In this episode of re:Play, Greg Off sits down with Charlie Rosen — the Broadway orchestrator, three-time Grammy winner, and Tony Award recipient behind what he calls "the great video game songbook." With 13 Broadway credits including the Tony-winning Some Like It Hot, five 8-Bit Big Band albums and a sixth in progress, and Grammy wins for arrangements of Kirby Super Star and Super Mario, Charlie has spent the last decade making the case, one arrangement at a time, that video game music belongs in the canon.

From a three-year-old with perfect pitch at the piano in the San Fernando Valley, to a Berklee bass scholarship, to Broadway at 17 as a pit musician on 13 the Musical, to a 2017 Kyoto vacation that ended with a shamisen lesson in Tokyo and the seed of The 8-Bit Big Band, Charlie traces the whole arc — the pit-musician years that taught  ...