Rick DellaRatta honored as one of the top Jazz Vocalists of all time!
Rick DellaRatta has been listed as one of the 500 top jazz vocalists of all time in a new book by Scott Yanow titled The Jazz Singers. It will be published by Backbeat Books in 2005 and will be nationally distributed and available in
most bookstores.
Jazz For Peace™
featuring Rick DellaRatta to perform benefit concert in NY for:
Lawyers Without Borders
on Saturday, Aug. 21st at 6:30PM
Tickets $30.00
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 TRIAD
158 West 72nd Street ~ New York, NY
(Between Broadway & Columbus Avenue)
THE MISSION
Lawyers Without Borders, is a US-based non-profit organization whose goal is to engage the legal profession, on a global basis:
 | supporting capacity building of NGO's worldwide, |
| advancing Rule of Law, |
| protecting the integrity of legal process through neutral observation, |
| offering support to lawyers in the field and |
| serving as a law oriented clearinghouse linking needs with the legal resources to meet them. |
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 artforms; 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.