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
performing a
special benefit concert in Houston for:
Wilfred O. Allen Education
Foundation
and
St.
Luke the Evangelist Episcopal
Church
On
Sunday February 6th at 4pm
at
St. Luke the Evangelist Episcopal
Church
3530 Wheeler
Avenue, Houston , Texas
Tickets
$30
or visit our
website for advanced purchase discount tickets at
www.jazzforpeace.org
Our Mission
It is the mission of the
WILFRED O. ALLEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION, Inc., to raise and distribute financial
aid in the form of four-year scholarships and mentoring assistance, to
qualified youths within the Houston metropolitan area.
Our primary
focus is on our "At Risk Scholarship Program". A program designed to identify
and assist minority children that meet our definition of being at risk of not
completing high school, and possibly entering an undesirable lifestyle to them
and to our community - a lifestyle denying them the opportunity of
participating in the "American
Dream."
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
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.
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