Norman Chesky is a music entrepreneur and executive producer of two Grammy Award winning albums. He is the co-founder and co-owner of Manhattan Production Music and Chesky Records. Chesky also co-founded HDtracks, a music download service. He was a Trustee of the Recording Academy and is a co-founding member of the Production Music Association (PMA).
Career Chesky co-founded and co-owns Manhattan Production Music. He served as a Trustee of the Recording Academy from 2002 to 2007.
Chesky Records In 1986, Norman Chesky and his brother, David Chesky, co-founded Chesky Records. Norman Chesky serves as the president of the record label. 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. Norman Chesky was the executive producer of Portraits of Cuba and Tropicana Nights, two Grammy Award winning albums under Chesky Records. In 2016, Chesky co-produced the critically acclaimed Jazz debut of Macy Gray, Stripped.
Production Music Association Norman Chesky became a co-founding member of the Production Music Association in 1997. 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.
HDtracks Norman Chesky and David Chesky co-founded HDtracks, a high-resolution music download store in 2008. According to Audioholics, HDtracks is the world's first high resolution digital music site to offer DRM-free music in multiple formats. Norman Chesky serves HDtracks' president.
Discography
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 [Chesky] 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 [Hybrid] 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 [Chesky] 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 [Video] 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 [Video] 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 [Chesky] 1997 John Basile - The Desmond Project 1997 Charles Gerhardt - Wagner: Orchestral Music 1997 Various - Women of Song [Chesky] 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 [Chesky] 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