Helfer is an excellent reputed jazz and blues piano player who follows the tradition of names like Jimmy Yancey or Albert Ammons Erwin rediscovered boogie-woogie again during the fifties in Chicago, when he saw Cripple Clarence Lofton playing there Indeed, it was Erwin himself who, later on, wrote Lofton’s obituary lines for legendary American jazz magazine The Record Changer Erwin Helfer has worked and recorded with many of the biggest names in blues such as Speckled Red, Big Joe Williams, Odie Payne, S P Leary, Stella ‘Mama’ Yancey, Jimmy Walker, Sunnyland Slim, Blind John Davis, Homesick James, Big John Wrencher and many others Helfer often plays around Europe, thanks to German manager Rolf Schubert, so you can regularly see him on stage in many European countries Erwin’s new work for his usual record label The Sirens includes twelve instrumental songs, ranging from compositions by Thomas A Dorsey, to other cuts coming from Ferdinand Morton like Winin’ Boy or Tin Roof Blues, but he also presents some tunes from Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields or Horace Silver songbooks, together with some own ones and other ones together with Barrelhouse Chuck, who appears as a guest musician The rest of the musicians involved are Skinny Williams and John Brumbach tenor sax, William Bugs Cochran drums and Lou Marini bass We are facing one of the major new recordings of The Sirens label, so it becomes essential to purchase it