Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home
Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home | ||||
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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[]
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Allmusic called it "Fun, accessible and mostly hard-swinging straightahead music".[5]
Track listing[]
- "Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home" (Oscar Pettiford) – 4:32
- "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 5:00
- "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 5:59
- "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You" (Victor Young, Bing Crosby, Ned Washington) – 4:44
- "Locks" (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis) – 6:42
- "Wave" (Antônio Carlos Jobim) – 6:23
- "(Back Home Again in) Indiana" (Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley) – 3:08
- "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Ray Henderson, Mort Dixon) – 3:40
- "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You" [alternate take] (Young, Crosby, Washington) – 4:46 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home" [alternate take] (Pettiford) – 4:37 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Bye Bye Blackbird" [alternate take] (Henderson, Dixon) – 3:30 Bonus track on CD reissue
Personnel[]
References[]
- ^ SteepleChase Productions ApS accessed April 10, 2017
- ^ Jazzlists: SteepleChase Records discography, accessed April 10, 2017
- ^ Di Filippo, R., Enciclopedia del Jazz: Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis accessed April 10, 2017
- ^ Discogs album entry accessed April 10, 2017
- ^ Jump up to: a b Yanow, Scott. Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 338. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
Categories:
- Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis albums
- 1976 albums
- SteepleChase Records albums
- Inner City Records albums