The 8-Bit Big Band
The 8-Bit Big Band is a full sized Jazz/pops orchestra that formed to celebrate and realize some of the best musical themes written from various video games from all consoles! The orchestra ranges from 25 members all the way to 65 members depending on the music, and draws from some of most sought after musicians from New York City, and around the world.
Thanks for watching and helping us celebrate this awesome music :)
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In my continued journey to highlight all the great arrangers out there check this out!! Some really spectacular brass arranging here with some super cool and oddball brass choices! Muted flugel?? Extra long mellophone?? Strange trombones with upward facing bells?? REHARM? Amazing arrangement!!
4 days ago | [YT] | 235
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HOLY SHIT THEY DID IT. Everybody check out this video of the 2025 UWEC Jazz 1 Ensemble daring to perform probably the hardest thing I've ever arranged... and absolutely CRUSHING IT! Well done all!! For those of you that don't play an instrument, this arrangement is fiendishly difficult and I never intended for anybody to ever play it live, but boy was I wrong!! Absolutely smoking!!!!
5 days ago | [YT] | 423
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MEGALOVANIA aka Sans Against the Machine FULL VIDEO NOW ON YOUTUBE đź’€
We got some extra heavy brass hardware for this one including 3 Bass Trombones, Tuba, Bass Sax, and the elusive low brass instrument known as the Cimbasso for EXTRA heavy brass hardware! Hope you enjoy!!
1 week ago | [YT] | 239
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400k SUBS🥹 The VGM Jazz takeover continues!! Thank you so much everyone for 400k subscribers on YouTube! So thrilled to be finding and connecting with fans of this music, and thanks to everyone who has listened and supported us over the years :) see you at 500k!! Long live video game music! Your band leader, Charlie Rosen
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 821
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Tokyo Daylight ft. Andy Arthur Smith! đźŽ
We're back with another hit from the incredible Persona 5 sound track! This time featuring the incredible talent of vocal scat singing sharpshooter phenom Andy Arthur Smith! I wanted to feature his pitch perfect vocal stylings on this amazing theme that perfectly captures the excitement of wandering around Shibuya as a high school student by day, and a metaphysical crime fighting gang by night. Hope you enjoy!
3 weeks ago | [YT] | 206
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Kass’s Theme Salsa Big Band Version! 🔥
That’s right, we’re back with yet another cover of Kass’s Theme! I loved this theme so much I just couldn’t resist arranging it in not just one but TWO different styles on the 5th album. Full video is now on YouTube! Hope you enjoy!
1 month ago | [YT] | 115
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Casino Night Zone from Sonic 2! 🦔
Sonic goes to Vegas!! Funny how the first few chord changes of this song are basically the Jazz standard “All of Me”.. basically screaming to get the swingin royal treatment. In an alternate universe I would totally buy tickets to see The Chaotix Live at the Sands Hotel 1966
2 months ago | [YT] | 111
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đź“ŁALBUM 5 NOW AVAILABLE! đź“Ł
Long live The Great Video Game Songbook! Our 5th album “Orchestrator Emulator” is now available on all streaming platforms and BandCamp! I hope you all enjoy listening to it as much as we all on Team 8BBB enjoyed creating it!! Thanks so much in advance, and if you like the album help us spread the word. Much love, your band leader, Charlie Rosen
3 months ago | [YT] | 165
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Alright everyone the time is now, going LIVE in 10 minutes to arrange a big band VGM tune from scratch, come chime in with arranging ideas and questions!! I've never done this with anyone watching so let's see what happens!!
3 months ago | [YT] | 52
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Going LIVE tomorrow at 12pm EST to attempt to speed run a big band arrangement from scratch to celebrate album 5! Come hang and get a glimpse inside the process! Light a candle to the arranging ancestors to give me speed and inspiration I've never done this publicly before haha
3 months ago | [YT] | 107
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