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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 Brazilian benefit concert in NYC for:

African Well Fund

on Saturday, Sept. 18th at 6pm

$25 please visit our website for discount tickets
(plus 1 drink minimum)

at Penang
            204 Columbus Avenue (at 71st St.)     
New York, NY  10023


 

The African Well Fund is a registered non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to raising funds for building and maintaining wells in Africa. The African Well Fund believes that access to safe, consumable water is not merely a basic human need but a basic human right.

 

The African Well Fund has partnered with Africare, a leading private, charitable U.S. organization assisting Africa. Last year, Africare built 14 wells in Uganda serving over 5000 people with donations raised by the African Well Fund. This year, donations will be used to build wells in Ethiopia because of the current critical need there.
 

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