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Jazz for Peace™
“Uniting people through the art form of Jazz”
Our Mission
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".
By joining forces worldwide (or performing) with multi-cultural musicians,
entering regions that are politically controversial thought the means
of live concerts, video taping, on hands/online teaching as well as supplying
musical instruments to underprivileged children in under developed areas
World-Wide. Jazz for Peace will reinforce what past history has already
proven. 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.
Jazz For Peace featuring Rick DellaRatta 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, Middle Eastern, European, Asian and American musicians in concert for an international audience in what is now considered one of the most significant cultural events of our time.
*Over the past year, Jazz For Peace has played over 200 benefit concerts across many of New York's finest jazz venues for numerous nonprofit organizations in need.
*The Jazz For Peace mission is to continue the benefit concert series; to expand its performances to other 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 go 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 vocalists of all-time.
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