Norman Chesky is a music entrepreneur and executive producer of two Grammy award winning albums.^[1][2] He is the co-founder and co-owner of Manhattan Production Music and Chesky Records.^[3][4] Chesky also co-founded HDtracks, a music download service.^[5][6] He was a Trustee of the Recording Academy and is a co-founding member of the Production Music Association (PMA).^[7][8]

Career

Chesky co-founded and co-owns Manhattan Production Music.^[4][9] He served as a Trustee of the Recording Academy from 2002 to 2007.^[8]

Chesky Records

In 1986, Norman Chesky and his brother, David Chesky, co-founded Chesky Records.^[5][10][11] Norman Chesky serves as the president of the record label.^[12] Chesky Records was the first company to use 128x Oversampling and the first independent American record label to record using Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) technology.^[10] Norman Chesky was the executive producer of Portraits of Cuba and Tropicana Nights, two Grammy award winning albums under Chesky Records.^{[1][2][10][13][14]} In 2016, Chesky co-produced the critically acclaimed Jazz debut of Macy Gray, Stripped.^[15]

Production Music Association

Norman Chesky became a co-founding member of the Production Music Association in 1997.^[7] The association was founded by a group of composers and publishers who opposed a proposition to cap performance royalties on music used in commercials, promos and announcements.^[7]

HDtracks

Norman Chesky and David Chesky co-founded HDtracks, a high-resolution music download store in 2008.^[6][16][17] According to Audioholics, HDtracks is the world's first high resolution digital music site to offer DRM-free music in multiple formats.^[17] Norman Chesky serves HDtracks' president.^[18]

