For immediate release: Contact Jazz for Peace
212-947-1104
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 Virginia for:
Nuclear
Policy Research Institute
on Sunday, November 14th at 3pm
Tickets $30
or please visit our
website for discount tickets at www.jazzforpeace.org
at
2300 Mount Vernon Avenue
Alexandria,
Virginia 22301
Phone: (703) 739-9268 Fax: (703) 836-2037
Nuclear Policy Research Institute
The Nuclear
Policy Research Institute (NPRI) was established to educate the American
public through the mass mediaabout the greatest single threat to our country's
-- and indeed the world's -- public health, namely the profound medical, environmental, political
and moral consequences of perpetuating nuclear weapons, power and waste. NPRI is led by Dr.
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