People are suffering from so many things, depression, and all that kinds of stuff that they're suffering from, and rightly so sometimes because of the adversities and all that stuff.

 

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Our theme for 20 22 is the character of your character. So who you see when you look your values in the mirror? Now today we're talking our December core values of faith, hope, and joy with mister Rick Delorado.

 

Jazz for peace extraordinaire and I was ambassador around the world. So I'm pretty excited about this, but first, if you're new to the podcast, welcome And if you're a continuing listener, welcome back.

 

Without further ado, folks on Porter, I'm your host and this is transacting value. Alright, Rick. How you doing? Pretty good. Pretty good. Thanks so much. Oh, of course. And obviously, welcome to the show.

 

I'm sure you've got a busy schedule. So I appreciate you taking some time out to sit down and talk for a little bit. Yeah. Excited to be here and just glad to be a part of the good work you're doing. I appreciate you saying that.

 

Now while we're talking about good work people are doing, let's just zoom out for a second, Rick Delorada in most circles even around the world is pretty well known specifically in the jazz industry and music as a whole, but to people that aren't familiar with you, let's start with some relatability.

 

So I can see you here on the video. They don't even know you exist. So However, in-depth you wanna get, who is Rick Delorado?

 

Basically, I started out as a kid with a paper route and taking piano lessons. You know? Yeah. And 1 thing kinda led to another, and I was kind of being ambitious as a paper boy. I had, like, a couple of routes in the morning.

 

Then I had I think I was at the afternoon route. It was the afternoon newspaper. I got enough new customers to get a ski trip to, I believe it was, Montreal. It was it was Canada. So up near Montreal, little things like that.

 

But as I was doing that, 1 thing led to another. And, you know, I started to advance on the piano And, you know, I love sports too, but my homeroom teacher wanted me to play in a band with his sons.

 

It's like the school's dances. My mother wanted me to take over for her in the church, and some grown ups wanted me to play in their band that played private parties, weddings, all that kind stuff.

 

And so the next thing I know, I was too busy as a musician to really do anything else, you know, outside of my school work and, you know, playing basketball with the kids whatever. Yeah. So from there, I've been a musician.

 

That's been it. The only other job I had was the Paper Boy, And and, of course, recently, I branched into acting, which was something I always wanted to be, but, you know, never thought I would have the time for that.

 

Yeah. But, anyway, I'll start then came this long journey with music through lots of all kinds of studies and classical music, and pop music, and funk music, and jazz music, of course.

 

Jazz, I learned it was a lifetime study something that just never ends. The sighted never ends. I would be a student of music just like I would eventually become hopefully a student of life.

 

Mhmm. So as I grew as a musician, you know, hopefully, I was growing as a person. That was kind of suggest of it. And I started to learn things as I started traveling because music really started taking me places.

 

In in terms of physically, all over the country, all over the world, and just lots of different places, lots of different people, nationalities.

 

And I saw that music transcendent in a positive way. Every single 1 that could possibly hold us back was transcended by music, whether it was language barriers, or cultural barriers Creed, whatever it was, you name it, religious.

 

I mean, any kind of thing you could mention could be transcended by music.

 

And so I started to come to the conclusion that, you know, music really has an ability to address problems in our world, heal them, bring people together in a positive way, and possibly work problems that are on the horizon that are gonna hit us if we don't solve these problems.

 

So I started to kind of become impregnated with this knowledge. So I feel like a bloated woman after a while because I had all this knowledge And I'm like, how am I gonna get this out?

 

You know? Yeah. I need to get this out. People need to know this. And if they're not gonna know it, someone needs to tell them. And if this no one's gonna tell them, I better start telling them.

 

Yeah. And I just didn't know what to do and then came the event of 09:11. And then on that day, I was in a very weird situation where I was living less than a quarter of a mile from the World Trade Center -- Oh, wow.

 

-- and I had access to the roof of the apartment building. I was on the fifth floor. It was only a 5 quarter building.

 

Uh-huh. And so I used to just go up on the roof for fun, you know. I just did little stairs and you're on the roof. Yeah. But I went on the roof and there I was right in front of the thing and watching it.

 

And it was just so shocking. What could you do? And what could you do? Like, the only thing I could do was kind of this starting to give birth, like, words started coming out of me.

 

Yeah. You know what I mean? It's like I went into what do they call that? 5 upload your water verse. I don't know what they call it. Labor. Labor. Yeah. Yeah. Literally, because words started coming out. That's what happened.

 

And I'm like, Jesus, I just I'm gonna write these words down. All I had at the end of that day was a handful of words that just came out on a piece of paper. So I had what was really a poem. And I called it Jasper Pete.

 

The whole country was shut down. And 2 weeks later, approximately, at least 2 weeks they finally started opening up for you to get on a plane to go somewhere, and it was just in time for me to go to where I had to play.

 

I had to play at a jazz festival in Savannah, Georgia. It was called the Savannah jazz festival. And attendant well attended.

