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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0099923790921
Label: Koch Records
Manufacturer: Koch Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Koch Records
Release Date: July 18, 1995
Sales Rank: 148011
Studio: Koch Records
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Tireless hours of research and transcribing were required by the Beau Hunks Sextette to recreate this tribute to cartoon music powerhouse Raymond Scott. The Hunks, Holland's equivalent to the Cheap Suit Serenaders, perform exquisitely over the 19 tracks, using period instruments and trying their damnedest to keep up with Scott's frenetic arrangements. The results are stunning: humor abounds, and both well-known Scott titles (the ubiquitous "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals" and "The Penguin") and lesser cuts (the ultra-rare "Egyptian Barn Dance") swing. Scott went on to perform straight jazz and even dabbled with electronica (the three volume Soothing Sounds for Baby series) later in his career, but it's his cartoon music featured here--filled with muted trumpets, rimshots, and Middle Eastern melodies--that's so unforgettable. --Jason Verlinde
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This is a very fine "update" of the classic Raymond Scott recordings from the 1930's. The sound and balance are very good, and the energy and accuracy of the performances (both quite essential in Scott's works) is excellent. The wide variety of pieces, some of them quite unfamiliar, makes this a good value, too.
My only criticism is that these performances lack a certain amount of "swing" or rhythmic subtlety that transforms them from "tricky" to astounding. The original Raymond Scott ... Read More
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Okay...the Beau Hunks are like art restoration experts. They find something old and try to polish it up, bringing out all the nuances of the music that may have been lost to either the constraints of the original antiquated recording equipment or when the only surviving elements are old, hissy film soundtracks. They are the Indiana Jones' of lost music. They ALMOST hit a home run with this CD. True the fidelity is leaps and bounds better than the Raymond Scott original recording CDs on the market, ... Read More
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A friend put me on to the Beau Hunks, and after hearing one of their wonderful CDs I purchased three more in rapid succession. The Beau Hunks are talented, they sound perfect and effortless, and the compositions are amazing. I did not know Raymond Scott's work before, and (despite exposure to Warner Brothers cartoons) the only piece I actually recognized was "The Toy Trumpet."
I believe it was this recording that stimulated interest in, and led to the rediscovery of, Raymond Scott. And, among ... Read More
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Harry Warnow (1908-1994) (aka. Raymond Scott) was one of the most original figures in American pop music. His compositions have seldom been heard since he recorded them because not only are they murderously difficult; he never notated them. This is odd because Warnow was a Julliard trained musical prodigy. Whatever his reasons these impediments have kept his music from being heard (except as background music for Warner Bros. cartoons) for years. The Beau Hunks Sextette, a superior group of musicians from ... Read More
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