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

                                         at Green Dolphin Street  

                                   2200 North Ashland Street

                                                    773-395-0066

                        Tickets $30 at the door/ $25 Advance

               Visit our website for details and order discount tickets at

                                           www.jazzforpeace.org

                               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 featuring: Rick DellaRatta

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.