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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

performing a special benefit concert in Queens NY for:

 Corona Community Ambulance Corps, Inc.

On Thursday February 17th at 8pm

at  Europa Restaurant

49-12 Queens Blvd, Woodside N.Y

718-429-3415

Tickets $30 

or visit our website for advanced purchase discount tickets at www.jazzforpeace.org

CCAC Mission Statement:

The mission of Corona Community Ambulance Corps, Inc. (CCAC) is to provide qualified professional emergency medical care at the highest standard of Emergency Medical Service (EMS). To the community of Corona, we assure pre-hospital emergency medical care and we offer safe and expedient transportation to the most appropriate medical facility in the area. One of our goals is to assess and treat the medical needs of the patient in accordance with the standard of care that has been established by our level of certification. 

To accomplish our mission, it will be our duty to demand personal commitment, good morale, character, pride, honesty and teamwork from each member of the organization regardless of rank or position. We shall never allow race, color, creed, sex, age, lifestyle, national origin or economic status to cloud our judgment or affect our decisions. Everyone will be treated fairly and with compassion and respect. Throughout the patient’s treatment in our care, our corps shall only demonstrate excellence while ensuring the highest degree of professionalism; this is our oath to the community.

 

 

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