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Jason Byrne - Red Cat Publicity
Jason is the owner and operator of Red Cat Publicity
About Me
This January 2020, thirty-year music industry veteran Jason Paul Harman Byrne celebrates
the fifteenth-year anniversary of Red Cat Publicity, a boutique PR firm offering creative and
energetic publicity services to artists who perform and record jazz, world and improvised
music.
Red Cat Publicity was officially launched with a highly publicized CD release and a sold out
CD celebration performance at Joe’s Pub by guitarist/composer Rez Abbasi on January 15,
2005. Since that time, over the past fourteen years, Red Cat Publicity has orchestrated
successful campaigns for artists/labels/venues such as Melissa Aldana, Anzic Records,
Michael Attias, Omer Avital, Bruce Barth, Jamie Baum, Roni Ben-Hur, Francois Bourassa,
Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records, Anat Cohen, trumpeter Avishai Cohen, bassist Avishai
Cohen, The Cornelia Street Café, Neil Cowley, Alexis Cuadrado, Dave Douglas, Mark Egan,
John Ellis, Shane Endsley, The Festival of New Trumpet Music, Sara Gazarek, Mark Guiliana,
Uri Gurvich, Stefon Harris, Kevin Hays, Gilad Hekselman, Ingrid & Christine Jensen, Eden
Ladin, Joe Locke, Shai Maestro, Camila Meza, Mike Moreno, Motema Music, The New York
Standards Quartet, Miles Okazaki, Aruan Ortiz, Red Piano Records, Rufus Reid, Will
Sellenraad, Yotam Silberstein, Leni Stern, Dayna Stephens, Marcus & E.J. Strickland, Helen
Sung, Samuel Torres, Roland Vazquez, Will Vinson, Ben Wendel, Martin Wind and many
others.
Jason Byrne got his start in the music business working at GRP Records for more than ten
years, beginning in 1992 as an assistant to Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen. He moved on to
the position of coordinator in the company’s international division, and eventually headed
up the department, as Director of International Marketing, during one of its most profitable
periods. Following GRP, Byrne was the senior publicist at Third Floor/EastWest Media for
almost six years.
With the opening of Red Cat Publicity in January 2005 Byrne was able to immediately offer
creative artists publicity services with intensity and dedication. Being an experienced
publicist, and musician, he is in a position to be an effective press agent for artists wishing
to expand their awareness and audience, and further their careers.