The Jazz for Peace™ Podcast takes it to another level with this tribute to Dizzy Gillespie’s long time pianist with Special Guests Dorothy Longo and Frank Ponzio whose amazing stories about Mike inspired a polyrhythmic Musical Tribute by Rick to BOTH his former teacher Longo and most influential Mentor Gillespie. A MUST SEE EPISODE!
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Long known as one of the world’s finest Jazz Pianists, Rick DellaRatta also began to receive major recognition as a composer when his symphonic piece “Permutata” was recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra at the Beatles famed Abbey Rd., Studios in 1999, and as a unique and important vocalist in 2004 when he was included in a definitive listing of the greatest jazz singers of all time in Scott Yanow’s Book “Jazz Singers”. Through his life long endeavor to help advance people to their highest potential through the understanding of Jazz as well as spreading peace worldwide through his "Jazz for Peace World Tour", Rick DellaRatta is considered to be an innovator and a visionary, and included by The Foundation Center in their list of the top musician philanthropists of our time along with Bono (U2), Elton John, Peter Gabriel and Sting.
