Holiday for Skins

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{{Infobox album

| name = Holiday for Skins

| type = Album

| artist = Art Blakey

| cover = Holiday for Skins.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Volume 1 (BLP 4004)

| released = Early June 1959[https://books.google.com/books?id=WiAEAAAAMBAJ&q=Holiday+for+Skins&pg=PA41 Billboard June 15, 1959]

| recorded = November 9, 1958

| venue =

| 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

| prev_title = Drums Around the Corner

| prev_year = 1958

| next_title = 1958 - Paris Olympia

| next_year = 1958

| misc = {{Extra album cover

| header = Holiday for Skins

| type = Album

| cover = Holiday_For_Skins_Vol._2.jpeg

| border =

| alt =

| caption = Volume 2 (BLP 4005)

}}

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[http://www.allmusic.com/album/r836792 Allmusic Review]

| rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

| rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2 = Brian Morton|author2-link = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|edition = 9th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0 | page = 135}}

}}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.