1. Early Life and Work

2. Business Career

3. Multiprises, LLC

4. I Require Art

5. Filmography

6. Books

7. References

8. External links

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Early Life and Work

Toby Byron was born in Oakland, California to Lloyd Byron and Jane Rosay. Byron's father was for many years a principal in the San Francisco mechanical engineering firm, Gayner Engineers. His mother was a homemaker. First living in San Francisco (Haight and Broderick), Byron's family moved to South San Francisco and when he was 8, to Mill Valley in Marin County. A young competitive swimmer, Byron was sidetracked by San Francisco's psychedelic rock scene where he had a front row seat. It was in high school that he began booking his friends' bands, and with friend Michael Goldberg, promoting concerts throughout Marin County featuring bands such as Clover, Flying Circus, Muskadine Blues Band, Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks, Shades of Joy, Seatrain, Sons of Champlin, Boz Scaggs and Mike Bloomfield.^[4] Byron and Goldberg also published a Rolling Stone-styled music publication, Hard Road, with a Jerry Garcia interview and cover. It lasted one issue.

Business Career

Following graduation from Mill Valley's Tamalpais High School in 1971, Byron became a booking agent and later Mike Bloomfield's personal agent and road manager^[5], administering recording sessions, serving as go-between with Columbia Records, Bloomfield’s record company, and facilitating collaborations with Mark Naftalin, Dr. John, John Hammond, Jr., Al Kooper, Chicago Slim^[6] and Sunnyland Slim among others.^[7] In 1974, Byron tour managed Van Morrison before moving to New York City in 1975 to tour manage the then new jazz rock group, the Billy Cobham-George Duke Band. After two years he moved on to work with two ex-Return to Forever members, guitarist Al Di Meola and drummer Lenny White, whose career he managed until 1981. In this period, Byron extricated White from his recording contract with Nat Weiss' Nemperor Records and signed a new contract with Elektra Records’ fledgling fusion division under record executive Don Mizell. Byron helped make White and his group, Twennynine, a major crossover success with best-selling fusion funk hits (“Peanut Butter”); a touring group (with Prince, Rick James, Herbie Hancock) and television appearances (“Dick Clark’s American Bandstand,” “Dinah Shore,” “The Mike Douglas Show”).

Multiprises, LLC

Byron started his production company, Multiprises, LLC, in 1986 with the “Masters of American Music” series.^[8] It included 10 documentary films:^[9] “Celebrating Bird — The Triumph of Charlie Parker”; “Satchmo — Louis Armstrong”^[10]; “Lady Day — The Many Faces of Billie Holiday”; “The World According to John Coltrane”; “Thelonious Monk — American Composer”;^[11] “Sarah Vaughan — The Divine One”;^[12] “Count Basie — Swingin' The Blues”; “Ray Charles — The Genius of Soul”^[13]; the “Story of Jazz”; and “Bluesland — A Portrait in American Music.” These projects were funded via an international co-production deal with Germany's Beta Film, Japan's VideoArts Music and U.S. television broadcasters WNET (PBS), the A&E Network and Bravo cable network.^[14]

Multiprises has also packaged and produced book tie-ins with the company’s television production work.^[15] Books include: “Celebrating Bird — The Triumph of Charlie Parker” by Gary Giddins; “Satchmo — Louis Armstrong” by Gary Giddins; “Lady Day — The Many Faces of Billie Holiday” by Robert O'Meally;^[16] “Searching for Robert Johnson” by Peter Guralnick^[17]; “Bluesland—Portraits of Twelve Major American Blues Masters” by Pete Welding and Toby Byron^[18], and earlier books: “Listen to These Pictures — Photographs of John Lennon” by Bob Gruen and “Michael Bloomfield — The Rise and Fall of An American Guitar Hero” by Ed Ward^[19] in conjunction with the two-LP collection, “Bloomfield – A Retrospective” (Columbia Records).

Byron owns a voluminous, one-of-a-kind collection of original Billie Holiday research material, ephemera and photographs.

In 1997, Byron developed and co-produced with John Scher (Metropolitan Entertainment) and NHK Japan “The Kennedy Center Presents – A Tribute to Muddy Waters, King of The Blues,”, one of the first HD television specials with special guests, Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, Gregg Allman, Peter Wolf, John Hiatt, Nick Gravenites, Charlie Musselwhite, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Koko Taylor, Bob Dylan and Keith Richards. Billy Dee Williams hosted. Byron also developed and co-produced with Linda Ellerbee and Robert Riesenberg “All Star Moms,”^[20] a CBS television special with Robin Williams, Ellen Degeneres, Shaquille O’Neal, Dan Rather, Dwight Gooden, Gloria Estefan, Jane Seymour and Chuck Norris among others. Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher hosted. Save the Children was the charity partner.

Byron has continued producing with U.S. and international partners “Nine Hundred Nights-/ Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin"^[21]; “Billie Holiday-The Ultimate Collection” (Universal Music Group); “Louis Armstrong-The Portrait Collection”^[22] (Universal Music Group); “Thelonious Monk — Paris, 1969”^[23] (Blue Note Records). He has worked extensively in program distribution, arranging intellectual property and streaming deals for U.S. music properties worldwide.

I Require Art

In 2013, Byron joined I Require Art^[24], the digital arts platform, formalizing it and its parent company, I Require Art Studios, LLC. As co-owner and CEO, he has branded the entity, grown viewership, broadened the art viewing experience, introduced additional social features while putting it on a path to monetization and realizing the full market potential. The website was launched in December, 2014.

Filmography

Books

References

External links

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