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Mimi’s Recordings

Silence!
Silence!
Mimi Blais
Piano

Selections

Black and White Rag - a movie (G. Botsford/M. Blais)
Balloon Rag (J.B. Lafrenière)
Harlem Rag (Tom Turpin)
Remember “The Sting” (Scott Joplin)
The Music Box Rag (“Luckey” Roberts)
The Chevy Chase (“Eubie” Blake)
Palm Leaf Rag (Scott Joplin)
Jannôt Valse (J.B. Lafrenière)
Red Onion Rag (Abe Oleman)
Three Little Oddities - Impromptu (Zez Confrey)
Pastime Rag #2 (Artie Matthews)
Aeroplane Waltz - Valse Miroir (J.B. Lafrenière)
Pork and Beans (“Luckey” Roberts)
Pickles and Peppers (Adeline Shepherd)
Blue Ribbon Rag (May Aufderheide)

Life is a dream
Life is a dream
Mimi Blais
Piano

Selections

La vie est un rêve - L'envolée (Mimi Blais)
Back to Grass Valley (Jack Rummel)
When the work is done, I’ll dance (Jack Rummel)
Weeping willow (Scott Joplin)
Le retour des oies blanches (Mimi Blais)
Thème de Grands-doigts (Mimi Blais)
Novelette (Dmitri Kabalevsky)
Hope and the blues (Mimi Blais)
Danza #1 (Ludovic Lamothe)
Sonnet en la mineur (Marie Bernard)
Ricardo (Mimi Blais)
Courte valse pour Rosie (Mimi Blais)
Danza #3 (Ludovic Lamothe)
Improvisation sur la Gnossienne #1 (Erik Satie/Mimi Blais)
Clair de lune (Claude Debussy)

Once Upon A
Rag Time
Once Upon A Rag Time
Out of Print
Mimi Blais with
John Petley

Piano

Nominated for Album of the Year 2005, Instrumental Category, by ADISQ

Selections

Harlem - Nightmare (T. Turpin)
The King of Ragtime (S. Joplin)
Barbershop Rag (B. Campbell)
Charleston Rag (E. Blake)
“Mixed” Pickles (C. Johnson/M. Blais)
The Thriller (M. Aufderheide)
Song Medley
11th Street Rag (E. Bowman)
King Porter Stomp (“Jelly Roll” Morton)
Steeplechase Rag (J. P. Johnson)
“The Branches!!” (Medley)
Smoke Carver Rag (T. Ittzes/M. Blais)
One For Norma (M. Morath)
Rosebud Rag (T. Shea)
Roberto Clemente (D.T. Roberts)
Temptation Rag (H. Lodge/M. Blais)

Mimi Blais Plays
André Gagnon
Mimi Blais Plays André Gagnon
Mimi Blais
Piano

Nominated for Album of the Year 2004, Instrumental Category, by ADISQ

Selections

La Douce Illusion
Un An Déjà
Déjà Septembre
Snow On Kamouraska
Après La Pluie
Première Impression
Dernier Rideau
Nelligan
Neiges
Chevauchée

Sunday Morning
Sunday Morning
Mimi Blais
Piano

Selections

On My Way Back to Montreal, I Got the Blues for Memphis Blues (Mimi Blais, 1998)
The Creeks of Missouri (Galen Wilkes, 1983)
A Totally Different Rag (May Aufderheide, 1910)
Gymnoraggy (Glenn Jenks, 1993)
Opalescence (Hal Isbitz, 1990)
Sunday Morning Blues (Mimi Blais, 2003)
Piaf (Hal Isbitz, 1996)
That Missing You Rag (Nan Bostick, 2003)
Ricardo (Mimi Blais, 1998)
Mimi ma Biche (Mimi Blais, 1995)
Bowery Buck (Tom Turpin, 1899)
The Cutter (A Classy Rag) (Elma Ney McClure, 1909)
Floyd (A Western Rag) (Richard Gresko, 1993)
Memories of You (Eubie Blake, 1930)

Made in Québec
Music of Jean-Baptiste Lafrenière
Made in Québec
Mimi Blais
Piano
Sophie Rivard
Violin

Selections

Marche Nationale (1904)
Jânnot Valse (1911)
Les Cascades (caprice brillant, 1899)
Aeroplane Waltz (1912)
Valse Miroir (1907)
À la Québécoise (1908)
John Chow Chow Rag (1912)
Sillyâss Two-Steps (1907)
Raggity Rag (1907)
Taxi Rag (1911)
National (valse-lanciers, 1911)
Balloon Rag (1911)
Victo (mazurka, 1904)
Railleuse (gavotte, 1914)
S’VON (valse élégante, 1912)
Valse Miroir (1907, version with violin)

