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See how Jazz for Peace funding starts with a simple comment by viewing our comments page below! Have Questions? Watch our Latest Video, OR our Easy Instructional Video & Easy 3 Minute Grant Video and then simply submit your own honest comment to us by email ([email protected]) just like these people from around the world did below! This step completes Easy Letter A of our Easy Steps Process! Below are “See it to Believe it” Examples of actual comments submitted. See Many More Examples & FAQ’s here: http://jazzforpeace.org/moreexamples.pdf Daily Comments from around the world. Received September 22, 2021: “Amazing.” ~ Renee Redmond - NYC “great!” ~ Svetlana Karpunkina - Greece “Wow That’s great” ~ Gigi Adams - Canada September 21: “my congrats to Rick for the recognition of his achievement!” ~ Ike Ikokwu - Alpharetta, Georgia Sept. 20: “Very good song! Congratulations.” ~ Anne-Marie Paris-Leroy - Lille, France “Great performance!!!…I Love it” ~ Anelca Fairbairn - Netherlands Sept. 16: “Congrats….Keep the live music going.” ~ Manuel Santiago, Jazz club manager at Catalina Jazz Club - Los Angeles, California “Nice rendition!” ~ Ukpeme Okon - Nigeria (More September Breaking News: Rick DellaRatta PLAYS “Free J. A. Part 5” and SINGS a song by "Earth, Wind & Fire” on "Living your Best Life With Lady Myya!” https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=jJJRd_6GWag) “Well hey! You've actually been doing this for 20 years! Keep it up! Congratulations!” ~ Lydia Lowery Busler - Montpelier, Vermont Sept. 9: “big props to you singing that EWF song on the podcast. Killing ! Not many people can pull that off ;-) Well done, sir :-) “ ~ Leo Traversa - NYC (Commenting on our latest Podcast appearance: Rick DellaRatta PLAYS “Free J. A. Part 5” and SINGS a song by "Earth, Wind & Fire” on "Living your Best Life With Lady Myya!” ) Sept. 7: “I love it” ~ James Lidgett - Sweden “Very nice!” ~ Barbara Ricci - Yonkers, New York Sept. 4: “Terrific!” ~ Lydia Lowery Busler - Montpelier, Vermont “wonderful. Beautiful performance! Rick is a gem!” ~ Hossein Martin Fazeli - Vancouver (commenting on Featured Video of the Day: Jazz for Peace feat. Rick DellaRatta performs to help the Victims of New Orleans! https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DapPVgjTUo) Sept. 3: “Woah! That is a great achievement, congratulations” ~ GIDEON EDACHE SIMON - Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria (commenting on Breaking News: Rick DellaRatta named “EntreMusician” of the Month for September! https://theentremusician.com/entremunity) September 1: “Well done with your new projects and supporting those seriously affected by the climate change that no one ever wanted to believe in. Not sure how much more real it could be for them….” ~ Rona Carr - NYC August 30: “Excellent, really well done !” ~ Amanda Mitchell - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia August 29: “…good interviews, putting JFP on the map” ~ Peter DeRosa - Green Brook, NJ August 27: “Congratulations, this is great news to spread around! Thanks for letting me know.” - Ratzo Harris, NYC (commenting on: JFP celebrates 19th Anniversary with Breaking News: Rick DellaRatta has been named "EntreMusician of the Month" for September by “The Entrepreneurial Musician” with podcast appearance along with his performance of “FREE J.A. Part 4” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFJPJPY8z2s) August 26: “That was a great interview Rick. So glad to see you getting the recognition you deserve. You are so darn talented as a musician and a real force for change in the world. Rock On my friend!!” ~ “Guru” Dave Powers - Salt Lake City, Utah “I love it” ~ Shreejita Francis - New Delhi, India “I watched and listened to Rick's concert. Nice compositions, lyrics and performance. The Jazz For Peace is a wonderful idea. I hope it sees lots of success.” ~ Joe Parillo - North Kingstown, Rhode Island August 25: “I watched your Part 4 Interview. I loved it and found it very interesting. I hope you still go far with your music. Thanks so very much for mentioning our discussion, I felt honored.” ~ Vera Shafer - Schenectady, NY “awesome work Rick, I liked the video too. I watched, liked and subscribed.” ~ Salvatore Sebergandio - Los Angeles, California August 24: “Please join me celebrate with Rick DellaRatta , a wonderful man giving cheerfully his talent for lives saving. Congratulations, hopefully we in Nigeria are getting prepared as we use our unity platform Organizational Partnership for Humanity to invite your presence.” ~ Organizational Partnership for Humanity - Nigeria August 22: “wow. i love Rick!” ~ Cathy Segal-Garcia - Professional Jazz Singer, Voice Teacher, Composer, Producer -- Worldwide - Los Angeles, California “Very cool” ~ Carl Lester- El - Chester, Va. August 21: “Sounds good. A lot of heart.” ~ Alex Saltz - Queens, NY August 20: “The Episode Begins Airing Monday Aug 23. A Great Conversation!” In Light of Everything Happening In the World, Especially #Afghanistan, We talk with Rick DellaRatta who’s organization #JazzForPeace helps to empower EntreMusicians to become Catalysts For Change!