 

You know, I was told it's gonna be at least 8500 people there. I don't even know what the whole total was, but it was we're talking to that many people at least. Sure. And I was a headliner at it. So there's a lot of people there.

 

And what was I gonna do? Well, I recited to follow-up. Now recited with music like you played alongside or just Yeah. I didn't. It wasn't music. It was just a poem. Okay. All at once was the words that I wrote on that room.

 

Yeah. I just grabbed a piece of paper when I left to get on his lane, and then I read it, you know. But when I got back, I got a phone call from people in Upstate, New York, where I had my next concert.

 

And that was at a place called Troy Music Hall, which is another big kind of very gorgeous setting, really great acoustics, and somewhat of a prestigious engagement.

 

And the promoters of that were like, hey. We just heard that you decided this poem. What's up with that? You know? They said it was emotionally felt, and people were crying, and they were just blah blah blah blah.

 

And they said, there any chance you'll put that to music. Yeah. I said, you know, maybe maybe by that day, I'll have it to music. It was, like, they're kinda putting the bug in itself. So I put it to music.

 

I put it to something, and we opened the show. Yeah. So and they had asked me to recite it like a reporter had asked me to say what the words were. Mhmm. In a pre he went a pre article. So the article came with the words. Yeah.

 

And then At the concert, we opened the show with Jazz repeat. And then after that came articles that said, Delrada opens the show with Jasper Pete. What I mean? Nice. So it just it was almost like fate was moving me along, you know.

 

So now I found myself in a situation where I had this publicity. And like I said, with the idea of jazz and music in general, but especially jazz because it's a universal language of music that's spoken up everywhere in the world.

 

Yeah. Yeah. Across all these barriers, I had this idea because I had done it before.

 

Anyway, I had been in jam sessions or whatever in people's houses where there were people from different countries who had come here to study jazz, and they're supposed to be at war technically, but certainly not in this room.

 

You know what I mean? They're playing music and getting along just fine.

 

They don't have anything against each other. So I had asked my manager I said, listen, can you just call the United Nations and show them these articles, show them this poem, show them all the things I've done, you know -- Yeah.

 

-- that I traveling all over the road, play with all these bands, opening extra physical, let's be, you know, a pianist with a RD shaw, the platter, show them all the things that come.

 

And tell them I wanna do something where I bring these cultures together.

 

My idea was Palestinians, Israelisians and Americans, for sure. You know what I mean? Yeah. And then scrolling a couple other guys. But I wanted to say the Israelis and Palestinians playing music at the United Nations together.

 

When was this? This was literally right after 09:11. I started it. And so the actual concert that took plates at the United Nations when they finally agreed to it, and it all came through.

 

I had to get a couple of sponsors. That was in September of the following year. So 09:11 was 2001. Right. I see 09:11 was 2001. And September 20 fifth -- 2002.

 

-- 2 -- Crazy. -- was a concert at the United Nations. With me bringing Israeli's Palestinians and Americans and a couple of other, you know, country dot com Oh, that's powerful. Now I thought it was. Yeah. I thought it was.

 

You know, just to me, I'm like, if someone ever told me I was I could do something like this, Like, I just signed up in a minute. Right? Yeah. It was a big achievement for me. And I thought, who knows maybe someone will recognize it?

 

Because at the event, you know, we sent out press release and all that stuff. But there wasn't a lot of press there. I mean, they should have been there. I was talking about the CNN of the associated press, whatever.

 

Something. And someone actually came up to me and said, this is so amazing what you're doing. And I said, yeah. Well, I don't see a lot of and they said, well, you know, 1 person said that he's He said, see those bleachers over there?

 

I said, yeah. I said, you know, if a bomb exploded on those bleachers and some people died, you'd get all the press you ever want.

 

And I was kinda like, that's so sad, you know, that it would take that. It would take human tragedy to get these companies -- Coverage. Yeah. -- mentioned it.

 

But I didn't realize at the time that and nobody really did that our media is run by it's sponsors, and those are companies that sell products. And it's just, like, this doesn't fit into you know It's it's tough for marketing.

 

Yeah. I've I've heard this similar and truthfully on a smaller scale, I understand exactly where you're coming from. Talking about values or character development is not a popular culture topic.

 

You know having a a big talk themed conversation or in the same sense as jazz for peace is doing for hope and kindness and overall peace is not popular. Pessimism is more seductive, threats, action, explosions, Michael Bay type stuff.

 

Is seductive and gets ratings and gets notoriety. It's tough. That's the problem. So people buy started out with the idea, oh, we're gonna do all these good things with our channel.

 

But then they realized we're competing against so and so for ratings and the people will turn their TV on if there's a shock value, you know, or something like that. That's the thing. Right?

 

In marketing some of this stuff, I don't have near Reach or the impact necessarily yet that you did in 2002, but depending on how it's themed and framed, there's an Israeli Palestinian conflict I think it was right around the same time that was substantially noticed.

 

And then to say with just as much shock value, Yeah.

