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.

Release history

They were reissued together on a single CD in 2006.

Track listing

Holiday for Skins, Volumes One

Holiday for Skins, Volumes Two

2006 CD reissue

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

References