Discography

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• 2017 Orchestra of the 21st Century - David Chesky: Piano Concertos 2 & 3
• 2017 Camille Thurman - Inside the Moment
• 2017 Mark Whitfield - Live & Uncut
• 2017 Livingston Taylor - Safe Home
• 2017 Shelly Berg / David Finck - The Deep
• 2016 Various - Covers II
• 2016 David Chesky - The Venetian Concertos
• 2016 Noah Wall - Down Home Blues
• 2016 Melissa Menago - Little Crimes
• 2016 John McEuen - Made in Brooklyn
• 2016 Amber Rubarth - Scribbled Folk Symphonies
• 2016 Macy Gray - Stripped
• 2016 City of the Sun - To the Sun and All the Cities in Between
• 2016 Three's Company - We'll Be Together Again
• 2015 Chelsea Symphony / Yaniv Segal - David Chesky: Joy & Sorrow
• 2015 Mangue Sylla & the All-Star Drummers of Guinea - Dunnun Kan
• 2015 The New Appalachians - From the Mountaintop
• 2015 Powerhouse / Powerhouse / Wallace Roney - In an Ambient Way
• 2015 Kenny Barron / Mark Sherman - Interplay
• 2014 Alexis Cole - A Kiss In the Dark
• 2014 Jimmy Greene - Beautiful Life
• 2014 David Chesky - Jazz in the New Harmonic: Primal Scream
• 2014 Candido - The Master
• 2014 Bucky Pizzarelli - Three for All
• 2013 CC Coletti - Bring It on Home: Sings the American Roots of Zeppelin
• 2013 Jamey Haddad / Mark Sherman/ Lenny White - Explorations of Space and Time
• 2013 David Hazeltine - Impromptu
• 2013 David Chesky - Jazz in the New Harmonic
• 2013 David Chesky - The New York Rags
• 2012 Wycliffe Gordon - Dreams of New Orleans
• 2012 Amber Rubarth - Sessions from the 17th Ward
• 2011 David Chesky - Urbanicity; Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra; The New York Variations
• 2010 Various - Best of New York Sessions, Vol. 2
• 2010 Louise Rogers - Black Coffee
• 2010 Beat Kaestli - Invitation
• 2010 Xiomara Laugart - La Voz
• 2009 Monty Alexander - Calypso Blues: The Songs of Nat King Cole
• 2009 Jimmy Cobb - Jazz in the Key of Blue
• 2009 Jen Chapin - Revisions: The Songs of Stevie Wonder
• 2009 John Hammond - Rough & Tough
• 2008 George Colligan / Lenny White / Buster Williams / Steve Wilson - Hancock Island: The Music of Herbie Hancock
• 2008 Larry Coryell - Impressions: The New York Sessions
• 2008 Seamus Blake / Ari Hoenig / Mike Moreno / Sam Yahel - Jazz Side of the Moon: Music of Pink Floyd
• 2008 Paquito D'Rivera - Spice It Up! The Best of Paquito d'Rivera
• 2008 Monty Alexander - The Good Life: Monte Alexander Plays the Songs of Tony Bennett
• 2008 Various - The Ultimate Demonstration Disc, Vol. 2
• 2007 Various - Best of New York Sessions, Vol. 1
• 2007 Jimmy Cobb - Cobb's Corner
• 2007 John Hicks - On the Wings of an Eagle
• 2007 Various - Romance in Rio
• 2007 Javon Jackson - Sugar Hill: Music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
• 2007 David Hazeltine - The Jobim Songbook in New York
• 2007 Valerie Joyce - The Look of Love: Music of Burt Bacharach
• 2007 David Chesky - Urban Concertos
• 2006 Various - Chesky 20th Anniversary
• 2006 Various - Live from Studio A
• 2006 Hazeltine-Mraz Trio - Manhattan
• 2006 Billy Burnette - Memphis in Manhattan
• 2006 Nicholas Payton - Mysterious Shorter
• 2006 Christian McBride - New York Time
• 2006 Fred Hersch - Personal Favorites
• 2006 Carlos Franzetti - Songs for Lovers
• 2006 Badi Assad - The Badi Assad Collection: The Best of Badi
• 2006 Larry Coryell - Traffic
• 2006 Hank Jones - West of 5th
• 2006 Various - World's Greatest Audiophile Vocal Recordings
• 2006 Xiomara Laugart - Xiomara
• 2005 Babatunde Olatunji - Circle of Drums
• 2005 Area 31 - David Chesky: Area 31
• 2005 Victor Bailey / Larry Coryell / Lenny White - Electric
• 2005 Marta Gomez - Entre Cada Palabra
• 2005 Rachel Z - Grace
• 2005 Various - Jazz Latinas
• 2005 Valerie Joyce - New York Blue
• 2005 Various - Rockin' the Spirit: Piano Blues, Boogie & Spirituals
• 2005 Paquito D'Rivera - The Jazz Chamber Trio
• 2005 Carlos Franzetti - The Jazz Kamerata
• 2005 The Persuasions - The Persuasions Sing U2
• 2004 Carla Lother - 100 Lovers
• 2004 52nd Street Blues Project - Blues & Grass
• 2004 Marta Gomez - Cantos de Agua Dulce (Songs of the Sweet Water)
• 2004 David Chesky - Dr. Chesky's Magnificent, Fabulous, Absurd and Insane Musical 5.1 Surround Show
• 2004 Ana Caram - Hollywood Rio
• 2004 Hot Club Of 52nd Street - Hot Club of 52nd Street
• 2004 Candido & Graciela - Inolvidable
• 2004 Various - Night Songs She Sings