 

Well, here, they may be killing each other and arguing or whatever. Here, they're not. They're collaborating and they're working together. Alrighty, folks. Sit tight, and we'll be right back on transacting value. Alrighty, folks.

 

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I think it was right around the same time that was substantially noticed And then to say with just as much shock value, yeah, well, here, they may be killing each other and arguing or whatever, here, they're not.

 

They're collaborating and they're working together.

 

You know what I mean? And that's why I wanted to know that if you wanna solve this problem, here is a starting point because you're staring at Israelis and Palestinians getting along right now perfectly -- Uh-huh.

 

-- on the stage. Yeah. In fact, contributing to the success of this event together. Oh, yeah. Directly. Right. And both of those musicians came up to me privately. That same day.

 

And they said, Rick, you have to realize what you're doing is so amazing they're so moved by it. And they said, I would love to go on tour with this. I believe it would just be so credible. The world could see this blah blah blah.

 

But then the Israeli once said, if you do take it on tour, I can play the gigs in Israel but not the ones in Palestine. Oh, wow. And the Palestine guy from Lebanon he came up and said, very similar.

 

He said, Brexley, gotta keep going with it. This is incredible. It was such a blah blah blah. And he said, you know, now if you go over there, you should. You gotta perform the list.

 

But just so you know, I can do the gigs and I can't I when you go I can't so I can't they just wouldn't. They just could not that's when I was so shocked because you guys are telling me that you can sit here like this.

 

You're literally friends and you're making music together, but you cannot appear on stage in each other's countries with each other. Now some of that That's better.

 

Some of that not to cut you off too much in derail your train of thought, but I've noticed some of that where it's sort of a perspective limitation that I have a bias that I have in my experience or deployments or whatever like we can get along and we can talk here.

 

Why couldn't you guys get along and talk there on various patrols in in other moments in previous deployments that Is it that's not the point?

 

Like, you don't understand this is our culture. This is thousands of years old. This is hundreds of years in the making. This isn't you developed nation perspective and biases and assumptions in the moment identifying.

 

It's that simple, like, yes, but says easy does hard. So that was something interesting I learned and it sounds like that's And then there's also issues where the countries are at war not necessarily the people.

 

This happens sometimes too when we get 2 countries at war. And the people are at war. And the country is trying to get the people to hate each other. Yeah. Yeah. Di diplomatic concerns, political concerns, and leverage.

 

Yeah. So sure. So you have these issues. I mean, not to be this shouldn't even be controversial, but you see all the time I see stuff on the news that says the United States wants to prosecute Julian Assange.

 

Right? Sure. Who, you know, for basically because he released footage of civilians being bombed. You know what I mean? So -- Yeah. -- you know, they'd wanna prod you.

 

But wait a minute now where aren't we supposed to be a government of the people by the people for the people? What happened to that statement? And aren't I in the United States? Aren't you in the United States? Isn't he in it?

 

You know? Mhmm. So you're saying United States, you're saying me. You know, who who actually is it? You read things where you say, this country wants to do that. But if none of the people in that country want to do that Yeah.

 

I see what you're saying. Is it actually direct representation then? Yeah. Because if you took a vote and you got 0 percentage of something, how could you say that that country wants to do this? Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't make any sense.

 

In fact, when you try to find out the names of the people, it's easy to find the names of people who want nothing to deal with it. Sure. I mean, go up to somebody and say, do you would you like to sacrifice freedom of speech?

 

Would you like the bombings of civilians to go unreported, you'll get a resounding no. Good luck finding somebody that would say they don't want freedom of speech anymore. Yeah. Right? Good luck.

 

You can find a million people that say, no. You can't find anyone that say yes. As anyone, would you, like, the bombing of civilians, women and children, to go unreported. Yes. And good luck finding someone who's gonna say Yeah.

 

I would like that to be what? Yeah. Everybody would wanna know. Where are you gonna find somebody? Right. Where are you gonna find somebody? But yet, you'll still see a document saying that the United States that's all of us.

 

You're not being truthful if you're calling up the United states, and you're saying that all of us want something. Mhmm. That none of us want. You know what I mean? So who does Who are you talking about?

 

Who are the names of the people you're talking about? Well, you can't find that out either. Mhmm. In other words, they won't say who does want this. But they will say the entire country of which we all know doesn't Right.

 

Well, and there's a lot of that sort of collectivism when it comes to attribution for all sorts of things, whatever whatever's done, whatever's diplomatically encouraged, whatever in the middle, that well, for that matter, even in the marine corps.

 

Right? The Marine Corps did this. The Marine Corps did that. This is the fault of the Marine Corps.

 

Like, okay, maybe as an institution in certain circumstances, but that doesn't mean it is every single marine in the organization to say that this is what's a direct representation of what we all think or feel.

 

So I I see where you're coming from. And there is a little bit of that.

 

But to a certain degree, being able to identify from different perspectives whatever that collective point is, that, okay, I don't agree with every detail of it or every aspect of it, but I do have a certain loyalty to this overall organization to say, I'll back you but in this regard.

