good call Doddy.

[Stingray5]

An excellent player on both electric and string bass.
I've managed to miss the last couple of times he's played in London ( ) but one or two of his concerts pop up on Sky Arts 1 from time to time ( ).

[Cat Burrito]

As cool as his Dad

[geoffbyrne]

Anybody tell me where to see the dates of the gigs?

G.

[wateroftyne]

It's like Google never existed...

[url="http://www.myspace.com/kyleeastwood"]http://www.myspace.com/kyleeastwood[/url]

[geoffbyrne]

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='852403' date='May 31 2010, 10:23 AM']It's like Google never existed...

[url="http://www.myspace.com/kyleeastwood"]http://www.myspace.com/kyleeastwood[/url][/quote]

Muchly ta!!!

G.

[jwbassman]

[quote name='Doddy' post='852209' date='May 30 2010, 11:11 PM']I've just come away from seeing Kyle Eastwood play at the Southport Jazz
Festival. What a great player.
There seemed to be a bunch of people there who were only there because of
his last name,but they had there preconceptions changed. The band was
tight and killing.
If you get the chance to see him,you should chech him out.

I think I'll have to go see him again in Newcastle Under Lyme tomorrow.[/quote]

I was at that gig too - what fantastic playing... I've seen him twice now (last time was also at the Southport Jazz Festival, a couple of year ago). As you rightly say the whole band was great and there was a great connection between all the guys on stage.

It was just a shame that the acoustics in that room are so poor (I did a gig with the Swingshift Bigband in there earlier in the day - the on stage sound was terrible but we struggled through).

I met him after the gig and he signed a CD for me too - he seemed like a really down to earth kinda guy

[bassicinstinct]

[Lenny B]

[quote name='Doddy' post='852209' date='May 30 2010, 11:11 PM']I've just come away from seeing Kyle Eastwood play at the Southport Jazz
Festival. What a great player.
There seemed to be a bunch of people there who were only there because of
his last name,but they had there preconceptions changed. The band was
tight and killing.
If you get the chance to see him,you should chech him out.

I think I'll have to go see him again in Newcastle Under Lyme tomorrow.[/quote]


Was it Martyn Kaine on drums? Brilliant drummer, top bloke

[51m0n]

Saw him last night at the Brighton Corn Exchange - took Plux along.

No denying he can play, I felt the band took a while to really warm up to it last night, the sound guy was fiddling a lot too, the bass sound was pretty muddy, he was going through an Edent WT800 and 410, so it wasnt the bass rig, dont think there was any bass in the PA to speak of though, and the trumpet was ear splitting most of the time.

But once they got a full head of steam they were brilliant, Kyle was (nearly) as cool as his pa, fantastically lyrical solos and superb compositions (never heard his stuff before), some breathtakingly fast grooves, but the highlight for me was his bass/piano duet of the theme from the film Iwo Jima (which he co-wrote), really beautiful piece, played exceptionally well, just too short, I wanted it to go on for a lot longer!


Great evening, thoroughly recommended, even for those of you who are not into jazz first and foremost!

[mart]

Who's his dad? Is it [url="http://www.brianeastwoodguitars.co.uk/bender.html"]this guy?[/url]

Edited June 4, 2010 by mart