About
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.
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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.
Members
Discography
Albums
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The Beau Hunks Play the Original Laurel & Hardy Music
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The Beau Hunks Play the Original Laurel & Hardy Music, Vol. 2
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The Beau Hunks Play the Original Little Rascals Music
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Celebration on the Planet Mars: A Tribute to Raymond Scott
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Manhattan Minuet
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Saxophone Soctette
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The Chesterfield Arrangements 1937–38
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Contrasts
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The Modern American Music of Ferde Grofé
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On to the Show!
Links
Official
Reference
Also known as
Beau Hunks · The Beau Hunks Saxphone Soctette · The Beau Hunks Sextette
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- 81e89909-60d5-48e0-8b5e-3c8f8d7ec079
- ISNI
- 0000000110872222
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 9 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.