Jason Reolon Trio
Location: Based in Cape TownBiography
Jason Reolon Trio released its first album, "Off the Record", in 2007, and is one of the most popular Jazz bands on the Cape Town circuit. In 2011, they released the critically acclaimed "Outline".
The son of the South African drumming legend Bobby Gien, pianist Jason Reolon helped to found Breakfast Included in 1999. His band walked off with the Old Mutual Jazz Encounters trophy for best Jazz Band in the Western Cape for the second year running in 2001. It was in this same year that he graduated from UCT with a degree in jazz performance and composition, and was also voted as winner of the South African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) National Overseas Scholarship Competition for best South African Jazz Pianist, an honour which took him to New York in 2004 to further his studies and career. He was also chosen as pianist for the National Youth Big Band at the Grahamstown festival.
Jason is also a permanent member of the highly acclaimed jazz quintet 'The Restless Natives and is the keyboardist for the South African singing legend Vicky Sampson and Electro House sensation group, Iridium Project. Reolon has been a full time lecturer of Jazz Piano at the University of Cape Town's College of Music for the last 6 years.
Discography
- CD - Jason Reolon Trio - Off the Record (2007) (DIR001)
- DVD - Jason Reolon Trio - Double Standards (2010)
- CD – Jason Reolon Trio - Outline (2011) (JRT02)
Jason Reolon is sponsored by Kawai & Ian Burgess-Simpson Pianos
www.kawai.co.za
www.ianburgess-simpson.com
South African Noteworthy Performances
With his various bands and projects, Jason Reolon has featured at some of the most prestigious events in South Africa, including:
- North Sea Jazz Festival
- Cape Town International Jazz Festival
- Grahamstown Jazz Festival
- Davidoff Vocal Jazz Festival
- Rocking the Daisies Festival
- FIFA Semi Final Match Greenpoint Stadium
- Bryan Adams Tour as Support band - JHB/Cape Town/Durban
- Up the Creek Festival
- Synergy Festival
- Durban July
- J&B Met
- Hermanus Jazz Festival
- Loerie Advertising Awards
- H20 Live Music Festival
- Jazz at the Nassau 10th Anniversary Concert
- International Jazz Educators Convention IAJE
- National Freedom Day Concert
- Dunhill Party Nationwide Tour
- UCT Vice Chancellor’s Concert
- Flamjangled Tea Party Festival
- SAMRO Gala Final Guest Performance
- National Freedom Day Concert
- Mens Health Fashion Show
- Kirstenbosch Sunset Concert
- Oude Libertas Concert
- Obz Music Festival
- Forbidden Fruits Festival
- International Horn Symposium
- Queen’s Plate
- Cape Town Arts Festival
- Smirnoff International Comedy Festival
- Cape Town Jazzathon
- Franschoek Champagne Festival
- Tulbagh Festival
- Blackberry Val de Vie Pink Polo Event
- Robertson Wacky Wine Festival
- CTICC Birthday Concert
- MTN Fifa Fan Park
- Hyundai Global Convention
- Cape Premier Yearling Sale
- FNB Whisky Live Festival, Cape Town
- Anton Rupert Foundation VVIP Event
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