Sam Eastmond is a composer, arranger, bandleader, trumpet player and producer creating music incorporating a variety of genres including jazz, klezmer, cartoon, rock, surf, world, jewish and Downtown influences. Interweaving improvisation and intricately arranged composition.

Eastmond is known for his decade plus collaborations with John Zorn on large ensemble projects, including Zorn's MASADA Book Two, MASADA Book Three and the Book of Bagatelles, the only artist to have worked across all these series, alongside releasing his own compositions on Tzadik.

He leads the Spike Orchestra, The Bagatelles band, the Composers Workshop Big Band, Gulgoleth, the INDEX Orchestra playing Bill Dixon and has played in or composed music for projects including Moss Freed's Union Divion, Ferg's Imaginary Big Band, Bird Talk, TORU, the London Improvisors Orchestra, and Shirley Bassey.