 

I'll back you but in this perspective or from this point of view.

 

Unfortunately, in the military that's a limited opportunity, but as a whole to your point, the capability is still there. You know? And so to say, for example, the war on terror over the last 20 years or prior to it ending, I suppose.

 

But over the last 20 years, In the Middle East, the US is getting involved in another war, yes, as a country, yes, diplomatically, yes, politically, yes financially, economically, and all the above.

 

But That doesn't mean that every citizen of the United States is now going to war. Right? That doesn't mean every citizen of the United States supports that war effort.

 

Right. Or for that matter is against that war effort. It's it's not all encompassing. Problem is when nobody does. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, you know, in Vietnam, you could find some people who supported it.

 

There was a lot of people who didn't. We know that. But it wasn't as lopsided as freedom of speech, let's say, or the reporting of the bombing of innocent women and children into them.

 

Right? I mean, that's real upside. It could be as low as 0. You know what I mean? So it's 1 thing, I mean, First of all, you're making a point that in the Vietnam situation, well, the United States is at war with so and so.

 

Okay. You can find some people in the United States. You know, that we're -- Mhmm. -- backing that war up, you could also find a lot that we're against it.

 

So you had a divided country. But there's not even much division with things like freedom of our basic rights. Yeah. Of course. Well and even to that though, I think it gets very difficult difficult.

 

It's not a good word. It gets very heated, very divisive when you start talking about, at least in the US, different freedoms or things that are the hot button topics of the the decade, I guess, or of that year, you know.

 

Even now critical race theory abortion rights I don't know, drugs, NRA and weapons, whatever, all all sorts of different considerations that it's almost like as soon as those topics come up, it's impossible to have a conversation on a bigger scale because everybody shuts off picks sides or doesn't say a word.

 

When in reality, much like this podcast and what you're doing through jazz, that doesn't mean you can't have a conversation. That means you gotta respect each other's difference of opinions.

 

Right. And understand there's different perspectives that come into play, but respecting the fact that because we're humans, we can have different perspectives and differences of opinion And that's okay.

 

Well, and the other thing you're bringing up is you use the word human.

 

And that's kind of important right now because a lot of times when you're online, you find out you're not really arguing with another human or debating another sometimes.

 

You're participating. Sometimes it's like a bot -- Yeah. -- or it's a paid representative. Yeah. It could be. Like yeah. A paid representative of a pharmaceutical so you're not even hearing their personal perspective.

 

It's not 2 people talking about person to person. You know what I mean? You're talking with a paid representative of a company. Mhmm. You know what I mean? That's pushing an agenda, and it not even that person that you're dealing with.

 

And sometimes it's not even the sex. It's not even that person. In other words, it's a fake name. Yeah. Yeah. It's a fake email. I saw something that I don't like to get involved in it because I just you know, it's so absurd sometimes.

 

But sometimes I just get rattled a little bit, and I have to say to somebody listen this was done a site called Quora, which has a lot of very personal issues on it where people talk about things.

 

You know? Any kind of personal thing, it could be health issue. It could be a emotional issue. It could be a so before us, it could be dating. It could be family.

 

You know, it could be anything. Mhmm. Any kind of topic. And After a while, the the person got up in sense to say things that you would never hear a woman say. She had a, you know, a woman's name. And she's talking like a guy.

 

And then she was posing as a soccer mom kind of person. You know? Like, I don't really know anything. I just take my kids to soccer kinda thing. Okay. But then she starts doing a big corporations talking to You follow me?

 

Yeah. Beeling them out like a encyclopedia. You know? Now you're not a soccer mom. You are representative. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then when I started to post links, I said, listen.

 

I'm just backing up my stuff with fax Here's the link. Here's the fax. You're shooting the messenger here. I'm not even, you know Dude, the problem with the problem with that though is how do you know their fax?

 

Is the pushback you get. Right? Like, you're saying their facts based on your perspective. I don't recognize them as facts. Like, we'll I mean, like, if we're gonna sit here to debate logic this conversation has to be over.

 

We're just gonna argue. Right. But the respective position, at least I think, that should be encouraged like I said, similar to what you're able to do with music is transcend logical boundaries of this.

 

Right? The the focus isn't to say history will write these facts, guaranteed that's what happened, like not necessarily the case.

 

Realistically, if we're talking about a society of humans on this planet, and the longevity of its growth in progress.

 

Understanding that what I view as facts to back my opinion and what you view as facts to back your opinion is how we progress.

 

I don't have to agree with everything you're saying. I just have to be able to communicate with you to accomplish mutual goals.

 

Right. Well, that why when you bring music into it, it's so much better than when you're just 2 people knocking heads verbally. Yeah. You know what I mean? The music softens it because you're both on the same wavelength.

 

You know what I mean? Yeah. Well, that's it. Said, you're not talking logic anymore, but you're not even really trying to appeal or persuade emotionally because that can get tenuous also.

