Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (album)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Studio album by Jimmy Smith
Released	March 1964
Recorded	January 20-21 & 27, 1964 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre	Jazz
Length	35:06
Label	Verve V6-8583
Jimmy Smith chronology
The Cat (1964) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' (1964) Christmas '64 (1964)

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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.^[2]

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.

Personnel

Performance

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

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