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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 a special benefit concert in 

Minneapolis Minnesota for:

Maria’s Children International
on Saturday, March 5th

At The Jeanne D’Arc Auditorium Whitby Hall

On the Campus of

                      College of St. Catherine

PM Reception with Light Refreshments

Concert at 7pm

Tickets $30

Or please visit our website for discount tickets at https://jazzforpeace.org/

 

Maria’s Children International

 

Maria’s Children International is a Minneapolis-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization established to provide funding for arts rehabilitation programs that provide social, intellectual, and psychological rehabilitation for disadvantaged children around the world.

 

Maria's Children International grew from a program developed by Maria Yeliseyeva to work with orphans and children with cerebral palsy in Moscow.  Her arts rehabilitation program, which is described below, was so successful and had such a significant impact on these children that Maria’s Children International was established to raise funds necessary to allow her program to function effectively and grow to include more children. 

 

Our goal is to take Maria’s vision and success to reach children in similar circumstances in other parts of the world.  We are currently cultivating similar programs in St. Petersburg, Russia and Haiti.  As funding allows, we will be able to improve the lives and futures of more children living in difficult circumstances.

 

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

***** Jazz For Peace™ reaches out to individuals and organizations on both sides of conflicting issues, believing that if we as a species embrace qualities such as creativity, artistry, intellectuality, humanity, individuality, etc. we will all have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction.*****

More information about Jazz For Peace can be found at www.jazzforpeace.org.