The 8-bit Big Band at Berklee Performance Center

The 8-Bit Big Band is a Grammy Award-winning contemporary symphonic Jazz orchestra created to celebrate and reimagine video game music’s most beloved hits, rearranged in exciting and creative new ways in order push the envelope of how they experience the music from these legendary soundtracks as a standalone body of musical work.Formed in 2017 with the release of their debut album Press Start followed by their sophomore album Choose Your Character in 2018, their Grammy Award-winning 3rd album Backwards Compatible in 2022, and their fourth album Game Changer in 2023. Since the inception of the band, 8BBB has garnered an online following aggregating millions of views on YouTube, and hundreds of thousands of subscribers, followers, and listeners across the globe, selling out concert venues across the U.S. The members of the 8-Bit Big Band come from all around the world, but most reside primarily in New York City and are some of the most highly sought after musicians and performers.The 8-Bit Big Band draws their music from some of the most beloved video game titles of all time, dedicating themselves to bringing large ensemble arranging into the presence of the internet and gaming era while giving the music from these games the same professional treatment in arranging, performance, and production that has gone hand in hand with the large symphonic studio jazz orchestras of the past. The band’s vocabulary ranges from the classic big band writing styles of the past, through the timeline of music’s evolution, and lands in this contemporary and eclectic, no-holds-barred musical listening experience containing influences across genre and time....

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The 8-Bit Big Band is a Grammy Award-winning contemporary symphonic Jazz orchestra created to celebrate and reimagine video game music’s most beloved hits, rearranged in exciting and creative new ways in order push the envelope of how they experience the music from these legendary soundtracks as a standalone body of musical work.Formed in 2017 with the release of their debut album Press Start followed by their sophomore album Choose Your Character in 2018, their Grammy Award-winning 3rd album Backwards Compatible in 2022, and their fourth album Game Changer in 2023. Since the inception of the band, 8BBB has garnered an online following aggregating millions of views on YouTube, and hundreds of thousands of subscribers, followers, and listeners across the globe, selling out concert venues across the U.S. The members of the 8-Bit Big Band come from all around the world, but most reside primarily in New York City and are some of the most highly sought after musicians and performers.The 8-Bit Big Band draws their music from some of the most beloved video game titles of all time, dedicating themselves to bringing large ensemble arranging into the presence of the internet and gaming era while giving the music from these games the same professional treatment in arranging, performance, and production that has gone hand in hand with the large symphonic studio jazz orchestras of the past. The band’s vocabulary ranges from the classic big band writing styles of the past, through the timeline of music’s evolution, and lands in this contemporary and eclectic, no-holds-barred musical listening experience containing influences across genre and time.
 
 
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