 

It's almost like a spiritual connection that overlaps all of it. And everybody resonates in their own way with that frequency, I guess, metaphorically, are actually to gain traction.

 

And find some wholesome fulfillment. Right. And see, the bottom line is you could be 2 sides that are against other. Yeah. You know, a lot of times when people are against each other, it's because they it's the oil type.

 

No. They want bad oil, you know, they're you know what I mean? They're fighting over resources. You know, they're fighting over they want something.

 

But both sides will want what's good for children. I mean, there are humanitarian things that are universal. Yeah. You know? And so you know, we're able to bring that together. You know, we're able to unite them.

 

We've had a lot of events where both the Republican and Democratic party came out. You would see some of these guys if you dug around, and you'd see them coming out viciously against each other in public over issues.

 

But I would tell people, like, you know, click on this and check out this link, and it'll open up to 1 of those pamphlets the little booklet that you'll get and -- Sure.

 

-- with all the stuff in it, I said, look, that guy, that's the Republican senator.

 

That's the Democratic number. That's the that's and you'd see all these people that wouldn't get along, but they're both coming together for this upstanding cause.

 

And they're both making statements too about why they're supporting it. Yeah. Well, that's what helps with music. And all of their reasons are just as good. Yeah. You know, they're both saying the same thing.

 

You know, they say stuff about jazz for peace. We appreciate jazz for peace in the benefit concert series, helping all these outstanding causes, We love this poor organization in our community that's helping children and blah blah blah.

 

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Definitely. And that's the benefit oh, that's a benefit of music. Right?

 

It sort of adds temperance and grounding to whatever incivility may exist and then encourages civility and communication and understanding, which may or may not affect anything to either of their platforms directly, but indirectly humanity's not lost.

 

And it maintains hope, gives people something to latch onto, and and even ultimately in my opinion creates a sense of joy that you can scale.

 

And I think that's invaluable. But Rick, before we get too much further into this, let's take a break for a couple minutes and then when we get back, we'll jump more specifically into jazz for peace if you're cool with that.

 

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I'm your host. We're sitting with Rick Delorada. Covering all sorts of stuff, but primarily the importance of music, jazz specifically, as it applies to faith, hope, joy, and ultimately cultivating peace around the world.

 

So first off, before we get to anything else, Rick, welcome back, man. Thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah. No problem. And, you know, there was a point where we left off.

 

Earlier, we were talking about essentially representation of the people and how that can sway you know, mass media or public opinion or just overall sentiment in any particular scalable aspect, and it's not new.

 

It's just moving faster than we're used to, primarily likely due to the Internet and social media and, you know, whatever buzzword buzzword applies here But it's not new.

 

Matter of fact, there's a guy I was talking to a buddy of mine a couple weeks ago. And we were talking about modern political theory, which you know, I get it as a hot button conversation in most family dinners.

 

But as we were sitting there talking, there's a guy named Thomas Hobbs and he wrote paper, essentially, a lecture called the Leviathan.

 

And essentially, it's just a a political entity that exists how do people in this particular document minimize conflict and maximize democracy?

 

We're talking like seventeenth century. Okay? And how do you decide who gets the surrendered authority of the people?

 

Because by voting, you're saying I am delegating my say, to be represented by somebody else. And ultimately, that body of legislators will determine what happens and I have to accept that.

 

Now the flip side of that, the counterpoint that Thomas Hobbs made not to get too far into this but was what that means is you're agreeing to somebody else to win an argument or political position or legislation before you.

 

But that also means if you lose you accept the loss.

 

That's the mark of maturity and modernity and civility. Right? I thought it was an interesting point since that's what we're talking about earlier. I just wanna make sure I brought it up that it's not a new thing.

 

The fact that you're using music to communicate through that wall I think is new and ultimately inspirational but for anybody that just tuned in, that's where we left off.

 

And so to pull all that together sorry, Rick, to pull all that together, I wanna give you the floor for a little bit.

 

To talk about just for peace as an organization, not specifically your poem, to talk about jazz for peace in terms of concert considerations.

 

And maybe if you're up to it, 2 or 3 minutes, maybe you could play something too. Sure. That sounds great. Really, what we wanna do is extend to the point you made that these things were all going on.

 

And what we wanna do is now send that. Mhmm. So for example, you know, music being a communicator. This has been going on for not only no since the beginning of time.

 

What we wanna do with Jazz, for example, they used to have something where they would send to me as Jazz. These actually were called goodwill ambassadors. Uh-huh. And Louis Armstrong was 1 of these.

 

Busy Gillespie was 1 of these. And they were goodwill ambassadors, and they were sent out by the US to perform in these different countries to kind of bring goodwill and show a sign that we're all on the same humanitarian team here.

 

And so jazzarpiece is an extension of that. We wanna take the foundation that those great jazz musicians laid and that program laid and now use it to not only spread goodwill but also to support outstanding causes.

