'Mauville City' (Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire) LIVE Jazz Cover // J-MUSIC Pocket Band

Our live cover of "Mauville/Rustboro/Mossdeep City" from Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, originally composed by Go Ichinose. This arrangement by Patrick Bartley.

This song has got to be on my (Pat) top 3 favorite Pokemon songs of all time. This has a sentimental place in my heart, being that Sapphire was my first Pokemon (at age 17, yep. Go ahead and comment), but that's not even the reason why I think it's so great. This song is so perfectly composed that it totally works outside of the game as its own tune, and no one would know it's from a game. This song has also been performed for the United Nations (infiltration complete)! Everything about this song is beautiful, and the feeling it creates is truly unmatched by anything but the great works from artists like Antonio Carlos Jobim. Being that this was among the first few songs ever arranged for the Pocket Band, this one has become somewhat of a standard for us, meaning we're now able to get to all sorts of things on this by now. You can enjoy some nice solos from everyone in the band before we take it out!

Also, you can get this song on our first free demo collection on Bandcamp, as well as downloading free sheet music for this one in our VGM Real Book vol. 1, hosted on our Facebook group!

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***HAPPY 1-YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO THE JAM SESSIONS!***
Thank you so much to everyone involved for making these possible!

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[neilmorrissey]

Ya'll ever get tired of knocking it out of the park?

[MusikageKira]

Brought tears to my eyes my dudes. Excellent work!

[griffo_xv]

Pokemon + J-Music Ensemble = Yes.... just yes

[Adam-senpai]

This was my first Pokemon game as a kid Mudkip was my first starter

[VocalBeatzTap]

This brings me back, always killing it Pat and Gang <3

[Mussoi]

the accordeon is what was missing from the other covers

[Thepippinator]

Why is Nostalgia so strong 🥺🥹🥹 such simpler times.

[LeMelleKH]

"Cannonball's Bossa Nova"

[rowanroberts]

If I could like this video twice, I'd like it three times

[abhimanyukhadwal]

This makes me want to fall in love with someone and take them to Mauville.

[__dane__]

I never realized that this song is what I think of when I think of pokemon

[DimitriTacoEater]

By only hearing the first 2 seconds I already had tears on my eyes.
Amazing, beautiful work.

[LucasSouza]

The like/dislike ratio don't lies...
You guys are so amazing, oh my god... this is a really masterpiece.
I would pay my entire wallet to see this live.

[based_set]

Pokemon Emerald version was the first pokemon game I played as a kid and the Mauville City / Rustboro City theme was always my favorite and I still find myself humming it today. This is such an incredible rendition, and I can't express how much this made my day.

[ashb]

You guys really brought out the personality of this song. That accordion adds the perfect seaside flavor that i think the original composers imagined this town should sound like, but were limited to bring out in vgm.

[seff]

if i heard this live id break down crying on the spot

[FauzyZain]

Kinda nostalgic.... i was really enjoy stay at this city... because of the theme song...

Great work guys!

[BackupDownloads]

As a fellow accordionist, this is incredible. I'll have to add this to my repertoire!

[angelbello]

I always wanted to hear a real band cover this. This song is beautiful. Has so much nostalgia, since my first game was Ruby

[samuelmather]

reminds me how great this theme is and how effective it is in making you feel like you are in a warm sunny place with a lot going on. the music does more than half of the world building