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Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home
Studio album by
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quartet
Released1976
RecordedMarch 8, 1976
StudioCreative Sound Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark
GenreJazz
Length53:07 CD reissue with bonus tracks
LabelSteepleChase
SCS 1058
ProducerNils Winther
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis chronology
Jaws Strikes Again
(1976) 		Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home
(1976) 		Straight Ahead
(1976)

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

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [6]

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

Track listing

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  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

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References

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  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. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  6. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 338. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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