Tifa's Theme (Jazz Waltz Big Band Version) ft. Chloe Rowlands (The 8-Bit Big Band)

One of the greatest video game music love themes of all time: Tifa's Theme from the legendary classic Final Fantasy 7 reimagined here in a Jazz waltz style featuring the truly incredible Chloe Rowlands on the Flugelhorn.

This beautiful theme encapsulates all of the emotion and feeling that video game music has to offer, and as soon as I wrote it I knew I wanted to feature Chloe's amazingly sensitive and dexterous playing to bring new life to this classic melody. Hope you enjoy!

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"The 8-Bit Big Band" is a 30-65 member Jazz/pops orchestra that formed to celebrate and realize some of the best themes from video game music from all consoles and eras arranged in a large ensemble Jazz/Pop/Rock setting!

Blending together timeless musical themes from Nintendo, Sega, Sony, and more then re-arranging them in genres and styles of all musical inspirations, The 8-Bit Big Band has members 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.

Band leader/Arranger/Orchestrated by:
@CRosenMusic

FULL CREDITS:

Flugelhorn Soloist - Chloe Rowlands

Alto Sax 1 - Andrew Gould
Alto Sax 2 - Josh Plotner
Tenor Sax 1 - Sam Dillon
Tenor Sax 2 - Zac Zinger
Bari Sax - Andrew Gutauskas

Trumpet 1 - Bryan Davis
Trumpet 2 - Jay Webb
Trumpet 3 - Chloe Rowlands
Trumpet 4 - Danny Jonokuchi

French Horn - Kyra Sims

Trombone 1 - Jimmy O'Connell
Trombone 2 - Mariel Bildsten
Trombone 3 - Sara Jacovino
Bass Trombone - Rebecca Patterson

Guitar - Alex Wintz
Bass - Bobby Wooten III
Piano - Natalie Tenenbaum
Drums - Jared Schonig

Violins - Lavinia Pavlish, Daniel Constant, Audrey Hayes, Lucy Voin, Alissa Jackman, Camelia Hartman, Tomoko Akaboshi, Caroline Drexler, Meitar Forkosh, Tiffany Weiss, Kevin Kuh, Tania Mesa

Violas - Laura Sacks, Will Marshall, Matthew Beaugé, Yumi Oshima

Celli - Susan Mandel, Sasha Ono, Jessica Wang

Harp - Liann Cline

Music by Nobuo Uematsu
Arranged/Produced by - Charlie Rosen
Engineered and Mixed by John Kilgore
Mastered by Alan Silverman at Arf Mastering
Shot and Edited by Halleloo Productions
Animations by SovanJedi (Twitter @sovanjedi)
Thumbnail art by @MikeKILLUZ

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[jackschooley]

This album is going to be absolutely killer

[carlmontinstrumentalmusic]

High school band director here. If you make these arrangements available for purchase you will sell more charts than Gordon Goodwin. We easily have a dozen Goodwin charts in our library and would purchase yours as well! I am certain there are legions of band directors who are in the same boat!

[Meepston]

OUT OF ALL OF THE SONGS TO FOLLOW UP POLLYANA, YOU NEED STOP HITTING MY HEART LIKE THIS 😭😭😭

[werdna]

When I was a child, “video game music” meant the defeat theme from Space Invaders.
These days, it is a sprawling field with a plethora of talented composers and musicians.
For some reason, this brings me so much joy. 🎉

[VZAAGE]

This gives me chills. Hopefully we'll see more FF7 music in the future.

[garrettaldridge]

You know, for a long time I thought Tifa’s theme would’ve sounded better with more energy, which I equated to being a little quicker with a different feel. I actually finished up a bossa nova version of it not too long ago to achieve this. But just like always you blow all of my preconceptions out of the water. You kept the piece slower but injected so much feel into it that it’s almost a completely different tune. I think I realize now that “energy” and tempo/feel are completely different too. Thank you so much, 8BBB, you all continue to inspire me to be a better musician.

[NigelTheMini]

That flugelhorn is smooth as silk! Chole nailed it!

[lorech.]

I’m only two minutes in and I’m actually in tears. A composition hasn’t affected me like this since… your Pollyanna cover, actually. You guys are killing it over there!

[afeathereddinosaur]

I have to say, this waltz version is so romantic. If a band started playing something based on this rendition in a wedding, no one would find it weird.

[eosborne]

Man, I’ve always believed that VGM is good, but the fact that some of the best musicians in the world think that it’s good enough to reinterpret and perform at such an incredibly high level is so validating. It’s like you’re grabbing the musical establishment by the shoulders and shaking them and saying PAY ATTENTION and then showing them everything I liked as a child, and it hits me in the feels in a way I wasn’t prepared for.

[nonsense]

Chloe's got such a warm tone. Perfect for Tifa's theme.

[PhazonMS]

The whole arrangement is absolutely lovely, but it's incredible how at 0:55 just a few notes can instantly make me smile and tear up a little bit. God I love video game music. So many tunes that can take me right back to so many incredible stories and fond memories. Epic battles, shocking twists, tender moments, lovable characters, devastating losses, and on and on.

[DiakosDelvin]

That really brought a lot of "Eyes on Me" feel out in the song occationally it almost sounded like a medley.

[Sean]

Man this is beautiful - Chloe's flugel playing is incredible!

[LeMelleKH]

Love that you pulled from the “Square Enix Jazz” arrangement and infused some of that!

[jonathansegrist]

The perfect gift to drop on Uematsu-sama's birthday. Another marvelous arrangement, bravo 8BBB!

[besapods]

Definitely gonna add this to my chill playlist

[javierramos]

VGM is so magical, and you guys are so insane, that I haven't played a single Final Fantasy game in my life, and somehow a felt so touched hearing this, and feeling nostalgia for something I don't even Know :')

[BrentDiskin]

There's something much more introspective and frankly, "grown up" about this latest slate of arrangements. This, like "Song of Storms" have a very relaxed, on the backbeat drift that are just quietly fantastic.

Also - Chloe is sublime here, floating through the melody with the effortless grace of a bird. This group of featured soloists have been a real coup for all of us.

[RogersBase]

Beautiful way to wake up this morning!