Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home

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]

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
Jaws Strikes Again (1976) Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home (1976) Straight Ahead (1976)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[6]

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

• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis – tenor saxophone
• Thomas Clausen – piano
• Bo Stief – bass
• Alex Riel – drums

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. 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.