The Beau Hunks

The Beau Hunks are a Dutch revivalist music ensemble who have performed and recorded the vintage works of composers Leroy Shield, Raymond Scott, Edward McDowell, 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.

All our music is available on cd from: www.BastaMusic.com

and as direct download from your local iTunes store:

The co-founders of the Beau Hunks are Piet Schreuders and
Gert-Jan Blom of Amsterdam.

Schreuders serves as researcher, project developer, liner note annotator, package designer, and occasional co-producer.

Blom, a bass player and producer, serves as bandleader, session contractor, and recording producer.

"The best things from Holland since tulips." -- Newsweek

"I loved it ... It triggered off a very beautiful sentimental chord in my soul."
-- Brian Wilson

"I never leave earth without your cds."
-- Don Thomas, NASA Space Shuttle astronaut

"A crackerjack orchestra."
-- The New Yorker

"Light, spry and awash with a doddering innocence that is now rare."
-- Neil Strauss, The New York Times