Jazz For Peace™

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Press Release

 

Jazz For Peace™ kicks off its second season with a Benefit Concert for Safe Horizon on Sat. March 6 th at 7pm at Jazz on the Park in NYC!

* Purchase advance tickets now online at  www.jazzforpeace.org *

Jazz For Peace™ Concerts featuring Pianist and Vocalist Rick DellaRatta continue with a special benefit concert for Safe Horizon on Sat. March 6th at 7pm at Jazz on the Park - 36 W106 st. (Duke Ellington Blvd.) between Manhattan Ave. and CPW . For details and to purchase advance tickets please go to www.jazzforpeace.org  Reservations: 212-947-1104

Jazz For Peace™ featuring Rick DellaRatta has been featured on the cover of  UPWARD , the feature article insert of BIG NEWS which is distributed widely in New York City as well as Albany,NY.

Safe Horizon's mission is to provide support, prevent violence, and promote justice for victims of crime and abuse, their families and communities.Safe Horizon grew out of a demonstration project at the Vera Institute of Justice that assisted victims and witnesses in Brooklyn criminal court in the mid-1970s. Established as an independent nonprofit organization called Victim Services in 1978, Safe Horizon began offering services in other family and criminal courts and developed additional programs to meet the emotional and practical needs of crime victims outside the courthouse as well.

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's mission is to help advance people to their highest potential through the understanding of Jazz as well as spreading peace through our "Jazz For Peace™  Concerts" worldwide - joining forces (or performing)  with multi-cultural musicians to spread peace through the artform of Jazz and entering regions that are politically controversial. By the means of live concerts, video taping, on hands/ on-line teaching as well as supplying musical instruments to under-privileged children in under developed areas worldwide, Jazz for Peace will re-enforce what past history has proven - that the art form of Jazz has the ability to create a positive effect that unites people and may eventually start to transform the barriers and issues of different cultures and beliefs. For more information please visit www.jazzforpeace.org

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

 The latest Jazz for Peace Concert Review now available online at  www.RobertaOnTheArts.com !