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Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
  front cover   side a

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Slaughter On Tenth Avenue*
7:04
Rodgers

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Part 1)
4:26
Knox / Kirkpatrick

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Part 2)
4:58
Knox / Kirkpatrick

  
  back cover   side b

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John Brown's Body
5:14
arr. Smith

Wives And Lovers
3:18
David / Baccarach

Women Of The World*
5:47
Ortolani

Bluesette
3:42
Thielemans

  
  label a
(EMI issue)		  

recording dates

studio

label

cat no.

  

20, 21 & 27/01/64

Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

Verve

V 8583

  

PERSONNEL
organ
Jimmy Smith
  
     

arr

  

Oliver Nelson

  
     
arr/cond
   Claus Ogerman*  
band
   no information available  
  TECH  
producer
   Creed Taylor  
  label b (EMI issue)  
engineer
   Rudy Van Gelder  
REISSUES label   year   cat no.      
    EMI   1963   VLP 9068  

 

  
     
    3d   23/12/04   -      
     
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with "Plays Pretty Just For You:

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
2. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Part 1)
3. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Part 2)
4. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
5. Bluesette
6. John Brown's Body (Part 1)
7. John Brown's Body (Part 2)
8. Wives and Lovers
9. Women of the World (Part 1)
10. Women of the World (Part 2)
11. The Nearness of You
12. The Jitterbug Waltz
13. East of the Sun
14. Autumn in New York
15. Penthouse Senerade
16. The Very Thought of You
17. I Can't Get Started
18. Old Devil Moon

  
     
    Verve   15/02/05   -      
REVIEW   The opening track starts out quietly, before slowly building through Jimmy's solo. It ends with Jimmy jamming down a buzzy minor chord, the brass wailing and the drummer in a frenzy. Which nicely sets up the title track that is, once again, the strongest track on the album. The band has a great swing and bounce here and Jimmy is just on fire: the fast bluesy runs, the two-note repetitions (this time with occasional third notes thrown in too), holding the high notes, it's all here. Whilst the rest of the album doesn't quite have this level of intensity, it is none the less a great, swinging set, with not one blues or ballad in sight. It makes for one of the most groovy LPs from Jimmy's Verve period.  
   

additional artwork

      
 

inner gatefold
       
  EMI issue front and back covers