Uniting People through the Art Form of Jazz

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.


Jazz For Peace

featuring Rick DellaRatta

to perform a special benefit concert in NYC for:

Twana Twitu

On Wednesday, December 1st at 7pm

(doors open at 6:30)

At

at OPALINE
85 Avenue A (bet. 5th & 6th St.)     
New York, NY  10023

Tickets $30.00 at door

$25.00 advance

                             
  
Visit our website for advance ticket discounts at www.jazzforpeace.org

 

 Twana Twitu Mission

Twana Twitu is a Not-for-Profit, tax-exempt organization that seeks to support Kenya's AIDS orphans through the provision of education, medical attention and comprehensive basic care. "Twana Twitu," when translated means "Our Children" in the Bantu language (Kikamba) of Kenya. All children deserve love, compassion and self-enabling opportunities. Good fortune however, does not bless all.  Stripped of family and community-level support and protection, most of Kenya's AIDS orphans struggle through each day. Their plight is our cause; their tears, our drive. Our volunteer-based team consists of members unified by convictions to combat the deprivation and hopelessness caused by HIV/AIDS through empowering Kenya's weakest and neglected; the AIDS orphans.

Our website address is: www.twanatwitu.com

 

 

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.


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, Middle Eastern, 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 go 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.