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The Beau Hunks
Formed in 1992
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The Beau Hunks are a Dutch revivalist music ensemble who have performed and recorded the vintage works of composers Leroy Shield, Marvin Hatley, Raymond Scott, Edward MacDowell, Ferde Grofé, and others. They have been referred to as a "documentary orchestra", because they perform note-perfect renditions of music which is obscure and often commercially unavailable. For some projects for which no sheet music was known to exist, they had to reconstruct charts from original recordings extracted from films.
For various projects they have been reconfigured as The Beau Hunks Sextette, The Beau Hunks Saxophone Soctette, The Beau Hunks Saxophone Quartet, and The Beau Hunks Orchestra. They have recorded for the labels Movies Select Audio, EigenWijs (a division of the VPRO, the Dutch public broadcasting network), Basta Audio-Visuals, and Koch Screen.
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Discography
Albums
- 1992 The Beau Hunks Play the Original Laurel & Hardy Music
- 1993 The Beau Hunks Play the Original Laurel & Hardy Music, Vol. 2
- 1994 The Beau Hunks Play the Original Little Rascals Music
- 1995 Celebration on the Planet Mars: A Tribute to Raymond Scott
- 1996 Manhattan Minuet
- 1998 Saxophone Soctette
- 1999 The Chesterfield Arrangements 1937–38
- 2003 Contrasts
- On to the Show!
- The Modern American Music of Ferde Grofé