Chesky Records

Last updated
Chesky Records
Chesky Records.jpg
Founded1978 (1978)
Founder David Chesky
Norman Chesky
Distributor(s) E1 Music
GenreVarious
Country of originU.S.
LocationNew York, New York
Official website www.chesky.com

Chesky Records is a record company and label founded in 1978 by brothers David and Norman Chesky. [1] [2] The company produces high-definition recordings of music in a variety of genres, including jazz, classical, pop, R&B, folk and world/ethnic. [1] [3] [4] Chesky artists include McCoy Tyner, Herbie Mann, David Johansen and the Harry Smiths, Joe Henderson, Macy Gray, Chuck Mangione, Paquito D'Rivera, Ron Carter, Larry Coryell, John Pizzarelli, Bucky Pizzarelli, Babatunde Olatunji, Ana Caram, and Rebecca Pidgeon. [5] [6]

Contents

Chesky Records also offers binaural recordings, which seeks to replicate 3-D stereo sound so that the recording sounds as if the listener is in the same room with the musicians. [7] They capture this sound using dummy head recording. [7] For its recordings, Chesky Records uses acoustically vibrant spaces, including the Hirsch Center in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and St. Paul the Apostle Church located in Manhattan. [7]

The company has a mastering studio in New York City, New York. [1]

History

Studio musician and composer David Chesky founded Chesky Records with his brother Norman in 1978. They began the label to preserve the sound of live-in-the studio recordings, without overdubbing original records. In 1990, they switched from recording in studios to recording in churches. [2] One of the company's first attempts at improving sound quality was the re-issue of classical pianist Earl Wild's recordings of Rachmaninoff for Reader's Digest . [8] [9]

In 1990, Chesky Records released its Jazz Sampler & Audiophile Test Compact Disc, with the first nine tracks devoted to music and the remaining twenty devoted to listening and technical tests for headphones and loud speakers. [10] Other test discs include Dr. Chesky's Sensational, Fantastic, and Simply Amazing Binaural Sound Show and the Ultimate Demo Disc. [5]

In 2007, David and Norman Chesky also started an audiophile music download website called HDtracks. HDtracks allows customers to download high-resolution versions of albums in numerous formats (FLAC, AIFF). [11] The site contains many varied artists and labels. [12] In 2012, Crosby, Stills, and Nash announced that they would be releasing HD versions of its first three albums through HDtracks, and the company also released remastered titles from the Blue Note label, including John Coltrane's Blue Train , Eric Dolphy's Out To Lunch , Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage , Wayne Shorter's Speak No Evil , Horace Silver's Song for My Father and Larry Young's Unity . [13] [14] Other notable artists include Carole King, Janis Joplin, Michael Jackson, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan.

In 2011, Chesky Records incorporated High Resolution Technology in their label [15] and introduced binaural recordings. [2] [16] The Binaural+ masters are captured in high-resolution (24-bit/192 kHz) sound using a binaural dummy head nicknamed "Lars". [7] David Chesky collaborated with Princeton professor Edgar Y. Choueiri to begin producing binaural recordings. [17] The purpose of the technology is to capture three-dimensional sound and imaging.

In 2016, Chesky Records released the critically acclaimed jazz debut of Macy Gray, Stripped , which debuted No. 3 on the Billboard Jazz Charts. [18] The label also released the debut album from City of the Sun, which debuted No. 12 on the Billboard Jazz Charts, would go on to garner over 17 million album streams on Spotify and peak at No. 2 on the Spotify US Viral 50. [19] [20]

In 2018, Casey Abrams and Meiko signed with Chesky Records. Abrams' debut album for the label, Put a Spell on You , hit #5 on the Billboard Jazz Charts, [21] and Meiko hit #23 on the Billboard Folk Charts with Playing Favorites. [22]

In 2019, Anna Nalick signed with Chesky Records and released her label debut The Blackest Crow that December. [23]

Chesky Records uses custom recording equipment and experiments with recording techniques and formats. [8] [24]

Artists

Awards and recognition

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Macy Gray</span> American singer (born 1967)

Natalie Renée McIntyre, known by her stage name Macy Gray, is an American R&B and soul singer and actress. She is known for her distinctive raspy voice and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arturo Sandoval</span> American jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer

Arturo Sandoval is a Cuban-American jazz trumpeter, pianist, and composer. While living in his native Cuba, Sandoval was influenced by jazz musicians Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie. In 1977 he met Gillespie, who became his friend and mentor and helped him defect from Cuba while on tour with the United Nations Orchestra. Sandoval became an American naturalized citizen in 1998. His life was the subject of the film For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000) starring Andy García.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Meiko (American singer)</span> American singer-songwriter

