The Jazz Video Game Medley comes to a fiery conclusion with the its last movement, paying tribute to some of the baddest bosses and battle themes in gaming! Jazz metal, anyone? 🎷 Subscribe • • •
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Hoo boy, it feels pretty crazy to say that this suite is finished! I’m still so grateful to everyone involved who helped create this awesome series of videos. I can’t wait to make more big projects like this again! I’ve certainly learned a lot about myself through completing this project, both as an arranger and a person, and I think I’ve definitely grown, which is what I’m always striving to do with my channel.
This particular movement pays tribute to numerous wonderful battle and boss themes in video game music! This was actually the first movement I arranged, with Movement I being second, and Movement II being the last! In retrospect, the various themes of each movement sort of parallel with the various triforces! Movement I was courage, Movement II wisdom, and Movement III power. To top it all off, they were color coded appropriately!
During my time at Berklee, I’ve played in various recitals and ensembles. Of these recitals was my friend Yusuf’s (drummer and timpanist in this movement) senior recital, which was an awesome jazz + metal fusion. I decided to take inspiration from the jazz metal idea, and use that idea to create a menacing, dirty big band + strings arrangement. I am super happy with how it turned out. Some of the textures here are just so much better than I could have imagined during the time of arranging, including the big brass swell before the Pokémon Battle Theme kicks in, the trumpets growling into plunger mutes, and the juxtaposition of MEGALOVANIA and Gangplank Galleon! Again, I’m so glad that I was able to have so many live musicians join me for this project, as they really brought the music to life.
Now that the Jazz Video Game Medley is complete, I have a few more things to upload that are related to it! One of these will be a single video that has all three movements stitched together, with sheet music being displayed on screen. I’ll also be releasing a behind the scenes video showing different things that went into the process of creating this! Hope you’re all looking forward to it!
BIG BAND
Alto Sax 1 (Solo): Carla Restivo
Alto Sax 2 (Solo): Kenton Dick
Tenor Sax 1: Simon Breedlove
Tenor Sax 2: Maurice Soque
Baritone Sax: Roberto Prado
Trumpet 1: Lachie Day
Trumpet 2: Richard Stanmeyer
Trumpet 3: Jeremy Alvarez
Trumpet 4: Bastien Rieser
Trombone 1: Max Acree
Trombone 2: Auden Durant
Trombone 3: Ian Lazan
Bass Trombone: Ethan Santos
Tuba: Ryan Milford
Lead Guitar (Solo): Spiro Dussias
Rhythm Guitar: Joel Kent
Piano: Jon Sullivan
Bass: Devlin McDermott
Drums: Yusuf Roshd
Timpani: Yusuf Roshd
ORCHESTRAL WOODWINDS
Flute: Kristalis Sotomayor, Tomasso Annoni
Oboe: Brittany McCorriston
Clarinet: Laura Cuartas, Chris Chun
STRINGS
Violin (Solo): Emily Gelineau
Violin I: Jody Miller*, Brian Urra, Tania Mesa, Dana Zulpyharova
Violin II: Nisa Taufik*, Claudius Agrippa, Bengisu Gokce
Viola: Cecilia Cook*, Mels Wynne, Cecilia Vacanti
Cello: SungHa Hong*, Casey Murray, Caitlin Thomas
Double Bass: Will Figler
TECH
Head Engineers: Cristobal Cruz Garcia, Gustaf Claesson, Hayden Ticehurst
Assistant Engineers: Emanue Keller, Heeyeon Ko, Ben Fox, Tristan Maxwell Grazier, Aleksi Godard, Ivan Cheung, Alejandro Haddock, Robert Mantz, Chengcheng Tang
Booth Reader: Sabrina Scotti & Nicoletta Nomicou
Mix: Carlos Eiene
Mastering: Cristobal Cruz Garcia
Cinematography & Lighting: Peter Xiong & Mike Koch
Video Editing: Carlos Eiene
Recorded and Filmed in the Berklee College of Music’s Shames Family Scoring Studio and Production Suites
This is a non-commercial project. No revenue is generated from this video.
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