Holiday for Skins

Holiday for Skins, Volumes 1 & 2 are a pair of separate but related albums by American jazz drummer Art Blakey, recorded on November 9, 1958 and released on Blue Note the following year.

Holiday for Skins
Volume 1 (BLP 4004)
Studio album by Art Blakey
Released	Early June 1959[1]
Recorded	November 9, 1958
Studio	Manhattan Towers, NYC
Genre	Jazz
Length	33:58 (Vol. 1) 33:16 (Vol. 2) 67:14 (CD)
Label	Blue Note BLP 4004 (Vol. 1) BLP 4005 (Vol. 2)
Producer	Alfred Lion
Art Blakey chronology
Drums Around the Corner (1958) Holiday for Skins (1959) 1958 - Paris Olympia (1958)
Holiday for Skins
Volume 2 (BLP 4005)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

Release history

They were reissued together on a single CD in 2006.^[4]

Track listing

Holiday for Skins, Volumes One

All tracks are written by Art Blakey.

Side 1

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Feast"	8:52
2.	"Aghano"	6:03

Side 2

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Lamento Africano"	8:22
2.	"Mirage"	10:27

Holiday for Skins, Volumes Two

All tracks are written by Art Blakey except as noted.

Side 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"O'Tinde"		6:14
2.	"Swingin' Kilts"	Ray Bryant	8:48

Side 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Dinga"		8:57
2.	"Reflection"	Bryant	9:06

2006 CD reissue

All tracks are written by Art Blakey.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Aghano"		6:07
2.	"The Feast"		8:56
3.	"Mirage"		10:30
4.	"Lamento Africano"		8:25
5.	"O'Tinde"		6:17
6.	"Swingin' Kilts"	Ray Bryant	8:53
7.	"Dinga"		9:00
8.	"Reflection"	Bryant	9:06

Personnel

Musicians

• Art Blakey – drums, chants
• Philly Joe Jones – drums, timpani, chants
• Art Taylor – drums, gong
• Sabu Martinez – bongos, congas, chants
• Ray Barretto, Chonguito Vincente – congas
• Victor Gonzales – bongos
• Andy Delannoy – maracas, cencerro
• Julio Martinez – congas, tree log
• Fred Pagani, Jr. – timbales
• Donald Byrd – trumpet
• Ray Bryant – piano
• Wendell Marshall – bass
• Austin Cromer, Hal Rasheed – chanting

Technical personnel

• Alfred Lion – producer
• Rudy Van Gelder – recording engineer, mastering
• Reid Miles – design
• Francis Wolff – photography
• Joe Goldberg – liner notes