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8-Bit Big Band
The 8-Bit Big Band is a Jazz orchestra, jazz and pops orchestra directed by Charlie Rosen (musician), Charlie Rosen that specializes in jazz arrangements of video game music. The band won the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella in 2022 and were nominated for Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals, Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals in 2024. History The 8-Bit Big Band was founded in 2017 by Charlie Rosen (musician), Charlie Rosen, who also serves as the Music director, director. He did not initially anticipate that the project would be successful in the long term, but it received a positive community response online– particularly on YouTube, which he likened to the "Tin Pan Alley of video game music". Primarily based in New York City, the band plays arrangements of popular video game songs– which Rosen refers to as "the great video game songbook"– from titles such as ''Mario Kart 64''(1996) and ''The Legend of Zelda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
