""This still is, I guess, a side project," Rosen says to me over Zoom. "Which seems reductive now to say at this point, because it is very much part of my life in a big way. But it started out as a side project tangential to my main career, which is working on Broadway musicals and orchestrating them, arranging them, conducting them.""
""I unknowingly saw Rosen perform at his "main job" in the summer of 2019. In addition to jazz, I'm also fond of Broadway musicals, and Rosen played guitar in the pit orchestra for Be More Chill, a show with music he orchestrated and arranged. The soundtrack has clear video game influence ( there's an entire number called "Two-Player Game"), but Rosen's video game hobby didn't fully bleed into his professional life until a fateful trip to Japan.""
Charlie Rosen leads The 8-Bit Big Band, a large ensemble that performs elaborate jazzy covers of video game music and won a 2022 Grammy for Meta Knight's Revenge. Rosen maintains a primary career orchestrating, arranging, and conducting Broadway musicals, and he still considers the band a side project despite its prominence. Rosen performed guitar in the pit orchestra for Be More Chill, a show with game-influenced music. Rosen's interest in video games and their music intersected with his professional life after experiences in Japan, where a shamisen and koto lesson led to noticing a Ganbare Goemon N64 game.
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