Erwin Helfer

Erwin Helfer

Infobox musical artist
Name = Erwin Helfer


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Born = birth date and age|1936|1|20|mf=y
Origin = flagicon|USA Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Instrument = Piano
Genre = Boogie woogie, Blues, Jazz
Occupation = Pianist
Years_active = 1970s – Present
Label = Red Beans, Flying Fish
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URL = [http://www.erwinhelferpiano.com Erwin Helfer official website]
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Erwin Helfer (born January 20, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American boogie woogie, blues, jazz pianist.

Biography

Born and raised in Chicago, and as a child was more interested in classical music than blues. Helfer was introduced to piano blues as a young teenager growing up in Chicago in the early '50s, the heyday of the city's blues clubs. Once Helfer discovered the blues he enrolled at Tulane University in New Orleans, completing college with a degree in music. Spent time outside of class studying piano style of Crescent City pianists Archibald and Professor Longhair. Helfer began his professional career when Estelle Yancey, wife of pianist and boogie-woogie pioneer Jimmy Yancey, coaxed him to fill in for her accompanist, Little Brother Montgomery. His initial performance with Yancey led to a long-term professional partnership with the singer that lasted to her death in 1986 at age ninety. [Santelli, Robert. "The Big Book of Blues", Penguin Books, page 201, (2001) - ISBN 0141001453]

In 1982 Helfer began his own record company, Red Beans, and released albums by Estelle Yancey, Blind John Davis, Johnny "Big Moose" Walker, and other Chicago blues artists. He was nominated for the Blues Music Awards in 2003, for "Comeback Blues Album of the Year", for his cd "I'm Not Hungry But I Like To Eat - Blues". [ [http://www.blues.org/handys/pastyears.php4?YearId=2 Blues Music Awards Database] ] Recently he has played at the Chicago Jazz Festival, 2005-2007; Hungary's Debrecen Jazz Festival, 2005, and throughout the Chicago's blues clubs.

elective discography

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External links

* [http://www.erwinhelferpiano.com Erwin Helfer official website]


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