LLP Celebrates Three Wins at the 64th Annual GRAMMY® Awards Best Jazz Instrumental Album Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette Skyline (5Passion) Best Arrangement, Instrument & A Capella Charlie Rosen and Jake Silverman “Meta Knight’s Revenge” (Backwards Compatible) Best Album Notes Ricky Riccardi ‘The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia and RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-66’ (Mosaic)
Charlie Rosen and Jake Silverman Celebrate GRAMMY® Nomination for Arrangement “Meta Knight’s Revenge” on The 8-Bit Big Band’s Backwards Compatible “Meta Knight’s Revenge” is nominated for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella at the 64th GRAMMY® Awards New York, NY – The 8-Bit Big Band’s January 2021 release, Backwards Compatible has received a GRAMMY® Nomination … Read More
By Ed Nightingale, EuroGamer Kirby, Nintendo’s pink ball mascot, may be about to suck up a win at the Grammy Awards. Read more here.
GRAMMY NEWS: Eight LLP Clients Earn GRAMMY® Nods Rachel Eckroth, The Baylor Project, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Carlos Henriquez, Bill O’Connell (Richard Baratta), Kenny Barron (Gerry Gibbs), Charlie Rosen (The 8-Bit Big Band) & Ricky Riccardi (Louis Armstrong) are among those nominated for the 64th Annual GRAMMY® Awards New York, NY – On Tuesday, November 23 at … Read More
By George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly Ready for the Great Video Game Songbook? The 8-Bit Big Band is an orchestra ranging anywhere from 30-65 musicians. They take the themes from their collection of video games and put them into a jazz environment. It’s weird, but it works! Read more here.
By Jack Bowers, All About Jazz It’s about time a big band turned its gaze to and focused its attention on the many memorable songs and melodies spawned by—video games? While it’s true these make-believe themes may brook no comparison to Rodgers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, the Gershwin brothers, Cole Porter or even Neil Diamond, … Read More
By Gordon Jack, Jazz Journal Charlie Rosen’s 8-Bit Big Band explores what the press-release calls “The Great Video Game Songbook” on this, their third release. The ensemble is essentially a jazz/pops orchestra featuring over 70 of New York’s finest interpreting what is apparently “Some of the world’s most popular video game music … melodies that … Read More
By Gordon Jack, Jazz Journal Charlie Rosen’s 8-Bit Big Band explores what the press-release calls “The Great Video Game Songbook” on this, their third release. The ensemble is essentially a jazz/pops orchestra featuring over 70 of New York’s finest interpreting what is apparently “Some of the world’s most popular video game music … melodies that … Read More
By Ross Boissoneau, Something Else! Then there’s the disc from the 8-Bit Big Band: Released on Jan. 8, Backwards Compatible explores the further reaches of the so-called Great Video Game Songbook. The third such album from Tony-nominated Charlie Rosen, his inspiration is some of the most beloved video game franchises of all time: Sonic the … Read More
by Delarue, Lucid Culture The 8-Bit Big Band are one of the most improbably successful brands in music. They own the franchise on lavishly orchestrated, jazz-oriented arrangements of video game themes. They have more of a following in the video game world than in jazz circles, maybe because much of what they play is closer to action … Read More
