Kyle EastwoodCountry and Western music is usually associated with cowboys, not jazz.

But Dirty Harry's son is coming to Wiltshire to perform at this year's Marlborough Jazz Festival.

Kyle Eastwood, who is the spitting image of his dad Clint, is among the stars of the jazz world who have agreed to be involved in the show.

The Marlborough Jazz Festival will run from July 8 to July 10. Previous festivals have attracted more than 10,000 people from all over the world.

Other musicians playing at the festival include Clare Teale, Chris Barber and Geno Washington.

Kyle was perhaps destined to become a jazzman as his father is a lover of the music and Kyle, 36, grew up on the Monterey peninsula, home of the Monterey Jazz Festival.

Family connections helped him meet jazz legends such as Miles Davis and Sarah Vaughan at the festival during his early youth.

He played guitar in his early teens but soon switched to the bass guitar and then to the double bass.

In a varied career he has been a session musician backing pop singers and he has recorded film scores, including Unforgiven and Mystic River, both directed by his father.

In 1982 Kyle starred in one of his father's films, Honky-tonk Man. In the film he played his real father's nephew.

Clint Eastwood, 74, has three other children, two of whom followed their father into acting.

Clint's first love was jazz but he was drafted into the Army Special Services before he could take up a place studying music at Seattle University.

Friends he made in the army persuaded him to try his hand at acting. His musical interests were carried on to the next generation.

In 1988 Clint had the chance to combine his two interests when he directed the film Bird, which charted the turbulent life of jazz musician Charlie 'Bird' Parker.

In December tragedy struck the family when Michael Combs, 42, the boyfriend of Eastwood's daughter Alison, died while the couple were snowboarding.

David Andrew