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 Brazil
1989 Clark Terry - Portraits
1989 Phil Woods with Tommy Flanagan, George Mraz, Kenny Washington - Here's To My Lady
1991 Phil Woods - The Little Big Band: Real Life
1992 Paquito D'Rivera – Havana Cafe
1992 Igor Stravinsky/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra /Oscar Danon - Petrouchka
1993 Mongo Santamaria And Various - Mambo Mongo
1994 Sara K. – Play On Words
1994 Leny Andrade Featuring Fred Hersch - Maiden Voyage
1994 Astor Piazzolla – The Central Park Concert
1995 Sara K. – Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin'
1995 Clark Terry – The Second Set - Recorded Live At The Village Gate
1996 Carlos Heredia – Gypsy Flamenco
1996 Rebecca Pidgeon – The New York Girls Club
1997 Livingston Taylor– Ink
1998 Rebecca Pidgeon – Four Marys
1999 Sara K. – No Cover
1999 Chuck Mangione – The Feeling's Back
2000 Chuck Mangione – Everything For Love
2000 McCoy Tyner Quartet – New York Reunion
2000 David Johansen And The Harry Smiths – David Johansen And The Harry Smiths
2000 Giovanni Hidalgo, Candido, Patato Valdes – The Conga Kings
2001 Lee Konitz – Parallels
2001 Bucky Pizzarelli – Swing Live
2001 Sara K. – What Matters
2002 George Coleman, Mike Stern, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb – 4 Generations Of Miles
2003 Larry Coryell, Badi Assad, John Abercrombie – Three Guitars
2003 John Pizzarelli – My Blue Heaven
2005 Rosa Passos & Ron Carter – Entre Amigos
2005 Carlos Franzetti – The Jazz Kamerata
2005 David Chesky, Area 31 (2) – Concerto For Violon And Orchestra / The Girl From Guatemala / Concerto For Flute And Orchestra
2005 Babatunde Olatunji – Circle Of Drums
2005 Paquito D'Rivera – The Jazz Chamber Trio
2006 David Hazeltine-George Mraz Trio With Billy Drummond – Manhattan
2007 The Jimmy Cobb Quartet – Cobb's Corner
2008 Sam Yahel, Ari Hoenig, Mike Moreno, Seamus Blake – Jazz Side Of The Moon
2009 Jen Chapin – Revisions
2012 Dr. Chesky – Dr. Chesky's Sensational, Fantastic, And Simply Amazing Binaural Sound Show
John Pizzarelli– One Night With You
Various – The Ultimate Demonstration Disc
