Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home

Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home
Studio album by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quartet
Released 1976
Recorded March 8, 1976
Studio Creative Sound Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark
Genre Jazz
Length 53:07 CD reissue with bonus tracks
Label SteepleChase
SCS 1058
Producer Nils Winther
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis chronology
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Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home is an album by American jazz saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis recorded in Copenhagen in 1976 and released on the Danish SteepleChase label.[1][2][3] The album was also released in the U.S. on Inner City Records[4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[5]

Allmusic called it "Fun, accessible and mostly hard-swinging straightahead music".[5]

Track listing

  1. "Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home" (Oscar Pettiford) – 4:32
  2. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 5:00
  3. "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 5:59
  4. "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You" (Victor Young, Bing Crosby, Ned Washington) – 4:44
  5. "Locks" (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis) – 6:42
  6. "Wave" (Antônio Carlos Jobim) – 6:23
  7. "(Back Home Again in) Indiana" (Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley) – 3:08
  8. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Ray Henderson, Mort Dixon) – 3:40
  9. "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You" [alternate take] (Young, Crosby, Washington) – 4:46 Bonus track on CD reissue
  10. "Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home" [alternate take] (Pettiford) – 4:37 Bonus track on CD reissue
  11. "Bye Bye Blackbird" [alternate take] (Henderson, Dixon) – 3:30 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ SteepleChase Productions ApS accessed April 10, 2017
  2. ↑ Jazzlists: SteepleChase Records discography, accessed April 10, 2017
  3. ↑ Di Filippo, R., Enciclopedia del Jazz: Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis accessed April 10, 2017
  4. ↑ Discogs album entry accessed April 10, 2017
  5. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
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