A jazz orchestra’s Persona 5 cover has been nominated for a Grammy

An orchestra which previously won a Grammy for a video game cover has been nominated again for the prestigious award.

The 8-Bit Big Band has been nominated in the Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals category for its cover of Persona 5 track Last Surprise.

The band is a 30-65 member jazz / pops orchestra based in New York City, who cover musical themes from various video games.

It previously won a Grammy at the 2022 awards, for its cover of Meta Knight’s Revenge from 1996 SNES title Kirby Superstar.

The cover was arranged by Charlie Rosen and Jake Silverman, who also arranged the 2022 winning Kirby cover.

This is Rosen’s fourth Grammy nomination in a row – in the 2023 and 2024 ceremonies he was nominated for Best Musical Theater Album for co-producing A Strange Loop and Some Like it Hot respectively, winning for the latter.

Just nominated for my 4th Grammy IN A ROW!!! So thrilled to be nominated along side my harmonic bro in crime @Button__Masher for our co-arrangement of “Last Surprise” from Persona 5 for @the8bitbigband LONG LIVE VIDEO GAME MUSIC!!! pic.twitter.com/ThuZEhsTdY

— Charlie Rosen (@CRosenMusic) November 8, 2024

The Grammy nominees for the Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media were also announced recently.

The award, which marks its third appearance at the Grammy ceremony, will be contested between Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Star Wars Outlaws and Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.

The inaugural winner of the award in 2023 was Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, whose Dawn of Ragnarök DLC score by Stephanie Economou beat out Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Call of Duty: Vanguard, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Old World.

The 2024 award was won by Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, composed by Stephen Barton and Gordy Haab. It beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, God of War Ragnarök, Hogwarts Legacy and Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical.