define music producer
A record producer (or music producer) has a very broad role in overseeing and managing the recording (i.e. production) of a band or performer's music.
Burgess quotes George Martin, the Beatles' executive producer, as saying that a music producer is like a movie producer and director rolled into one: A record producer is the designer -- not in the sense of creating the actual work itself, but he stages the show and presents it to the world.