For
immediate release: Contact Jazz for Peace 212-947-1104
Expansion Series Benefit Concerts
continue
In Chicago, Illinois!
Jazz For Peace ™
featuring
Jazz Pianist and Vocalist
Rick DellaRatta
Performing
Benefit Concert in Chicago for:
Broadtree
Adventures in Education
On
Sunday February 20th, 2005
At 6:00PM
2200 North Ashland Street
773-395-0066
Tickets $30 at the door/ $25
Advance
Visit our website for details
and order discount tickets at
or Call
212-947-1104 for Reservations
Broadtree
Adventures in Education Mission:
Broadtree Adventures in
Education is a Chicago area, non-profit outdoor adventure, camping, and social
action year-around program which works with schools and social services to
enable at-risk teens to develop the personal, social and academic skills to
empower their lives and to positively change their communities and their world.
"Jazz
For Peace™ "
Jazz
for Peace’s Mission is to help advance people to their
highest potential through the understanding of Jazz as well as spreading peace
through our "Jazz for Peace Concerts". By joining forces worldwide
(or performing) with multi-cultural musicians, entering regions that are
politically controversial thought the means of live concerts, video taping, on
hands/online teaching as well as supplying musical instruments to underprivileged
children in under developed areas World-Wide.
Jazz for Peace will reinforce what past history has already proven. The
art form of Jazz has the ability to create a positive effect that unites people
and may eventually start to transform the barriers and issues of different
cultures and beliefs.
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, 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 will go towards 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 androgynous 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.