Jazz Standards (195)

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http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions/index.htm” - adaptação e tradução por Ricardo Santos)

Rose Room (#199) - Música de Art Hickman e Letra de Harry Williams

West Coast bandleader Art Hickman introduced his composition in an instrumental version in 1917 while performing in the Rose Room at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. In 1919 Columbia Records brought the band to New York to record, and they waxed “Rose Room” in a marathon session that September. The next year their recording was a bestseller for Columbia Records:

Art Hickman, chefe da banda “West Coast”, introduziu a sua composição numa versão instrumental, em 1917, enquanto actuava no “Rose Room”, “St. Francis Hotel”, em San Francisco. Em 1919, a “Columbia Records” trouxe a banda para Nova York para gravar, e tocaram "Rose Room" numa maratona em Setembro. No ano seguinte, a gravação foi um sucesso de vendas para a “Columbia Records”:

Art Hickman e a sua orquestra (1920, N.º 5)

Duke Ellington e a sua orquestra (1932, N.º 15)

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Benny Goodman (Chicago, Illinois, EUA, 30-05-1909 – New York, EUA, 13-06-1986) sexteto e Charlie Christian (Bonham, Texas, EUA, 29-07-1916 - Staten Island, New York, EUA, 02-03-1942) - Benny Goodman Sexteto, 2 de Outubro de 1939, com Fletcher Henderson (piano), Benny Goodman (clarinete), Charlie Christian (guitarra), Lionel O'Hampton (vibrafone), Art Bernstein (contrabaixo) e Nick Fatool (bateria)

Duved Dunayevsky Quinteto (?) – Com Duved Dunayevsky (guitarra), Renaud Crols (piano), Denis Chang (contrabaixo) e Zack Martel (guitarra).

Louis Armstrong (New Orleans, EUA, 04-08-1901 — New York, EUA, 06-07-1971)

Django Reinhardt (Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Bélgica, 23-01-1910 - Fontainebleau, França, 16-05-1953)

Letra

I want to take you to a little room

A little room where all the roses bloom

I want to lead you into Nature's hall

Where ev'ry year the roses give a ball

They have an orchestra up in the trees

For their musicians are the birds and bees

And they will sing us a song

As we are strolling along

In sunny Roseland, where summer breezes are playing

Where the honey bees are "A-Maying"

There all the roses are swaying

Dancing while the meadow brook flows

The moon when shining is more than ever designing

For 'tis ever then I am pining

Pining to be sweetly reclining

Somewhere in Roseland

Beside a beautiful rose

The ball is over and tulips meet

Their little kisses are so short and sweet

The lilies nod to the forget-me-nots

When they're departing in their flower pots

But all the roses with their spirits high

Remain to love until they droop and die

And dear, why shouldn't it be

Just so with you and with me

In sunny Roseland, where summer breezes are playing

Where the honey bees are "A-Maying"

There all the roses are swaying

Dancing while the meadow brook flows

The moon when shining is more than ever designing

For 'tis ever then I am pining

Pining to be sweetly reclining

Somewhere in Roseland

Beside a beautiful rose

Lamento, algumas eventuais falhas nas letras, encontradas na Internet, devido à própria improvisação dada pelos seus intérpretes, e muitas vezes de difícil entendimento. (Ricardo Santos).