Jazz For Peace™ EXPANSION SERIES BEGINS
Jazz For Peace™ goes to Queens
featuring Rick DellaRatta
and
Emil Bizga
Ethno-Jazz Quintet
to perform a
concert
on Wednesday, March 10th at 9:00pm!
**Purchase advance tickets now
online at
and save $$$$$$$ on advance ticket!**
Jazz For Peace™ featured in the current issue of
BIG NEWS!
Jazz For Peace™ Expansion Series
begins with a performance featuring Rick DellaRatta and Emil Bizga
Ethno-Quintet on
Wednesday, March 10th at 9:00pm at Casa Romana - 39-20 Queens Blvd.
Tickets are $15. For details and to purchase advance tickets online for a
special discount please go to www.JAZZFORPEACE.org .
Jazz For Peace™ featuring Rick
DellaRatta has been featured on the cover of UPWARD , the feature article insert
of BIG
NEWS
which is distributed widely in the streets and subways of New York City as well
as Albany, NY.
Emil Bizga "Potorel", currently regarded as Romania's most significant jazz trumpeter, has his roots in a village called Pietris, where Romanian gypsies group spontaneously to blast out raucous brass fanfares, which both blare children to sleep at night and resound at weddings for three days and nights. Born on June 23rd, 1971 in Iasi, he began classical training at the age of ten.
He moved to Bucharest ten years later to study at the Music Academy, and made his jazz debut with the Mircea Tiberian Quartet at the Sibiu International Jazz Festival.
Emil's sound made an immediate impression, and the Bucharest Radio Big Band invited him to become a member. He held the position of solo trumpeter for eight years, while concurrently giving concerts throughout Romania and Europe with top musicians. To further his mastery of the trumpet, he decided to spend a year of study with Häkan Hardenberger in Malmö, Sweden in 1998. Following this, he moved to Hanover, Germany where he is completing a masters in jazz and where he has combined his varied musical venues of folklore, classical and jazz, bringing a new sound into the musical arena, Balkan jazz.
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 internationalaudience.Rick named this band:
"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" worldwide - joining forces (or
performing) with multicultural musicians to spread peace through the art form of
Jazz and entering regions that are politically controversial. By the means of
live concerts, video taping, on hands/on-line teaching as well as supplying
musical instruments to underprivileged children in under developed areas
worldwide, Jazz for Peace will re-enforce what past history has proven - that
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.
For more information please visit
www.jazzforpeace.org
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
The latest Jazz for Peace Concert Review now
available online at