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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.

They were reissued together on a single CD in 2006.

Track listing:
Holiday for Skins, Volumes One:
All tracks are written by Art Blakey.

Side 1
1. “The Feast” 8:52
2. “Aghano” 6:03
Side 2
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
1. “O’Tinde” 6:14
2. “Swingin’ Kilts” Ray Bryant 8:48
Side 2
1. “Dinga” 8:57
2. “Reflection” Bryant 9:06

Personnel:
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

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Released: Early June 1959
Recorded: November 9, 1958
Studio: Manhattan Towers, NYC
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