Mimi Patricia Snider

1) Album "Thank you, Merci"

A dedication to the musicians of New Orleans

Re-released by Record Label DistroKids Sept 2025 (9 tracks of 2009's original “Thank you, Merci” CD release).

Originally recorded in 2007 and 2008 and released as a 12 track CD in 2009 and promoted at the Vancouver Jazz Festival for 4 years.

With Russ Botten (bass), Tony Foster (piano), Joe Poole (drums) with arrangements by Russ and Tony. Special guest, Tom Colclough (clarinet) on Chantez-Les-Bas, may he rest in peace.

Recorded live off of the floor with 3 takes each song. The best take was chosen with a few vocal intros and outros redone later on. The verse for Chantez-Les-Bas was resung.

Recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered by Dwayne Harder, live off the floor at Riverside Recording Studio.

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High Fly (Randy Weston with lyric added by Jon Hendricks)

Chantez-Les-Bas (W.C. Handy)

Summer Samba (Marcos Valle, English lyric by Norman Gimbel)

Would You Like to Take a Walk (Harry Warren lyrics by Mort Dixon and Billy Rose)

Babe's Blues (Randy Weston with lyric added by Jon Hendricks)

They Say It's Wonderful (Irving Berlin)

It's Time (Horace Silver)

I Concentrate On You (Cole Porter)

Little Niles (Randy Weston with lyric added by Jon Hendricks)

2) Single "Reach Out to Me"

A dedication to Nature

A single released in 2015 (Bacharach and David) which can also be heard in the video below (which includes photos of the West Coast taken by physicist and jazz fan Douglas Beder). iTUNES VIDEO LINK

"Reach Out to Me" was arranged and performed by husband and wife team Jennifer Scott (Werlizter) and Rene Worst (bass), where Mimi arranged the background vocals. With the late, great (every vocalist's dream pianist) Bob Murphy on B3 Hammond and Randall Stoll (drums). Thank you to Jennifer and Rene for organizing this special team of players.

3) Factor Demo Award (2000) “I Love Loulé”

A dedication to Loulé, Portugal

Franco Foggetti composition with lyrics and vocals Mimi Snider. Loulé was once a village where Jews, Moors and Christians cohabitated. These lyrics reflect on these times.

Featuring David Restivo, Rick Shadrach Lazar, and Bryant Didier (recorded, mixed and mastered at B Musique Studios and recorded at Q Music).