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 to perform benefit concert in NYC for:

United Black Caucus
on Friday, October 1st at 7pm

$25 please visit our website for special discounts
at Teamsters 237

216 West 14th Street (between 7th & 8th Ave.)
New York, NY  

The United Black Caucus Mission: In keeping with the goal of individual and collective empowerment, the United  Caucus of Black Union Members, established in 1997 as a not-for- profit organization affiliated with City Employees Union Teamsters Local 237, is dedicated to charitable, social and educational activities on behalf of its members, their families and the community at large.

Caucus members represent a cross section of urban New York City, composed of people of color who live and work in this great metropolis.  Membership is open to any union member who wishes to advance our cause and our stated goals.

For details and to purchase advance tickets for an online discount please go to www.JAZZFORPEACE.org or call 212-947-1104 for reservations.

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 multi-cultural 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