 

Okay. And so every event around the world is for an outstanding cause. We feel like when we help an outstanding cause, we're not just helping 1 person, but we're helping everyone that that outstanding cause is reached.

 

So like a nonprofit organization or like an actual cause that somebody promotes or you pick something? What can you clarify that? Well, every single event is for a different 1. For example, let's take Rwanda Africa for example.

 

That was a situation where the government itself wanted to open the country back up to the world because they felt that they had recovered from the genocide that took place 14 years earlier where over a million people were massacre.

 

And And that their country was now ready for the world to see them and welcome them back into the world economically. Horrorism, all that kind of stuff.

 

And so they did that through Unistep. Unistep was the organization that was working with them together, and they decided to contact Jazz for Pete to do 2 concerts. And Amahoro is the African word for Pete.

 

So what they had was Amaharu week, peace week. Oh, that's cool. And they had us come out there and they also had people come from all over the world as a marathon runners, and so they had a piece marathon.

 

World peace marathon. So but that was like I told you off camera earlier, that was 1 totally unique event.

 

They also had African act on the show on the program. Yeah. And a very strange thing happened where I fell asleep backstage after performing 1 of because I had jet lag and all that.

 

And I also drank a very large African beer that I wanted to try. Yeah. Sure. I love it. And had a picture of a elephant on it.

 

I wanna try to and I had jet lag. And I fell asleep. When I got up, I tried to walk across the stage. All these people in the audience now started pointing to me, And the musicians were kind of what I'm like, what do I do?

 

And I saw the keyboard player had you know, he had, like, multiple keyboards I was like, okay. I could probably attempt this. And I just walked over. I walked over to where the keyboard player was. Yeah, man.

 

Come on. Join us. Hey. And I just looked at his hands. I looked at what he was doing. And I said, I don't know this song, but I know what a e minor is. Oh. That's final status. And I know what this will sound if I play that over this.

 

So I just started cheating. We know it was almost like a cheat that you're looking at the answer. So I'm looking at his hands and I'm like, okay. That's the harmony. I'm gonna do this over that. There you go. It's gonna make sense.

 

Yeah. And the people were like, oh my god. What is the feeling that they never heard that in front of their song. Yeah. I never even heard the song. I just knew that I could add to that harmony that that band was playing.

 

Yeah. So it got wild. And the other musicians were, like, I didn't know Rick knew African songs, and they ran up on stage and we all started jamming together. So that was, like, a big highlight. Yeah.

 

Yeah. By total accident. You know? It's the benefit of improv. Yeah. It is. It is. So but anyway, that's a unique moment. And then the next day, we had to perform for all the dignitaries. Oh. But word had gotten around and forget it.

 

I mean, we were lucky to get that performance off because they had all these new people that wanted to come and they were standing outside, and they had to put some cables in, they had to move things around, and almost had to do a little construction to make that place to fit everybody.

 

Yeah. But that's, like, they're all different stories. So that 1 was for Unifin.

 

But let's take Pakistan. Pakistan came through Pakistan is a illiterate country. 90 percent illiteracy. And who knows this? I didn't know it. I didn't know it. I had no idea. And so we were back and forth with these people.

 

And most, like, a 4 profit company would just be like, I'm sorry. We can't you know, there's nothing we can do. But we are trying to live up to our word. So if you write to us, we will work with you.

 

If you if you stay on board with us, we will keep working you. You know what I mean? We'll keep trying and hang in there even if we don't think anything's gonna happen. It's just that's who we are.

 

We are who we say we are. Yeah. So I'm like, this will never in a million years come through, but I'm not gonna stop unless you stop. I will keep working with you probably till the end of time, and it'll never happen.

 

But I'll keep doing it. Yeah. So now we're at this impasse where the people are interested, but there's a problem with their current see and that they buy the VIP ticket and all that kind of stuff, what I'm gonna explain to you.

 

So we needed some sponsors just to help with these tickets to buy the VIP tickets Yeah. For the people. Some guy, somewhere in the state of Washington, and he worked at a Walmart.

 

Okay. And his passion is literacy. He believes that a lot of problems in the world are because people don't even know how to read, so they have few choices in mind.

 

Well, he had really focused on this area of Pakistan, and he was like, but if you wanna stop terrorism, people joining terrorist groups, he said they don't have any choice.

 

You do got to promote literacy. So he was like, I have done my research and the best way for me to address literacy the most bang for my sponsorship buck is to sponsor this event.

 

Oh. Because you're gonna go over there And, you know, it's gonna create publicity around the world. It's gonna create you know, all these things are gonna happen.

 

And so many people are gonna be able to learn how to read because of this event and all it's gonna draw and the excitement and the positive influence it's gonna have on the people blah blah blah.

 

So he just came out of nowhere and became that piece of the puzzle that was missing.

 

And it came together? Yeah. So now I'm like, oh my god. Well, I guess I'm gonna have to go there. I was thinking I have to worry about that. You know? Yeah.