Meiko is an American singer-songwriter residing in London, England. She independently released a self-titled album on September 1, 2007. All of the tracks from the LP have been featured in major network TV shows. Her second full-length, titled The Bright Side, was released through Fantasy Records on May 15, 2012, and a single from the album, "Stuck On You", reached No. 1 on the combined Japanese AirPlay Chart and No. 1 on the International Chart in Japan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michel Camilo</span> Dominican pianist and composer

Michel Camilo is a Grammy-award winning pianist and composer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He specializes in jazz, Latin and classical piano work. Camilo lists some of his main influences as Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, and Art Tatum.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paquito D'Rivera</span> Cuban saxophonist, clarinetist and composer

Francisco de Jesús Rivera Figueras, known as Paquito D'Rivera, is a Cuban-American alto saxophonist, clarinetist and composer. He was a member of the Cuban songo band Irakere and, since the 1980s, he has established himself as a bandleader in the United States. His smooth saxophone tone and his frequent combination of Latin jazz and classical music have become his trademarks.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pablo Ziegler</span> Argentine composer

Pablo Ziegler is an Argentine composer, pianist, arranger based in New York City. He is currently the leading exponent of nuevo tango, thanks to the skills and reputation he gathered while working extensively as Ástor Piazzolla's regular pianist from 1978 until the maestro's retirement for health reasons in 1989. During their collaboration, they performed with Milva, Placido Domingo, Gary Burton among others. He played with Piazzolla's re-formed Conjunto 9 in 1983 for his Teatro Colón concert with the Buenos Aires Philharmonic. In 1985 Ziegler composed the music for the film Adios Roberto, and in 1990, he established the New Tango Quartet.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Romero Lubambo</span> Brazilian jazz guitarist

Romero Lubambo is a Brazilian jazz guitarist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chano Domínguez</span> Spanish jazz musician

Chano Domínguez is a Spanish Latin jazz, post bop and flamenco pianist. Dominguez has released over 20 albums as a bandleader, and collaborated extensively with other jazz artists including Paquito D’Rivera, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Joe Lovano, Chucho Valdés, Martiro, and Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, He performs his own original compositions, as well as the music of Harold Arlen, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and the Spanish classical composer Joaquín Rodrigo. He was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2012 for his album Flamenco Sketches on the Blue Note label.

Bob Katz is an American audio mastering engineer and author of a popular book on audio mastering. Katz has mastered three Grammy Award–winning albums and one nominated album. Projects he has worked on have received Grammys and acclaim from audiophiles, and his book on mastering is considered by some to be the "definitive work on mastering".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carlos Franzetti</span> American composer (born 1948)

Carlos Alberto Franzetti is a composer and arranger from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fernando Otero</span> Musical artist

Fernando Otero is a Grammy-award-winning Argentine pianist, vocalist, and composer.

Steven Miller is an American record producer and executive. He is best known for his association with Windham Hill Records, where his ambient sound helped create notable instrumental recordings such as Michael Hedges’ Aerial Boundaries, Mark Isham’s Vapor Drawings and George Winston’s December.

Heads Up International is a jazz record label that was formed in Cleveland, Ohio. It was bought by the Concord Music Group in 2005.

Larry Rosen was an American entrepreneur, producer, musician, and recording engineer.

The Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album is an honor presented annually at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and creates a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally. The award has been given to artists since the 1st Latin Grammy Awards in 2000 for vocal or instrumental albums containing more than half of its playing time of newly recorded material in Spanish or Portuguese. Latin jazz is a mixture of musical genres, including Afro-Caribbean and Pan-American rhythms with the harmonic structure of jazz. Other jazz genres may also be considered for inclusion by the Jazz Committee.

HDtracks is a high-resolution digital music store offering DRM-free music in multiple formats as well as cover art with audio CD-quality and high-definition audio master recording quality download selections.

<i>Brazilian Dreams</i> 2002 live album by Paquito DRivera featuring New York Voices and Claudio Roditi

Brazilian Dreams is a live album by Cuban jazz performer Paquito D'Rivera. It was recorded at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, between April 26 and 29, 2001, and released by MCG Jazz on August 27, 2002. The album features guest performances by the American vocal group New York Voices and trumpeter Claudio Roditi. In the United States, it peaked at number 22 on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart.

