| Jump for Joy | |
| Type: | album |
| Artist: | Bobby Short |
| Cover: | Jump for Joy (Bobby Short album).jpg |
| Released: | 1970 |
| Recorded: | 1969 |
| Genre: | Jazz, traditional pop |
| Length: | 34:04 |
| Label: | Atlantic SD 1535 |
| Chronology: | Bobby Short |
| Prev Title: | My Personal Property |
| Prev Year: | 1963 |
| Next Title: | Nobody Else But Me |
| Next Year: | 1971 |
Jump for Joy is a 1970 album by American singer and pianist Bobby Short.[1]
William Ruhlmann reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that "For once, the purveyors of the Great American Songbook were absent: no Porter or Gershwin or Rodgers. Instead, Short performed a combination of recent songs from Broadway and old, bluesy numbers. The latter seemed to draw the greatest enthusiasm from him as he revisited some tunes he might have played in Midwest roadhouses back in his youth, songs like "Romance in the Dark," "I'm Confessin' That I Love You," and the newly trendy "If You're a Viper," an ode to marijuana use. ...But even second-drawer Short on record was welcome after so many years away".