Old Rags New Rags
Old Rags New Rags
Mimi Blais
Piano

Selections

Harlem Rag (Tom Turpin, 1897)
Buffalo Rag (Tom Turpin, 1904)
Raggity-Rag & Silly Ass (J.-B. Lafrenière, 1907)
The Pippin (Arthur Marshall, 1908)
Très Moutarde (Too Much Mustard) (Cecil Macklin, 1911)
Pork and Beans (Luckeyth Roberts, 1913)
Ragtime Nightingale (Joseph Lamb, 1915)
Rialto Ripples (George Gershwin, 1917)
Kitten on the Keys (Zez Confrey, 1921)
The Last of the Ragtime Pioneers (Galen Wilkes, 1984)
The Wrong Rag (Glenn Jenks, 1987)
Belle of Louisville (Frank French, 1990)
Ed’s Running Rag (Ittzés Tamás, 1990)
Gymnoraggy (Glenn Jenks, 1993)
La Dinde (The Turkey) (Mimi Blais, 1998)
Le Rag-à-Nat (The Monkey Rag) (Mimi Blais, 1999)

Taxi
Taxi
Mimi Blais
Piano

Selections

Taxi Rag (Jean-Baptiste Lafrenière, 1911)
Remember “The Sting” (Scott Joplin)
  The Entertainer (1902) — Solace (1909)
The Music Box Rag (Luckey Roberts, 1914)
Memories of You (Eubie Blake, 1930)
Kitchen Tom (Eubie Blake, 1905)
Ma douce amie (Mimi Blais, 1991)
Valse miroir (Jean-Baptiste Lafrenière, 1907)
Paraphrase sur/on “Black & White Rag” (George Botsford/Mimi Blais, 1908–1998)
On My Way Back to Montreal, I Got the Blues for Memphis Blues (Mimi Blais, 1998)
Dizzy Fingers (Zez Confrey, 1923)
A Musical Massacre (F. Chopin/W. Eckstein, 1923)
Mimi, ma biche (Mimi Blais, 1995)
The Cats/The Black Cat Blues (Mimi Blais, 1998)
  Voix/Vocal: Mimi Blais
The Baltimore Todolo (Eubie Blake, 1907–8)
Piaf (to her memory) (Hal Isbitz/Mimi Blais, 1996)
Maple Leaf “Ragadeus” (Scott Joplin, 1899)

Geraldine
Geraldine
Out of Print
Mimi Blais
Piano

Selections

Geraldine (Richard Gresko, 1992)
The Chevy Chase (Eubie Blake, 1914)
Walper House Rag (Joseph F. Lamb, 1903)
Valse Miroir (Jean-Baptiste Lafrenière, 1907)
Floyd (Richard Gresko, 1992)
11th Street Rag (Euday L. Bowman, 1918)
Blue Rondo a la Turk (Dave Brubeck, 1960)
Broadway Rag (James Scott, 1922)
Sadly, Sadly, Little Rag (William Ryden, 1989)
The Baltimore Todolo (Eubie Blake, 1908)
Swipesy (Cake Walk) (S. Joplin/A. Marshall, 1900)
Euphonic Sounds (Scott Joplin, 1909)
Bink’s Waltz (Scott Joplin, 1905)

Ragtime
Ragtime
Mimi Blais
Piano

Selections

Maple Leaf Rag (Scott Joplin, 1899)
Tricky Fingers (Eubie Blake, 1959)
Romantic Rag (Kathy Craig, 1976)
Eubie’s Classical Rag (Eubie Blake, 1972)
Heliotrope Bouquet (Louis Chauvin/Scott Joplin, 1907)
Ma Douce Amie - A Sweet Tiny Rag (Mimi Blais, 1991)
Golden Hours (Max Morath, 1972)
Dizzy “Bumblebee” Fingers (Zez Confrey/Mimi Blais, 1923)
Rhapsody Rag (Budd L. Cross/Mimi Blais, 1911)
Old Mortality (Max Morath, 1986)
The Entertainer (Scott Joplin, 1902)
Chalumeau (William Ryden, 1989)
April Fool Rag (Jean Schwartz/Mimi Blais, 1911)
Funky Rag (Mimi Blais, 1990)