# Rose Room
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{{Short description|Jazz standard made by Art Hickman & Harry Williams}}
{{about|the jazz song|the room in the White House in Washington, D.C.|Queens' Bedroom}}
right|thumb|1918 sheet music cover
thumb|Art Hickman's Orchestra playing "Rose Room" {{circa}}1919.
"'''Rose Room'''", also known as "'''In Sunny Roseland'''", is a 1917 [jazz standard](/source/jazz_standard), music by [Art Hickman](/source/Art_Hickman), lyrics by [Harry Williams](/source/Harry_Williams_(songwriter)). It is almost always performed as an instrumental. Composed at a time when the popularity of [ragtime](/source/ragtime) was fading in favor of [thirty-two-bar form](/source/thirty-two-bar_form) and [twelve-bar blues](/source/twelve-bar_blues) songs, the song has been called "definitely ahead of its time" by composer [Alec Wilder](/source/Alec_Wilder). Indeed, while popular in the late 1910s and early 1920s, the song enjoyed its biggest popularity during the [swing era](/source/swing_era).[Chris Tyle: [http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-1/roseroom.htm Rose Room overview] at ''jazzstandards.com'' - retrieved on 24 May 2009] The song was named after the Rose Room in [St. Francis Hotel](/source/St._Francis_Hotel), where Hickman was playing at the time.[Gene Lees: ''Cats of Any Color: Jazz Black and White''. Oxford University Press US, 1995. {{ISBN|0-19-510287-8}}. p. 204] In 1914, jazz pioneer [Bert Kelly](/source/Bert_Kelly_(jazz_musician)) was a member of Hickman's band.
==History==
[Duke Ellington](/source/Duke_Ellington) is credited in reviving the popularity of "Rose Room" with his 1932 recording. Ellington later used the song's [chord progression](/source/chord_progression) in his 1939 composition, "[In a Mellotone](/source/In_a_Mellotone)".