For immediate release:

Contact Jazz for Peace 212-947-1104

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

911 Truth

On Saturday, August 28, 2004

at 11:00PM

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 the
Wings Theatre Company

154 Christopher Street
New York, NY  10014

911Truth.Org is a campaign to educate the public about the Sept. 11th coverup and inspire popular pressure to overturn the "incompetence theory" and expose the truth surrounding the events of 9/11 before the November election; namely, that elements within the U.S. government must have been complicit, or worse, for the attacks to happen the way they did.

911Truth.Org provides media, educational and
organizing materials; plans actions around key events in the calendar; and invites others to unite in simultaneous actions across the country, in the hope of reaching a tipping point in September or sooner. The campaign's role is not to command, but to inspire and encourage current and potential 9/11 Truth activists to join, voluntarily, into a powerful chorus.

We seek justice for the victims, but given its global significance, justice for Sept. 11 itself is not the main goal. 9/11 was used as a lever to shift the world. Rethinking 9/11 is the key to shifting it back, a way to spark unity among diverse movements seeking truth and justice, a way to transform perceptions, to alter the consensus reality. Truth is the point. Without truth, there can be neither choice nor Democracy. And without Democracy there can be neither peace nor justice. In other words, those who have sought peace and justice must now fight first for truth and freedom.



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.
 

Recent Quotes:
"Rick DellaRatta is one of the finest Jazz pianists alive."
--Savannah Times

"It is actually the quality of DellaRatta's voice that grows on me more & more with repeated listenings. At first I felt that Rick's strengths as a pianist were foremost, but with time I have come to understand that Dellaratta's skill as a vocalist is not to be underestimated. "His voice has quite a haunting quality to it, being slightly androgenous in tone, sometimes ghostly.... sometimes sexy. "
--Jen Karpin, Green Mtn Jazz Messenger

".....sure it will be a good show."
--New York Times Jazz Forum