For immediate release: Contact Jazz for Peace 212-947-1104
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
Goes to Massachusetts
to perform a special benefit
concert in Cambridge for
on
Saturday, January 22nd 2005
at 7pm
At the Zeitgeist Gallery
1353 Cambridge
Street in Inman Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts
$30 please visit our website for
discount tickets at https://jazzforpeace.org/
Malaika
Project
(http://www.malaikaproject.org/)
is a multidisciplinary community development partnership between
international students and a local community based organization named
Zinduka in a small remote village in Western Tanzania. Our mission is to
improve the quality of life in rural Tanzania by increasing access to
health and education and improving the local economy. Our projects
include HIV and malaria prevention, restoring sight through vision
screening and cataract surgery, a health clinic for 62,000 people, a
microfinance program for women, building and a dormitory at the local
secondary school, English education, and an agricultural and animal husbandry
demonstration project.
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
***** 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.