For
Immediate Release: Contact - Louise Johnson Jazz Management - 212-202-0515
Rick
DellaRatta honored as one of the top Jazz
Vocalists
of all time!
DellaRatta,
Gomez and White celebrate their eighth year as one of the finest trio's in Jazz
with their new Stella CD release "Jazz For Peace" !
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.
RECENT PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS AS A
LEADER
Weeklong
engagement at Sweet Basil – NYC–
Trio/Quartet
w/ Eddie Gomez, Lenny White, Dave Liebman & Al Foster Jazz for
Peace Concert @
Troy
Music Hall – NY
–
Quartet
w/ Eddie Gomez, Lenny White & Paquito D’Rivera
Bryant
Park “Jazz in
July”
Concert
Series - NYC – Solo
& Trio performance w/ special guest Billy Hart
Empire
State Jazz Festival – Upstate
NY
Quartet w/Eddie Gomez, Lenny White & Dave
Liebman
Thelonious
Jazz Club - Boliva ,
Cutting Room - NYC – Quartet
w/ special guest Bobby Watson
Jazz for
Peace Concert –The
United Nations, NYC – The Rick
DellaRatta International Quartet
Millienium
Concert –
Burnhardt
Theater - Saratoga Springs, NY
w/ Nick Brignola
Cutting
Room-NYC- Quartet
w/ Will Lee, Chris Parker & Dave Mann
Weekend
at Birdland – NYC Trio
w/ Eddie Gomez and Lenny White
Concert
at The Egg – Albany,
NY,
Blue Note
Jazz Club – NYC,
Panasonic
Jazz Festival – NYC,
Weeklong
engagement at
Catalinas Bar & Grill - Los Angeles, CA. - Quartet w/ Eddie
Gomez, Lenny White & Sonny Fortune
The Jazz
& Blues Co. - Carmel, Ca. – The Rick
DellaRatta Quartet w /Charlie Shoemake
Bach
Dancing and Dynamite Society – SF, Ca
–
The Rick
DellaRatta Trio
The
Famous Jazz Artist Series – Cambria,
Ca. –
The Rick
DellaRatta
Trio,
Kansas
City Jazz & Blues Festival - Kansas City - MO - Headliner
Quartet w/ Rufus Reid, Billy Hart & Bobby Watson
Coleman
Hawkins Jazz Festival – Topeka,
Kansas,
Blues
Alley Jazz Club – Washington,
DC –
Quartet
w/ Eddie Gomez, Lenny White & Nick Brignola
Concert
for Friends of Jazz – Miami,
Fla. Yours Jazz Club
–
Trio w/
Eddie Gomez, Elliot Zigmund
Savannah
Jazz Festival
–
Headliner
Quartet w/ Eddie Gomez, Lenny White & Bobby Watson
Ryles
Jazz Club – Boston,
Ma
– The Rick
DellaRatta Trio w/ Eddie Gomez and Lenny White
The
Artist Quarter – St Paul,
Minn. -
Trio w/ Eddie Gomez & Lenny White
The Red
Mill –
Milwaukee,
WI -
Trio w/ Eddie Gomez & Lenny White
Weeklong
engagement at Marianns Jazz Room – Berne,
Switzerland
–
Quartet
w/ Wayne Dockery, Sonny Fortune & Steve Johns
Weeklong
engagement at Ronnie Scotts – London
–
Quartet
w/ Wayne Dockery, Sonny Fortune & Victor Lewis
Tour of
Mainland and Kyushu -Japan, Ottawa Jazz Festival - Ottawa,
Canada -
Headliner Trio w / Billy Hart
Weber
Concert Hall - Dusseldorf, Germany -Nationally broadcasted
concert
–
Trio w/
Idris Muhhamad
Duc de
Lombards - Paris, France – The Rick
DellaRatta Trio
Presidential
Palace Performance – Helsinki
Finland –
Trio w/
Eddie Gomez & Lenny White.
Helsinki
Hall of Culture – Helsinki
Finland –
Trio w/
Eddie Gomez & Lenny White,
The Chet
Baker Jazz Club -
Bologna, Italy – The Rick
DellaRatta Trio
La
Salumeria Jazz Club -Milan, Italy – The Rick
DellaRatta Trio
Jamboree
Jazz Club – Barcelona,
Spain –
The Rick
DellaRatta Trio
Porgy and
Bess –
Vienna,
Austria
–
The Rick
DellaRatta Trio
The
Widder Bar – Zurich,
Switzerland
–
The Rick
DellaRatta Trio
Sofia
Jazz Festival- National Palace of Culture - Bulgaria,
Evolution
of Jazz Series - Hong Kong,
Concert
tour of Brazil,
Taketa
Jazz Festival – Japan,
Awards
2000
MAC Award Nominee
for "Recording Of The Year" for his double album live CD release titled "Live
in Brazil & The Blue Note" on Stella Records,
1999
MAC Award Nominee
for “Jazz Artist of the Year”,
1999
ASCAP Popular Award Winner,
1998
ASCAP Popular Award Winner,
1997
Back Stage Bistro Award Winner
- “Outstanding Singer/Instrumentalist.”
As a
Guest Artist/Clinician
Soul
School –
Kansas
City Jazz & Blues Festival – Kansas
City, Mo, Ostersund Music Conservatory – Sweden,
Hong Kong International School, NY University Music Appreciation Series, Mc Gill
University – Montreal,
Canada