aww yes.

also, very good call on bill evans, toroxciso.

I remember the first time I heard actual "jazz" in a game was this hilariously bad rendition of "Take Five" used as the main title theme for the NES port of "Chessmaster" (which I can still pwn at, btw)

that tales of symphonia song is really nice.

lunar pool has some of those "spy" feeling note combos.

i don't know if r-type counts.  it sounds like rock.  it's got some nice melodies in it.  later in the song it gets in as blues rock, so okay..

I'm in love with Grim Fandango's Jazz from 1998, but a Jazzy Chiptune track that is awesome is the one in Lunar Pool/Ball.

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One simply does not have a jazz thread without Bill Evans:

also... there was this place on Tales of Phantasia for the SNES where you could ask Sakuraba (the game composer, I think) to play a really cool piece.

Thanks for this, this is a great thing to have and hear.

Does Super R-Type for SNES count as jazz?

Mortimer Twang did some pretty cool downtempo swing-ish pieces, look up his amiga mod series 'suggestive vibes'. Not exactly jazz, but still in the general vibe, imo

Side Pocket for SNES is not compeletely jazzy, and not bluesy. But probably one of my favorite soundtracks since I was a kid.

They're what got me into Jazz/Blues. A friend of mine played this song once in the car after a rock show and I was so drunk I didn't know what was happening but it sounded amazing.

God I forgot how much I loved Medeski, Martin, & Wood.

I need more of these real jazzes you speak of.

Fuck yeah it is, albeit a very specific style from a specific era.

Actually, topical to the thread. Koji Kondo wrote ragtimes for the air stage levels in most of the Super Mario World games.

Check it:

Compare to actual period era ragtimes, such as these by Scott Joplin:

And a modern ragtime, composed by the guy from the first video:

gotta love some art tatum.

stride piano is jazz, right?