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.[ Allmusic]

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