For immediate release:

Contact Jazz for Peace 212-947-1104

Jazz For Peace ™
featuring Rick DellaRatta to perform benefit concert in NYC for:

Dollars & Sense

On Saturday, August 14, 2004

at 7:30PM

Tickets $25.00

For details and to purchase advance tickets for an online discount please go to

www.JAZZFORPEACE.org or call 212-947-1104 for reservations.

at
greenroom

765 Sixth Avenue ~ New York, NY

(between 25^th and 26^th Streets)

The first Dollars & Sense, a 16-page bulletin that sold for 50 cents, came out in November 1974. Sponsored by the Union for Radical Political Economics, and produced by a collective of URPE members, Dollars & Sense sought to challenge the mainstream media's account of how the U.S. economy works by publishing popularly written, critical articles in an accessible format. As the magazine's publishers would describe its beginnings five years later:

It was a time of oil shortages, skyrocketing inflation, the beginnings of recession -- a time when economic crisis was starting to replace war in Indochina as the central event dominating the news and defining the possibilities for social change. Most activists were unprepared for the new economic problems of the late 1970s. No existing publication offered them a widely accessible, usable analysis of the U.S. economy. Dollars & Sense was created to meet that need.

More than 25 years and 240 issues after its founding, Dollars & Sense continues to meet the need for "left perspectives on current economic affairs," as our masthead proclaims. We print articles by journalists, activists, and scholars on a broad range of topics with an economic theme: the economy, housing, labor, government regulation, unemployment, the environment, urban conflict, and activism.

Though no longer formally affiliated with URPE, Dollars & Sense is still run much as it was at the beginning, by a collective that aspires to operate in a democratic and non-hierarchical way. The collective -- which includes graduate students, journalists, professors, and activists -- works with a paid staff of four. The collective tends to focus on editorial tasks, while the paid staff manages the magazine and our book publishing arm on a day-to-day basis. The magazine also relies on dedicated local activists and students who work as interns.

On September 25, 2002, Jazz Pianist & Vocalist Rick DellaRatta was invited to lead a band consisting of: 'Israeli, Middle Eastern, European, Asian & American' Jazz musicians in a concert inside the United Nations, for an international audience. Rick named this band:

"Jazz For Peace™ "

Jazz For Peace featuring:

Rick DellaRatta

Fast Facts

*Rick DellaRatta and Jazz For Peace performed at the United Nations in New York on September 25, 2002. He led a band consisting Israeli, MiddleEastern, European, Asian and American musicians in concert for an international audience.

*Over the past year, Jazz For Peace has played over 75 benefit concerts across many of New York's finest jazz venues for numerous non-profit organizations in need.

*The Jazz For Peace mission is to continue the benefit concert series; to expand its performances to more cities, states and countries; to bring jazz back into the schools and expose Americans to one of its greatest, yet often overlooked art forms; and to donate musical instruments to underprivileged children and schools.

*Rick DellaRatta's new CD, Jazz For Peace, has just been released. Half of the proceeds goes toward musical instruments for underprivileged children. It features such jazz greats as Eddie Gomez, Lenny White, Paquito D'Rivera and the London Symphony Orchestra.

*Rick DellaRatta is an international jazz pianist, vocalist and composer, who has won numerous awards through his talent. Most recently, he has been honored in Jazz Singers, a book by Scott Yanow, as one of the 500 greatest jazz vocalist of all-time.