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Jason Byrne - Red Cat Publicity

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Jason is the owner and operator of Red Cat Publicity

This January 2026, thirty-six year music industry veteran Jason Paul Harman Byrne celebrates the twenty-first 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, 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, 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, Samuel Torres, Roland Vazquez, Will Vinson, Ben Wendel, Martin Wind, Clark Sommers, Stephen Philip Harvey, Joe Fiedler, Jody Redhage Ferber/Alan Ferber/Mark Ferber, Randal Despommier, Jimmy Farace, Brad Shepik, Tone Forest, Ben Kono, Ed Neumeister, Diskonife Records 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.

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