For Immediate Release: Contact - Jazz for Peace - 212-947-1104

Jazz For Peace™
featuring Rick DellaRatta 

to perform benefit concert in NYC for 
Drug Policy Alliance 
on Monday, May 10th at 7
:30pm
**Purchase advance tickets now online at   www.JAZZFORPEACE.org
and save 20%!**


Jazz For Peace™ featured in the current issue of
BIG NEWS!

Click here to view the pictures of our sold out concerts



Jazz For Peace™ Concerts featuring Rick DellaRatta continue with a special benefit concert  for Drug Policy Alliance on Monday  May 10th  at 7:30pm at:

Porters Restaurant

216 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10011

Tickets are $25.00 for more details and to purchase advance tickets online for a 20% discount please go to  www.JAZZFORPEACE.org  or call 212-947-1104 for reservations.

Mission and Vision
The Drug Policy Alliance envisions a just society in which the use and regulation of drugs are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights, in which people are no longer punished for what they put into their own bodies but only for crimes committed against others, and in which the fears, prejudices and punitive prohibitions of today are no more.
Our mission is to advance those policies and attitudes that best reduce the harms of both drug misuse and drug prohibition, and to promote the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies.

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.

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'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