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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (album)

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Released
  
March 1964

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' (1964)
  
Christmas '64 (1964)

Release date
  
March 1964

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
35:06

Artist
  
Jimmy Smith

Label
  
Verve Records

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Recorded
  
January 20-21 & 27, 1964 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1964 studio album by organist Jimmy Smith, released on the Verve label. Smith is accompanied by a big band with arrangements by Oliver Nelson and Claus Ogerman.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" (Richard Rodgers) – 7:06
  2. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Pt. 1" (Don Kirkpatrick, Keith Knox) – 4:29
  3. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Pt. 2" (Kirkpatrick, Knox) – 5:00
  4. "John Brown's Body" (Traditional) – 5:18
  5. "Wives and Lovers" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 3:17
  6. "Women of the World" (Riziero Ortolani) – 5:47
  7. "Bluesette" (Toots Thielemans) – 3:40

Recorded on January 20 (#1), 21 (#2-3) and January 27 (#4-7), 1964.

Performance

  • Jimmy Smith - organ
  • Oliver Nelson - arranger (#1-3)
  • Claus Ogerman - arranger, conductor
  • Songs

    1Slaughter on Tenth Avenue7:08
    2Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Part 14:29
    3Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Part 25:00

    References

    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (album) Wikipedia