 

Sure. Because when you start out in this, you're not, like, thinking I'm gonna fly into Pakistan. You know what I mean? Probably not. Yeah. I mean yeah. I mean, they were holding that guy captive at that time that walked off the base.

 

I just got his name. We'll talk about Obergdahl. Obergdahl. Ball Bergdahl. I played an event not far from him. Mhmm. That's crazy. In Pakistan. Yeah. And I had a flying in the middle of the night, and that's another thing.

 

The amount trust that people will have. There's more trust with me and people, you'd be scared to yada, your mind if trust, you know, you don't even know. Then I can find right out out in the street here.

 

There's people that don't trust each other getting in and out of a cab. Over on 40 second Street. You know what I mean? Yep. They had me in these cars with the look like the mafia car, you know, where you can see out, they can't see it.

 

Oh, sure. Yeah. And going in and out of these schools and the kids were, like, throwing. But my point is, that was totally unique, you know, and those people are still in touch.

 

That's crazy. Don't be surprised. They'll listen to this event. They might even put a comment under your whatever it is. You might even see them. Listen to the event thing.

 

Well, I hope we do, man. Like, you know, what jazz is able to do that English can't is transcend language barriers? But -- They were transcending them all. -- yeah. And what what these topics can do though is help build notoriety.

 

Because literacy isn't in my opinion just explicitly being able to read the sounds your language makes. But also being able to comprehend other sounds and topics that other languages make.

 

And I think this is definitely an opportunity for that for, you know, values, character development, literacy, building trust communication and ultimately through music, which saying that.

 

Jazz for peace has a structure and in the last sort of couple minutes we've got, so there's time for you to play too. Could you do a quick overview of this is ultimately how this comes together? I think it's around 7 steps or something?

 

Sure. Here's how these events come together anywhere, whether it's Virginia Beach where I told you we've performed before where you are -- Yeah. -- to Pakistan, to Nigeria where I was last month. Basically, it's patterned after a tree.

 

It starts out with a comment someone looked at our program, and that's what happened. Someone looked at our program in Pakistan. They were watching our videos, and they wrote to us, I don't remember their comment. I'd have to read it.

 

But it was a comment. It was an honest comment from their heart, what they thought. Sometimes it's only a couple of words. Sometimes it's a full sentence. Sometimes it's 2 sentences. Sure. You know? But it's a comment.

 

So now we took that comment, we put it into a letter so they wanna show it to their board member. They wanna show it to their supporters. They wanna show it to their volunteers. They wanna show it to friends and family that they have.

 

You see what I mean? Yep. So that person and let's say it was a podcast. And we put it in a format that people could read it and see, oh, they wanted to hear what they've done all over the world for all these other people.

 

They're gonna come to our city and do that for this outstanding cost. It shows them a number of things.

 

It shows them 1 that we have been doing this for 20 years, And 2, that we wanna come and do it for this outstanding cause that's in their community, that they might be on the board of or that they might be a friend or family member of support or of, and 3 that they will be VIP guest of honor at the event.

 

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Again, you can find me at the b and the Bear creations on Facebook. Look forward to helping you create your custom item. It shows them a number of things. It shows them 1 that we have been doing this for 20 years.

 

And 2, that we wanna come and do it for this outstanding cause that's in their community. That they might be on the board of or that they might be a friend or family member of supporter of.

 

And 3, that they will be VIP gets the honor at the event receiving all of the perks and amenities that other VIPs have received at other events from sponsors.

 

So when you're a VIP often, but there's a beverage sponsor, you'll be getting free beverages. If there's a food sponsor, you'll be getting free food -- Sure.

 

Sure. -- if there meet and greet ceremony, which are always this, you'll be invited to a special little meet and greet. If there's preferred seeding, you'll be getting that. If there's gifts, sometimes you'll be getting a gift bag.

 

You know, you'll be getting all these things as a VIP, so there's a lot in it for you. Yeah. So now they simply give that person their comment. Now that person is like, okay. Jas repeat, listen.

 

Here's my comment here, but here's comment of my 4 board members or my 3 partners. Yeah. Here's comments of some of my friends that love this thing to shows you it's worth the time and effort to continue pushing. Yeah.

 

Yeah. So here's the list. Here's the VIP list. Sure. Let's say as little as 15 comments. Let's even I'm just gonna give you bare minimum because we get a VIP list of 50. Yeah. But here's the the IP list of 15 of my friends and buddies.

 

It could be hey. My guys over at the barrett, you know? They looked at it. They gave me their comment. Here's 15, names and comments, they sent it to Jasmine. That's pretty easy.

 

That's step b. Step a is your comment. Yep. Easy. Right? Step b is the comments of your various members or -- Sure. Yeah. -- or at the the marines or whatever. You show whatever you sort it could be as little as 15 names.

 

I'm dead serious. We look at the comments, and we can see but they're all good some of them are really like some of these people were like, whoa. I get it. Like, this is a game changer here.

 

This could be a really you know what I mean? Yeah. Now we work with that person and maybe talk to those people and say, hey, listen. You see that you're practically gonna get paid to come to this effect.