• 2004 Christy Baron - Retrospective
• 2004 The Body Acoustic - The Body Acoustic
• 2004 Bruckner Orchester Linz - The Essence of Viennese Music
• 2003 The Persuasions - A Cappella Dreams
• 2003 Ars Antiqua Austria - Biber, Schmelzer: Seventeenth Century Music and Dance from the Viennese Court
• 2003 Ron Carter / Rosa Passos - Entre Amigos
• 2003 Various - Jazz Sexy
• 2003 Bernhard Klee - Orchestral Spectacular
• 2003 Rebecca Pidgeon - Retrospective
• 2003 John Abercrombie / Badi Assad/ Larry Coryell - Three Guitars
• 2002 Ron Carter / Jimmy Cobb / George Coleman / Mike Stern - Four Generations of Miles: A Live Tribute to Miles
• 2002 Dennis Russell Davies - Gustav Holst: The Planets
• 2002 David Johansen & the Harry Smiths - Shaker
• 2002 Christy Baron - Take This Journey
• 2002 Caspar Richter - The Musical Goes Symphonic
• 2002 The Persuasions - The Persuasions Sing the Beatles
• 2002 Bernhard Klee - Wagner & Verdi: Great Opera Choruses
• 2001 Ana Caram - Blue Bossa
• 2001 The Conga Kings - Jazz Descargas
• 2001 Lee Konitz - Parallels
• 2001 Various - Singer Songwriters
• 2001 Bucky Pizzarelli - Swing Live
• 2001 Raul Jaurena - Tango Bar
• 2001 Sara K. - What Matters
• 2000 Various - Chesky 2K: Sampler
• 2000 David Chesky - Chesky: Psalms 4, 5 & 6
• 2000 Candido - Conga Kings
• 2000 Larry Coryell - Coryells
• 2000 David Chesky - The Agnostic
• 2000 David Johansen & the Harry Smiths - David Johansen & the Harry Smiths
• 2000 Chuck Mangione - Everything for Love
• 2000 Clark Terry - One on One
• 2000 Christy Baron - Steppin'
• 1999 Carla Lother - Ephemera
• 1999 Various - Jazz for a Literary Mind
• 1999 Sara K. - No Cover
• 1999 Chuck Mangione - The Feeling's Back
• 1999 Allison Brewster Franzetti - The Unknown Piazzolla
• 1999 Paquito D'Rivera - Tropicana Nights
• 1998 Rebecca Pidgeon - Four Marys
• 1998 Ars Antiqua Austria / Gunar Letzbor / St. Florianer Sängerknaben - Mozart: Grabmusik KV. 42; Galimathais musicum KV. 32
• 1998 Ana Caram - Postcards from Rio
• 1998 Jon Faddis - Remembrances
• 1998 Dave's True Story - Sex Without Bodies
• 1998 Dave's True Story - Sex Without Bodies
• 1998 Rebecca Pidgeon - The Four Marys
• 1997 Various - Classical Cats: A Children's Introduction to the Orchestra
• 1997 David Chesky - David Chesky: Three Psalms for String Orchestra
• 1997 Badi Assad - Echoes of Brazil
• 1997 Sara K. - Hobo
• 1997 Christy Baron - I Thought About You
• 1997 Livingston Taylor - Ink
• 1997 Babatunde Olatunji - Love Drum Talk
• 1997 Various - Stereo Review: Gold Stereo & Surround Set Up
• 1997 Various - The Best of Brasil
• 1997 John Basile - The Desmond Project
• 1997 Charles Gerhardt - Wagner: Orchestral Music
• 1997 Various - Women of Song
• 1996 Phil Woods - Astor & Elis
• 1996 Ars Antiqua Austria - Bach: Four Orchestral Suites
• 1996 Martin Sieghart - Franz Schmidt: Symphony No. 4
• 1996 Various - Guitar Collection
• 1996 Carlos Heredia - Gypsy Flamenco
• 1996 Joseph Flummerfelt / Westminster Choir - Lika As a Hart: Psalms & Spiritual Songs
• 1996 I Ching - Of the Marsh and the Moon
• 1996 John Pizzarelli - One Night with You
• 1996 Paquito D'Rivera - Portraits of Cuba
• 1996 Various - Tenth Anniversary Special Edition
• 1996 David Chesky - The Fantasies
• 1996 Rebecca Pidgeon - The New York Girls' Club
• 1995 Oregon - Beyond Words
• 1995 Ana Caram - Bossa Nova
• 1995 Benita Meshulam - Granados: Goyescas
• 1995 Various - Great American Composers
• 1995 Gary Schocker - Mozart: The Flute Quartets
• 1995 Ahn Trio - Paris Rio
• 1995 Badi Assad - Rhythms
• 1995 Various - Stereophile Test CD, Vol. 3
• 1995 Sara K. - Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin'
• 1995 Various - The Classical Collection
• 1995 Various - The Ultimate Demonstration Disc
• 1994 René Leibowitz - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 6 "Pastoral" & 8
• 1994 Jascha Horenstein - Brahms: Symphony No. 1; Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer Overture; Tannhäuser Bacchanale
• 1994 LaVerne Butler - Day Dreamin'
• 1994 Johnny Frigo - Debut of a Legend
• 1994 Fred Hersch - Fred Hersch Trio Plays...
• 1994 John Barbirolli - Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43
• 1994 Charles Gerhardt - Light Classics, Vol. 2
• 1994 Leny Andrade - Maiden Voyage
• 1994 Clark Terry - Portraits
• 1994 Earl Wild - Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2; The Isle Of The Dead
• 1994 Eddie Daniels - Real Time