<i>Panamericana Suite</i> 2010 live album by Paquito DRivera

Panamericana Suite is a live album by Cuban jazz performer Paquito D'Rivera. It was released by MCG Jazz on November 2, 2010. The album was produced by Jay and Marty Ashby, and features eight songs performed with several guest performers such as Brenda Feliciano, Dave Samuels and Diego Urcola, among others. Recorded live at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in April 2008, the album earned the Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album.

David Chesky is an American pianist, composer, producer, arranger, and co-founder of the independent, audiophile label Chesky Records. He is also co-founder and CEO of HDtracks, an online music store that sells high-resolution digital music.

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).

References

  1. 1 2 3 Nels Ferre (November 2009). "A Few Moments With David Chesky". Enjoy the Music. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 Steve Guttenberg (May 25, 2012). "The making of "Dr Chesky's Sensational, Fantastic, and Simply Amazing Binaural Sound Show!"". Inner Fidelity. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Chesky Records". HDTracks. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Biography". David Chesky. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  5. 1 2 "Chesky Records". Discogs. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Herbie Mann". AllMusic. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Jason Victor Serinus (July 31, 2012). "Chesky Goes Binaural". Stereophile. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  8. 1 2 Blair Jackson (February 1, 2005). "David Chesky: Eclectic Producer, Outspoken Audiophile". Mix Magazine. Archived from the original on October 24, 2006. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  9. ↑ "David Chesky: A Portrait of the Artist as His Own Man Page 2". Stereophile. 30 October 2005. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  10. ↑ "Chesky Records Jazz Sampler & Audiophile Test Compact Disc, Vol. 1". All Music. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  11. ↑ "HDTracks". HDTracks. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  12. ↑ Julie Hill. "David Chesky & HD Tracks". The Berklee Groove. Archived from the original on October 14, 2013. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  13. ↑ Jeff Tamarkin (July 26, 2012). "Blue Note Releases Six Classics in High Definition Audio". Jazz Times. Archived from the original on May 5, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  14. ↑ "New (old) Blue Note on HDtracks". AudioStream. 17 June 2010. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  15. 1 2 "David Chesky nominated for a Grammy Award". Rockian Trading. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  16. ↑ "Two albums in one: Binaural & Soundfield". HDTracks. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  17. ↑ "David Chesky: "Dr. Chesky's Sensational Fantastic and Simply Amazing Binaural Sound Show!"". SoundStage! Access. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  18. ↑ "Macy Gray Chart History". Billboard. Billboard. Retrieved Jan 25, 2018.
  19. ↑ "City of the Sun Chart History". Billboard. Billboard. Retrieved Jan 25, 2018.
  20. ↑ Shirvell, Bridget (11 May 2016). "Fall in Love with the Acoustic Music of City of the Sun | Long Island Pulse Magazine". Long Island Pulse Magazine. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  21. ↑ "Casey Abrams Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
  22. ↑ "Meiko Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
  23. ↑ "The Blackest Crow - Anna Nalick | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
  24. ↑ "Matej Isak interview with David Chesky". Mono Stereo. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  25. 1 2 3 4 5 "Artists – Chesky Records". Chesky Records. Chesky Records. Retrieved Jan 25, 2018.
  26. 1 2 "Past Winners Search". Grammy.com. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  27. 1 2 "Complete List of Honors". Paquito D'Rivera. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  28. ↑ "Paquito D'Rivera – Portraits of Cuba". CD Universe. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  29. ↑ "World music pioneer Olatunji dead". CNN. April 13, 2003. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  30. ↑ "Love Drum Talk". CD Universe. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  31. ↑ "Paquito D'Rivera – Tropicana Nights". CD Universe. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  32. 1 2 Ellen Mallernee (December 7, 2007). "Baldwin Artist David Chesky Nominated for Grammy!". Gibson. Archived from the original on April 2, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  33. ↑ "48th Grammy Award Nominees, Best Engineered Album, Classical". Amazon. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  34. ↑ "Bebe Leads Latin Grammy Nominations". The American Society of Composers. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  35. ↑ "Complete list of 6th annual Latin Grammy nominations". USA Today. November 2, 2005. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  36. 1 2 Serinus, Jason Victor (July 24, 2015). "David Chesky Scores His Second IMA Award". New York. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  37. 1 2 "The 15th Independent Music Awards Nominees". Independent Music Awards. Music Resource Group LLC. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  38. 1 2 3 "The 17th Independent Music Awards Nominees". Independent Music Awards. Music Resource Group LLC. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.