~ Jere B, The EntreMusician - Youngstown, Ohio “….Rick Dellaratta!!! So Grateful for Your Time & Conversation….Thanks! Your Episode will air the week of the 22nd I will send links to podcast and YouTube and You will be The EntreMusician of The Month for September” - Jere B - Youngstown, Ohio (via text) August 19: “amazing!” ~ Bernard H. Flythe - Atlanta “Rick, I watched all three of your videos and liked number 3 the best, I found it very interesting how you talked about your family growing up and how you got started with your music career.” ~ Vera Shafer - Schenectady, NY “You are the best in the business.” ~ Erick DeLoach - “American Authors and Others” - Athens, Georgia “I think this is so wonderful song” ~ GULSHAN AKIN IBADOVA - Outwood, England August 18: “Thank you, Rick!!! Very cool.” ~ Roberta Donnay - Sausalito, California August 17: “It is wonderful Very very Beautiful “ ~ Alois Rostek - Berlin, Germany August 15: “Brilliantly Done!” ~ D.K. Grissett - Montgomery, Alabama August 12: “Awesome” ~ Moshe Knoll - NYC August 11: “GOD love Jazz For Peace. Awesome.” ~ Erick DeLoach - Athens, Georgia “Awesome” ~ Emmanuel Ogola - Kenya Grant Recipient from Memphis, Tenn. talks about here amazing event with Rick DellaRatta & Jazz for Peace™ at the beginning of this interview above and at this Memphis Testimonial below: PS - here’s what Rick told us about that event - please note I forgot to include some information that he had learned from also playing with a well known Memphis Bass player named Jamil Nasser: "on the plane to Memphis I kept thinking about how exciting it was to play there for the first time and also about how it really wasn't just a town where stars like Elvis Presley and Isaac Hayes came from but that it also had an incredible lineage of jazz musicians who developed there and then brought their distinct sound to New York. Most notably (at least to me) Pianists like Phineas Newborn, Harold Maybern, James Williams and Mulgrew Miller. But also some major names on saxophone that I especially liked such as Hank Crawford George Coleman and Frank Strozier. However once I got into the city and was on my way to the concert I kept thinking about a drummer named Tony Reedus. I got to the event early before anyone was there just to check out the space and the piano and once again the very first Memphis name coming to the top of my list was this drummer Tony Reedus who had passed away a few years ago. I kept wondering what kind of musicians I was going to be playing with on this day and if any of them were going to be of the lineage of these great jazz musicians who had come out of Memphis to make a name for themselves in New York. Finally a person comes in and start setting up his drums. I went up to introduce myself and he started telling me how excited he was to play with me and how he had been given the set of drums that I was now looking at by the wife of the deceased Jazz great Tony Reedus. This déjà vu moment immediately made me realize that I was really going to be "hitting with the right cats" at this concert and the music was magical. After the event the musicians took me to a club on the famous strip known as Beale Street where we hung out and jammed until the wee hours! Everything that I had wished for with this opportunity to really experience Memphis ended up coming true and it was just an amazing experience!” August10: (sent to JFP Admin Team Member Debra Cerritelli) “The article was great. Informative and inspiring. I also watched all of Rick's interviews with American Authors and Others. It was one of the best interviews I've ever seen! Rick is a great interviewee. Open, entertaining and inspiring :-)” ~ Hossein Martin Fazeli, Award Winning Documentary Film Maker, Fazeli Films Inc.- Vancouver, Canada August 9: “It was quite impressive watching the youtube and hearing of the great work done by Rick DellaRatta and Jazz for PEACE……please keep up these efforts to help release Julian Assange. All the best for your work,” ~ Constantine Pakavakis and Melbourne PEN - Melbourne, Australia “Hey Rick, I finally managed to watch the third segment of your interview. It was as great as the previous two segments with one difference, and that had to do with the fact that this was more personal than the other segments. Your openness about your life, your parents, your grandparents, how you grew up and the rest of it was exemplary. You’re a great interviewee :-) And I really enjoyed your stories. Each one is a great premise for a short film. From your grandfather being the godfather to all these kids without having enough money to pay for the parties and ceremonies to your acting stories, they all have something wonderful to offer.