• 1994 Badi Assad - Solo
• 1994 Various - The Best of Chesky Classics & Jazz and Audiophile Test Disk, Vol. 3
• 1994 Various - The French Collection
• 1994 Rebecca Pidgeon - The Raven
• 1993 Massimo Freccia / Rudolf Kempe - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; Richard Strauss: Don Juan
• 1993 Cephas & Wiggins - Bluesmen
• 1993 Earl Wild - Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1; Fauré: Ballade; Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
• 1993 Livingston Taylor - Good Friends
• 1993 Malcolm Sargent - Handel: Messiah
• 1993 Ana Caram - Maracana
• 1993 Peggy Lee - Moments Like This
• 1993 Sara K. - Play on Words
• 1993 Orquesta Nova - Salon New York
• 1993 Jascha Horenstein - Strauss: Waltzes, Vol. 2: The Return of Horenstein
• 1993 Various - Symphonic Music of Cesar Franck
• 1993 Various - Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite; Symphony No. 5
• 1993 Various - The German Album
• 1993 Bruce Dunlap - The Rhythm of Wings
• 1993 Tom Harrell - Upswing
• 1992 Various - A Night of Chesky Jazz Live at Town Hall: JVC Jazz Festival
• 1992 Bruce Dunlap - About Home
• 1992 Ana Caram - Amazonia
• 1992 René Leibowitz - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
• 1992 René Leibowitz - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7
• 1992 René Leibowitz - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
• 1992 Monty Alexander - Caribbean Circle
• 1992 Sara K. - Closer Than They Appear
• 1992 Fred Hersch - Dancing in the Dark
• 1992 National Philharmonic Orchestra - Hollywood Screen Classics
• 1992 Mongo Santamaria - Mambo Mongo
• 1992 LaVerne Butler - No Looking Back
• 1992 Earl Wild - Rachmaninov: Concerto No. 3; MacDowell: Concerto No. 2
• 1992 Lubambo/Rubello - Shades of Rio
• 1992 Jascha Horenstein - Strauss: Waltzes
• 1992 Various - The Best of Chesky Jazz, Vol. 2
• 1992 David Chesky - The Tangos and Dances
• 1992 Igor Kipnis - The Virtuoso Scarlatti
• 1992 Red Rodney - Then and Now
• 1992 Igor Kipnis - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Flute Concerto in D "Il Gardellino"; Harpsichord Concerto in A major
• 1991 Raymond Lewenthal - A Gershwin Concert
• 1991 René Leibowitz - A Portrait of France
• 1991 René Leibowitz - An Evening of Opera
• 1991 Kenny Rankin - Because of You
• 1991 Malcolm Frager / Erich Gruenberg - Beethoven: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra; Schumann: Concerto for Piano & Orchestra
• 1991 Earl Wild - Earl Wild plays Grieg, Säint-Saens & Liszt
• 1991 Fred Hersch - Forward Motion
• 1991 Gary Schocker - Gary Schocker Plays Bach, Handel, Telemann
• 1991 Paquito D'Rivera - Havana Cafe
• 1991 Clark Terry - Live at the Village Gate
• 1991 Orquesta Nova - Orquesta Nova
• 1991 Tom Harrell - Passages
• 1990 Gina Bachauer - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
• 1990 Herbie Mann - Caminho De Casa
• 1990 Various - Chesky Records Jazz Sampler & Audiophile Test Compact Disc, Vol. 1
• 1990 Clark Terry - Live at the Village Gate: Second Set
• 1990 John Pizzarelli - My Blue Heaven
• 1990 Natasha - Natasha
• 1990 Earl Wild - Rachmaninov: Concertos Nos. 1 & 4; Rhapsody, Op. 43
• 1990 Charles Gerhardt - Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite; Ravel: Bolero; Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy
• 1990 David Chesky - The New York Chorinhos
• 1989 David Chesky - Club de Sol
• 1989 Jascha Horenstein - Dvorák: Symphony No. 9; Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Siegfried-Idyll
• 1989 Phil Woods - Here's to My Lady
• 1989 Johnny Frigo - Live from Studio A in New York City
• 1989 Luiz Bonfá - Non-Stop to Brazil
• 1989 Paquito D'Rivera - Tico! Tico!
• 1988 Charles Gerhardt - Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 41 & 35; Haydn: Symphony No. 104
• 1988 Earl Wild - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
• 1988 Itzhak Perlman / Alfred Wallenstein - Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35
• 1988 Jascha Horenstein - Wagner: Bacchanale; Brahms: Symphony No. 1
• 1987 Charles Munch - Bizet: Symphony in C
• 1987 Fritz Reiner - Brahms: Symphony No. 4; Beethoven: Egmont Overture
• 1987 Earl Wild - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2; Isle of the Dead
• 1987 John Barbirolli - Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
• 1987 Ransom Wilson - Stravinsky: Histoire du soldat

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