Hang on to Your Hat, a Super Mario 64 Jazz Album is Here

Materia Collective has assembled a big jazz orchestra from some renowned talent out of Nashville. The goal of the Video Game Jazz Orchestra is to cover video game music soundtracks, and their debut is a Super Mario 64 album titled Hang on to Your Hat. As you may know, the music of Super Mario 64 was originally composed by the legendary Koji Kondo, of Nintendo. Hang on to Your Hat was produced by lead arranger David Russell, plus a team of other very skilled arrangers. The album is licensed and you can get it now from a number of different store fronts. Here is the track list:

“Koji Kondo’s foundational work for the field of videogame music in his Super Mario 64 soundtrack was already ripe with opportunity to be reimagined in the jazz idiom. We thought there was no better time to celebrate these game music standards with these storied and incredibly diverse arrangements. Each of the arrangers on this album are at the top of their game, beautifully walking the line between honoring the original pieces and elevating them in a way that’s never been heard before.”