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).
Chesky co-founded and co-owns Manhattan Production Music. He served as a Trustee of the Recording Academy from 2002 to 2007.
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.
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.
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.
1989 Paquito D'Rivera - Tico! Tico!1989 Luiz Bonfá - Non-Stop To Brazil1989 Clark Terry - Portraits1989 Phil Woods with Tommy Flanagan, George Mraz, Kenny Washington - Here's To My Lady1991 Phil Woods - The Little Big Band: Real Life1992 Paquito D'Rivera – Havana Cafe1992 Igor Stravinsky/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra /Oscar Danon - Petrouchka1993 Mongo Santamaria And Various - Mambo Mongo1994 Sara K. – Play On Words1994 Leny Andrade Featuring Fred Hersch - Maiden Voyage1994 Astor Piazzolla – The Central Park Concert1995 Sara K. – Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin'1995 Clark Terry – The Second Set - Recorded Live At The Village Gate1996 Carlos Heredia – Gypsy Flamenco1996 Rebecca Pidgeon – The New York Girls Club1997 Livingston Taylor– Ink1998 Rebecca Pidgeon – Four Marys1999 Sara K. – No Cover1999 Chuck Mangione – The Feeling's Back2000 Chuck Mangione – Everything For Love2000 McCoy Tyner Quartet – New York Reunion2000 David Johansen And The Harry Smiths – David Johansen And The Harry Smiths2000 Giovanni Hidalgo, Candido, Patato Valdes – The Conga Kings2001 Lee Konitz – Parallels2001 Bucky Pizzarelli – Swing Live2001 Sara K. – What Matters2002 George Coleman, Mike Stern, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb – 4 Generations Of Miles2003 Larry Coryell, Badi Assad, John Abercrombie – Three Guitars2003 John Pizzarelli – My Blue Heaven2005 Rosa Passos & Ron Carter – Entre Amigos2005 Carlos Franzetti – The Jazz Kamerata2005 David Chesky, Area 31 (2) – Concerto For Violon And Orchestra / The Girl From Guatemala / Concerto For Flute And Orchestra2005 Babatunde Olatunji – Circle Of Drums2005 Paquito D'Rivera – The Jazz Chamber Trio2006 David Hazeltine-George Mraz Trio With Billy Drummond – Manhattan2007 The Jimmy Cobb Quartet – Cobb's Corner2008 Sam Yahel, Ari Hoenig, Mike Moreno, Seamus Blake – Jazz Side Of The Moon2009 Jen Chapin – Revisions2012 Dr. Chesky – Dr. Chesky's Sensational, Fantastic, And Simply Amazing Binaural Sound ShowJohn Pizzarelli– One Night With YouVarious – The Ultimate Demonstration Disc
