Biography
Erwin Helfer was introduced to piano blues as a teenager we were young in Chicago in the first ’50s, the heyday from the city’s blues clubs as well as the fortunes of labels such as for example Chess Information. A indigenous of Chicago’s south aspect, he haunted the night clubs as a guy, but he also had taken the time to wait school and finished college using a level in music, which he accompanied by spending 3 years in New Orleans in the past due ’50s, where he performed jazz. One of the music artists who inspired him most had been Jimmy Yancey, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, and Speckled Crimson, and Helfer counted himself an excellent friend of guitarist Big Joe Williams. Helfer became a performer and instructor, touring Europe being a blues pianist and in addition training university students in Chicago through the entire 1970s. His design is equally versatile to blues and jazz.
Quick Facts
Full Name Erwin Helfer
Date Of Birth January 20, 1936
Profession Pianist
Education Tulane University
Nationality American
Music Songs I'm Not Hungry but I Like to Eat - Blues, Pooch Piddle, Dirty Dozens, I Almost Lost My Mind, Big Joe, Stop Time Boogie, E&c Boogie, A Conversation with Erwin, Rocky Mountain Blues, Operator Blues, Homage to Pete Johnson, Four O' Clock Blues, Four O' Clock Blues - Erwin Helfer, The Fives, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, Stop Time Boogie - Erwin Helfer, Paris But I Don't Know Why, Prescription for the Blues, Chicken Shack, Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, Rubbish Boogie, Rodez Stomp, Please Send Me Someone to Love, See See Rider, Tin Roof Blues, 4 O'Clock Blues, This is Better Than I Thought Boogie, Pinetop's Blues, Winin' Boy, The Preacher, Take My Hand, Precious Lord, Homage to AA and PJ
Albums I'm Not Hungry but I Like to Eat, Boogie Piano Chicago Style, Last Call, Careless Love, Erwin Helfer Way (feat. Barrelhouse Chuck, Bugs Cochran, Lou Marini, John Brumbach & Skinny Williams)
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