Jason Reolon

Who is Jason Reolon?

Jason Reolon is a South African pianist and son of jazz drummer Bobby Gien and jazz singer Josie Gien. Reolon was winner of the Southern African Music Rights Organisation National Overseas Scholarship for best Jazz Pianist in 2001, the scholarship for which he took up in New York in 2004. With his jazz band Breakfast Included, he is a 2 times winner of the Old Mutual Jazz Encounters competition. Reolon performed at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2004, a spin-off of the North Sea Jazz Festival held in The Netherlands.