It was released sixteen years after her previous studio album, Home for Christmas (1989).

It is a tribute album for Clooney who died in 2002, intended to be a musical portrait of her, or as Debby Boone put it: "I wanted to select songs that would give an insight into Rosemary from a family perspective".

[2] Boone toured extensively for the album including several nights at New York's famed cabaret, Feinstein's, where Clooney often performed.

[3] Christopher Loudon of JazzTimes thought that "unlike pedestrian salutes that concentrate on the object of adulation's biggest hits, Boone's homage takes a more personal tack, focusing on tunes that speak to specific familial memories".

[5] Another positive review of the album was that by Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. from AllMusic, who said "Reflections of Rosemary is well sung and tasteful, and should quickly find its place on mainstream jazz's heavy rotation play lists".