📣ALBUM 5 NOW AVAILABLE! 📣
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
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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!! watch video on watch page
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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 watch video on watch page
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SUPER MARIO PRAISE BREAK FULL VIDEO ON YOUTUBE!
Luigi lock the doors, nobodies leaving until we get 100 gold coins in the offering plate!! In this offering to the VGM community we humbly present this medley of some of Super Mario Bros. greatest melodies to help you gain entrance into the Mushroom Kingdom of heaven!! The tunes included are:
Super Mario Bros Theme (obviously)
Bob-Omb Battlefield from Super Mario 64
Gusty Garden Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy
Athletic Theme from Super Mario World
The princess might be in another castle, but the lord is in the house today! If HE has brought you to another level, go ahead and bless him!! No blue shell thrown against me shall prosper!!
ALBUM 5 DROPPING JULY 18th!
Live VGM arrangement speed run in July 17th at 12noon EST on YouTube!
🗓️ 2025 Tour Dates
Aug 30 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre
Oct 3 – London, UK – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire (UK debut!)
Nov 13 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues (Dallas debut!)
Dec 12 – Boston, MA – Berklee Performance Center
Dec 19 – Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern (LA debut!)
Dec 27 – New York, NY – Sony Hall
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One week till album 5!! “Orchestrator Emulator” will be out on all platforms July 18th!
To celebrate come hang with me LIVE here on YouTube July 17th at noon EST as I attempt a big band arrangement speed run of whatever song you the fans vote on! Voting link in bio
Long live video game music! Your band leader, Charlie
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Friends! I have some pretty wild news... I’ve been sitting on this news for a while, but so THRILLED to announce that I’m teaming up with ATLUS to arrange and bundled the “Persona 5 Special Big Band Concert” in Tokyo Japan this winter!!
The concert will feature my arrangements of the entire Persona 5 sound track featuring a hybrid band of members of The 8-Bit Big Band and also an incredible group of some of Tokyo’s best Jazz musicians assembled by trumpet legend Eric Miyashiro, and also featuring the incredible vocalist from the original sound track Lyn Inaizumi
If you live in Japan, happen to be in Japan, or love Persona 5 enough to travel to Japan the first week of December, you will not be disappointed! It’s going to be an incredible moment for video game music Jazz! Tickets here (in Japanese of course)
www.ticketport.co.jp/lp/persona5_bigband/
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Friends! To celebrate the release of our newest album "Orchestrator Emulator" (dropping July 18th on all streaming platforms), I hope you'll join me and the 8bbb community on July 17th at 12 noon EST as I live stream from scratch a brand new VGM Big Band arrangement that will be decided by popular vote! As I try and speed run an arrangement from start to finish I'll be answering questions about talking about my process along the way to hopefully shed some light on how this all works. PLEASE VOTE FOR THE SONG YOU WANT ME TO ARRANGE HERE!
poll.ly/S2tEFfIBmfP3fghzWG6q
Which ever song has the most votes by July 16th will be arranged live on stream!!
Hope to see you all there, long live video game music,
Your friendly neighborhood band leader Charlie Rosen
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Friends!! HUGE NEWS for this year's 8BBB Live shows!! We’re hitting some cross country cities in the US, and finally heading across the pond to the UK! Let’s gooo international large ensemble VGM Jazz magic!! 🌍
🗓️ 2025 Tour Dates
* Aug 30 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre
* Oct 3 – London, UK – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire (UK debut!)
* Nov 13 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues (Dallas debut!)
* Dec 12 – Boston, MA – Berklee Performance Center
* Dec 19 – Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern (LA debut!)
* Dec 27 – New York, NY – Sony Hall
📣 TICKETS:
Sign up now for pre-sale access and ticket updates at
www.mgplive.com/the-8-bit-big-band
Hopefully see you all there!!
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Six years ago this very day we made our live debut in NYC at the beautiful but sadly now defunct venue SubCulture, can't believe it's already been 6 years of live shows!! All the live shows are great but the vibe at this very first one ever was really something special, it was a way for us to test the waters and see if people would really show up for video game music Jazz concerts and the experiment was a HUGE SUCCESS!! Long live video game music!! Happy VGM anniversary all! watch video on watch page
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📣ALBUM 5 COMING JULY 18th!! 📣
The time has come!! Thrilled to announce that The 8-Bit Big Band’s 5th full length album “Orchestrator Emulator” will be dropping on July 18th 2025 on streaming/Bandcamp!! Full track list and other announcements to follow 👀
Can’t wait for you all to hear it, long live video game music!! Your bandleader, Charlie
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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 :)