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EXPANSION SERIES CONCERT

Jazz For Peace™

featuring Rick DellaRatta goes to Boston

for Jazz-Bossa Nova Benefit Concert for

Dollars & Sense

Friday, September 17th at 7pm
Zeitgeist Gallery in Inman Square
1353 Cambridge St. * Cambridge, MA

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

Jazz For Peace™ Expansion Series continues with a performance in Boston featuring Rick DellaRatta on Friday, September 17th at 7pm at Zeitgeist Gallery <http://www.zeitgeist-gallery.org/exhibits.html> - 1353 Cambridge Street in Inman Square, Cambridge. Tickets are $30, with special discounts available on our website.

The first Dollars & Sense, a 16-page bulletin that sold for 50 cents, came out in November 1974. Sponsored by the Union for Radical Political Economics, and produced by a collective of URPE members, Dollars & Sense sought to challenge the mainstream media's account of how the U.S. economy works by publishing popularly written, critical articles in an accessible format. As the magazine's publishers would describe its beginnings five years later:

It was a time of oil shortages, skyrocketing inflation, the beginnings of recession -- a time when economic crisis was starting to replace war in Indochina as the central event dominating the news and defining the possibilities for social change. Most activists were unprepared for the new economic problems of the late 1970s. No existing publication offered them a widely accessible, usable analysis of the U.S. economy. Dollars & Sense was created to meet that need.

More than 25 years and 240 issues after its founding, Dollars & Sense continues to meet the need for "left perspectives on current economic affairs," as our masthead proclaims. We print articles by journalists, activists, and scholars on a broad range of topics with an economic theme: the economy, housing, labor, government regulation, unemployment, the environment, urban conflict, and activism.

Though no longer formally affiliated with URPE, Dollars & Sense is still run much as it was at the beginning, by a collective that aspires to operate in a democratic and non-hierarchical way. The collective -- which includes graduate students, journalists, professors, and activists -- works with a paid staff of four. The collective tends to focus on editorial tasks, while the paid staff manages the magazine and our book publishing arm on a day-to-day basis. The magazine also relies on dedicated local activists and students who work as interns.

Jazz For Peace™ featuring Rick DellaRatta has been featured on the cover of UPWARD <http://www.mainchance.org/upward/read/january2004/burch.html>, the feature article insert of BIG NEWS <http://www.mainchance.org/upward/read/january2004/burch.html> 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 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

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

"A vocalist with a great power to thrill and move the listener, with some of the fragile delicacy that Chet Baker had in his youth, but with a greater sense of assurance." "a soft spoken sincerity that achieves a kind of dignity amid great emotional intensity."
               --Allaboutjazz.com

"...........DellaRatta brought new life to an old sweet song."
              --Boston Globe