For immediate release: Contact Jazz for Peace 212-947-1104
Come Experience
Jazz For Peace™
featuring Rick DellaRatta
performing a special benefit concert in NYC for:
Youth Advocate Program
on Tuesday November 9th at 6:30pm
at Lenox Lounge
288 Lenox Ave.New York City Phone: (212) 427-0253
Tickets $30
or visit our website for advanced purchase discount tickets
Youth Advocate Programs Mission
Since 1975, Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. (YAP) has been serving youth and families with extremely complex needs and presenting problems. Historically, YAP has targeted children and youth carrying the label "difficult to serve".
Today, the Advocate Programs are providing services in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Ohio, Florida and Washington, D.C. All programs are non-residential, community-based and family focused.
The agency mission is to provide community-based alternatives for the care and protection of individuals who are, have been, or may be subject to compulsory placement in public or private institutions.
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
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, 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