Paul Cebar

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Paul Cebar is a bandleader from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who has a penchant for African, Latin American and Caribbean music. He has released four albums with his band, Paul Cebar & the Milwaukeeans, which have received airplay from triple-A stations, across the US.

1 Early performing
2 The R&B Cadets
3 Paul Cebar & The Milwaukeeans
4 Discography with The Milwaukeeans
5 External links

[edit] Early performing

Cebar began performing in coffeehouses on the local folk scene in the mid-1970s. His repertoire consisted in large part of rhythm and blues and jump blues songs, played solo on his guitar. He attended New College in Sarasota, Florida. Afterwards, he played in New York while working with the R&B Cadets in Milwaukee.

[edit] The R&B Cadets

Throughout the early 1980's, Cebar was a member of a jazz and R&B combo, The R&B Cadets, along with Jon Sieger, Robyn Pluer, Alan Anderson, Rip Tenor and Juli Wood. The band played Sieger's compositions, along with obscure songs from the mid-century that Cebar had unearthed.

The R&B Cadets released an album entitled Top Happy, in 1986.

[edit] Paul Cebar & The Milwaukeeans

In 1986 Cebar and several of the Cadets formed Paul Cebar & The Milwaukeeans. It was a R&B and jazz combo consisting of Cebar (guitar, vocals), Pluer (vocals), Wood (saxophone), Anderson (bass), Tenor (sax) and drummer Randy Bayhen. The band explored African, Latin American and Caribbean sounds in a rhythm and blues context.

All of the original members other than Cebar have moved on. The current lineup includes Bob Jennings (sax, keyboards), Reggie Bordeaux (drums), Romero Beverly (percussion) and Patrick Patterson (bass). While earlier incarnations of the band were more pop-oriented, more recently the band is heavily into African, Latin, Caribbean, reggae, zydeco, R&B and soul styles.

The band continues to perform regularly, and tours the US.