The Blueshift Big Band, founded in 2017 by drummer Joel Baer and guitarist Chris Parsons, performs love covers of videogame themes, drawing from the history of jazz standards, blues, and the Great American Songbook.

Record label iam8bit has published "Joystick Jazz: The Blueshift Big Band Plays Iconic Video Game Hits Vinyl Soundtrack," a compilation of familiar tunes from Ocarina of Time, Banjo-Kazooie, Sonic the Hedgehog, and more.

"Joystick Jazz" is also available for shipping from distributor PixelCrib in Australia. The digital release is available for streaming on YouTube Music, Spotify, and Apple Music.


From the product page:

Seriously, these musicians are smile-inducingly good, performing familiar tunes from Ocarina of Time, Banjo-Kazooie, Sonic the Hedgehog, and more, with a decidedly magical moxie, as if from a bygone era, before video games even existed.

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Joystick Jazz: The Blueshift Big Band Plays Iconic Video Game Hits Vinyl Soundtrack - Apple Music / YouTube Music

Hear tracks from titles like Ocarina of Time, Banjo-Kazooie, Sonic the Hedgehog, and more, all reimagined into toe-tappin' jazzy classics 🎷🎶

It's Joystick Jazz: The Blueshift Big Band Plays Iconic Video Game Hits Vinyl Soundtrack! https://t.co/B53kL28Ggc pic.twitter.com/uGpFQUna6i

— iam8bit (@iam8bit) January 27, 2024