Manteca Beat
Paul Klemperer started Manteca Beat to highlight classic American music from the 1940s-60s. Drawing from blues, jazz, Latin, R&B, and more, Manteca Beat takes audiences on a musical travelogue, appealing to all ages and demographics. Manteca means “grease” in Spanish and everyone knows you need a little grease to add flavor to your cooking.
Manteca Beat Cabaret
The Manteca Beat Cabaret adds extra spice to the recipe, with female vocalists, dancers, costumes and an entertaining sense of theater. Paul Klemperer & Manteca Beat provide a great show for all occasions, from cocktail and dinner parties to formal events, concerts and dance parties.
The Klemperer Group
The Klemperer Group is an experimental music project started by Paul Klemperer with the purpose of investigating ideas through the medium of sound.
My Exotic Other
MEO explores the musical meeting point between the fire and the dark…Paul Klemperer blends musics of the world in his original compositions. It is a potent mix of complex melodies, infectious rhythms, and combinations of instruments. World music is more than a radio genre, it is a reflection of the social and historical relationships we have with each other. In some ways we are familiar, in some ways we are unknowable. My Exotic Other takes on this challenge, creating sounds to make you think, feel and dance.
Just Paul
Paul Klemperer has been entertaining audiences around the world for over 35 years, bringing his personal touch to a wide range of musical styles on saxophone, clarinet and flute. Drawing from R&B, Jazz, Blues, Latin, Country, Classical, and International styles, Paul specializes in pleasing audiences from all walks of life.
Whether the occasion calls for an intimate sound, soulful songs, or hard-driving rhythms, Paul Klemperer creates an amazingly full musical experience, solo and acoustic, using only his technical mastery, extensive musical repertoire, and ability to connect with people.
Paul Klemperer has played across the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and Asia, on festival stages in front of thousands of people, in funky nightclubs, upscale restaurants, in classrooms for school children from pre-K through college, beach resorts, conventions, weddings, memorial services… the list goes on. Wherever people need music, Paul Klemperer can bring it, and create a special and lasting memory.