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Erwin Helfer was born on 20 January, 1936, is an An american male jazz pianist. Discover Erwin Helfer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

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Born 20 January, 1936
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1936

Erwin Helfer (born January 21, 1936) is an American Boogie-woogie, blues and jazz pianist.

Helfer is a Chicago Boogie-woogie and jazz innovator, performer, and educator.

Born in 1936 and raised in his home-town Chicago, Erwin attended New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois.

1950

Helfer was mentored by William Russell, who introduced him to Glover Compton, Baby Dodds, Mahalia Jackson, Cripple Clarence Lofton, and Estelle Yancey, as a young teenager growing up in Chicago in the early 1950s.

William Russell moved to New Orleans and worked on a Ford Foundation grant, which led to the creation of the Jazz Archives at Tulane University.

Helfer followed Russell to New Orleans and studied at Tulane University.

He studied psychology but he did not complete a degree.

He became close to Billie Pierce and De De Pierce.

He spent time outside of class studying the piano style of Crescent City pianists Archibald and Professor Longhair.

1956

In 1956, Erwin Helfer made the only recordings of the house rent party pianist, Doug Suggs, and also recorded Speckled Red, Billie Pierce, and James Robinson (on the album Primitive Piano for his Tone Records and subsequently reissued by The Sirens Records SR-5005).

Other tracks from the Speckled Red recording session were issued on Delmark Records first release.

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.

1960

In the 1960s and early 1970s, Helfer recorded for Chess Records, Testament Records, Flying Fish Records, Big Bear Records and various European labels.

Peter J. Welding, one of the preeminent blues historians and scholars, wrote that Helfer had "mastered the rhythmic and melodic subtleties" of the blues piano style.

1976

In 1976, Helfer recorded Heavy Timbre - Chicago Boogie Piano for The Sirens Records; the recording session simulated a house rent party and included blues pianists Blind John Davis, Sunnyland Slim, Willie Mabon, and Jimmy Walker.

1982

In 1982, Helfer partnered with Pete Crawford and started Red Beans Records, and released albums by Estelle Yancey, Blind John Davis, Johnny "Big Moose" Walker, and other Chicago blues artists.

These recordings were sold to Evidence Records.

1986

His initial performance with Yancey led to a long-term professional partnership with the singer, that lasted to her death in 1986.

2001

In 2001, Helfer began collaborating with The Sirens Records, which restarted in 2001.

2003

He was nominated for the Blues Music Awards in 2003, for 'Comeback Blues Album of the Year', for his album I'm Not Hungry But I Like to Eat - Blues.

He has recorded St. James Infirmary, Careless Love, and Erwin Helfer Way for The Sirens Records.

2005

More recently he has played at the Chicago Jazz Festival, 2005–2007; the Debrecen Jazz Festival in Hungary, 2005, the Chicago Blues Festival, 1986-2010, and throughout blues clubs in Chicago.