He Turned Mario Music Into Two Grammy Wins - Why Am I Charlie Rosen

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What if the Super Mario Bros. theme, a 45-second loop built on the most rudimentary hardware imaginable, turned out to be a great piece of music all on its own? Greg sits down with Charlie Rosen, a Broadway music director, arranger, and two-time Grammy winner who grew up surrounded by his parents' instruments and went on to lead the 8-bit Big Band, a jazz orchestra devoted to video game music. They talk about the 'Bob Ross of music' job of coloring in a song, the thrill of the sitzprobe when a cast first hears the full orchestra, how a 22-year-old pitched a nightclub on a house big band, and why a Sega-versus-Nintendo debate says so much about how music makes us feel.

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