Multiprises is an award-winning production company specializing in television, video, books, and digital media, with content distributed worldwide across multiple platforms.
The company earned global acclaim for the landmark Masters of American Music series—ten definitive documentaries including Satchmo: Louis Armstrong, the Cable ACE-winning Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday, Ray Charles: The Genius of Soul, and The World According to John Coltrane. Companion books, published internationally, include Gary Giddins’ Celebrating Bird and Satchmo (Doubleday), Robert O’Meally’s Lady Day, distributed (Little, Brown) and Pete Welding and Byron’s Bluesland (Dutton). Byron brought Peter Guralnick’s classic Searching for Robert Johnson to blues audiences worldwide.
President Toby Byron also produced Blue Note Records’ Thelonious Monk – Paris 1969 and executive produced David Leaf’s acclaimed film The Night James Brown Saved Boston (VH1, 2009), later released in the deluxe box set James Brown: I Got the Feelin’ (Shout Factory).
Other highlights include the live Kennedy Center special A Tribute to Muddy Waters – King of the Blues with Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, Keith Richards, and Bob Dylan; the acclaimed histories Bluesland and The Story of Jazz; Nine Hundred Nights: Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin; and the CBS Mother’s Day special All Star Moms(1998), co-produced with Linda Ellerbee and featuring Robin Williams, Shaquille O’Neal, Ellen DeGeneres, among many.
Byron began his career in the San Francisco Bay Area as a concert promoter (Boz Scaggs, Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks), booking agent (Michael Bloomfield, Jerry Garcia) and tour manager (Van Morrison). Relocating to New York, he was a personal manager (Lenny White, Al Di Meola and helped bring The Clash to America.
The company earned global acclaim for the landmark Masters of American Music series—ten definitive documentaries including Satchmo: Louis Armstrong, the Cable ACE-winning Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday, Ray Charles: The Genius of Soul, and The World According to John Coltrane. Companion books, published internationally, include Gary Giddins’ Celebrating Bird and Satchmo (Doubleday), Robert O’Meally’s Lady Day, distributed (Little, Brown) and Pete Welding and Byron’s Bluesland (Dutton). Byron brought Peter Guralnick’s classic Searching for Robert Johnson to blues audiences worldwide.
President Toby Byron also produced Blue Note Records’ Thelonious Monk – Paris 1969 and executive produced David Leaf’s acclaimed film The Night James Brown Saved Boston (VH1, 2009), later released in the deluxe box set James Brown: I Got the Feelin’ (Shout Factory).
Other highlights include the live Kennedy Center special A Tribute to Muddy Waters – King of the Blues with Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, Keith Richards, and Bob Dylan; the acclaimed histories Bluesland and The Story of Jazz; Nine Hundred Nights: Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin; and the CBS Mother’s Day special All Star Moms(1998), co-produced with Linda Ellerbee and featuring Robin Williams, Shaquille O’Neal, Ellen DeGeneres, among many.
Byron began his career in the San Francisco Bay Area as a concert promoter (Boz Scaggs, Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks), booking agent (Michael Bloomfield, Jerry Garcia) and tour manager (Van Morrison). Relocating to New York, he was a personal manager (Lenny White, Al Di Meola and helped bring The Clash to America.