If you read my blog, you know that recently I went looking for themes from old 8-bit Nintendo games to use as ringtones on my new RAZR. This morning, probably in response to that post, a friend (thanks, George) sent me a link to a blog post introducing VGMix.com, “an online community of amateur musicians who make recordings of video-game music” (site temporarily disabled due to technical issues). As if that wasn’t cool enough, the author had recorded his own version of the Super Mario Bros. 2 level 1 theme, in the “gypsy jazz” style of Django Reinhardt. I listened to the song, then promptly downloaded it to add to my iTunes library—and bless him for making it available for free. Enjoy!

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PS - For the musically knowledgeable, here are the chords from his arrangement.
PPS - A piece of trivia. The talented musician is Adrian Holovaty, who just happens to be the lead developer for Django, the Python open-source web app framework. And I’d wondered where the name came from; I guess this is my answer.

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