 

When you add up all of the things, the VIP things, the sponsors, you know, the gift you're probably gonna get paid, you know, and you can see that it's a great event.

 

It's not your average Joe event. Would you be willing to help this organization expand their support base, expand their donor.

 

Sure. Yeah. Get word out. By inviting your closest friends -- Yeah. -- some of your family members. Some of you see what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. And let's say you get as little as 5 of those people.

 

Okay? 5 of those people. So now guess what you have. You have your VIP list But those 5 people will take that letter and do what you did. Don't send it to their friends -- Mhmm. -- collect their names and comment.

 

I need your name and comment because I want you to be a VIP at this thing. Great. Give me your name. You know what I mean? Yeah. Or they just agree to it. Listen, put me down, whatever. So your comment could be put me down.

 

I'm in. Put me down. I'm in. That's your comment. Yeah. You know, he submits his Vipulance. So guess what you have. You have 5 more VIP list. Yep. Okay? And we're going lowest case scenario here. So that's 15. 30, right, 60.

 

Yep. Wait a minute. 90. That's 90 people. Yeah. That's 90 VIPs. And it wasn't that hard. Yep. You know what I mean? It was just you and 5 others doing exactly what you did making your VIP list. Mhmm. But now you've got 90 people.

 

But wait a minute, nobody goes to world class cultural events all by themselves. Mhmm. Follow me. Yeah. Yeah. So they're gonna bring they're not gonna leave their wife at home or their significant other or whatever.

 

If they're single, they're gonna wanna bring a date Yeah. They might even wanna break their mother because she get her out of the house.

 

Yeah. Bringers. He loves gas. You know? Hey, this guy played with Arty Shah. Remember? Oh, Arty Shah? The begin the big you know? You know what I mean? Get someone brings away. So they're gonna bring at least 1 person.

 

Now don't get me wrong. Some of these people will play wait a minute. Can I get 4 pairs of VIP tickets? My neighbors wanna come blah blah blah. But, anyway, we're they're just going to minimum here.

 

You've got 90, but they're buying a pair of tickets each. Mhmm. So you've got a hundred and 80 VIP. A hundred and 80 DIDs. Right? Now lowest case scenario, okay, when we started this, back in 20 years ago.

 

The tickets were 25 dollars. Yeah. Right? So let's just go low with k 60. We've had people pay a hundred dollars for VIP ticket. We've had them do that. They'd call us up and say, listen. Hey. Can we make some money here?

 

Yeah. Will they yes. They'll pay for it. Let us yes. We're gonna let you do it. Do that's what it's all about. Sure. But I'm just giving you lowest pitch. Now you've got a hundred and 80 times 25, you'd have to do the math.

 

But let's just say 200 times 25. Right? Sure. That 2500 bucks. Right. Isn't it? Well, 4000 have changed, but still thousands of dollars. Yeah. So that's my point. So now you're gonna collect that money from the VIP in advance.

 

That enables you to confirm your event. Not only are you getting a free event fundraiser. Don't forget now. We've had organizations call us up and tell us, you're telling us this is a free event because we just had our event.

 

I said, well, how much did it cost? Cost us 12000 dollars our event to put on the event. No. You have a free event now. You see what I mean?

 

You know, not only do you have a free event. But you've got a hundred and 90 people coming at a minimum already committed. And you've got some money raised in your bank account. Mhmm. So you have a confirmed event at no cost to you.

 

With funds already raised for you and in your bank account. And that's only the beginning -- Mhmm. -- of the process. Right? So when people look at our program and say it sounds too good to be true, well, this is where we started.

 

So this event already, I could get a testimonial from these people. Yeah. You know what I mean? Sure. Already, I could probably get somebody to say, Damn.

 

Just repeat. You guys thank you so you know, that was great. But we just started that's just the roots of the tree. This is our motto. Help us plant the roots so we can grow your empowerment tree.

 

Very simple model. Help us plant the roots so we grow your power tree. So now we're able to work on these branches. Okay? So now branch number 2 is other sustainable things that people need.

 

Mhmm. Because all these people many of these people that come to this event now at the VIP level are gonna be like, you know what? I wanna stay on this train. Don't kick me off this train here.

 

You know, this was fun. This was great. I got to meet you. I got to learn about your podcast. Now it's time for branch number 2. That's local business sponsors. Because we want that outstanding cost to have a place in the community.

 

Even if it has a place, we want that place to live. Because the more ingrained you are with the community, the better. Of course. Because you're an outstanding because you're serving the community.

 

That's your point. We land those sponsors. Now you're ready to promote that event. So we've got the local business sponsors We have the venue. We have the date. We have the VIPs.

 

You've got a full package for the media to see. I see. That's what they want. They wanna see, hey, there's excitement in the community. There's people talking about this. There's buzz going on, you know, with these VIPs.

 

Because, you know, they're a bunch of labor miles, basically. That's just the way people are. When you're going to something, you end up telling somebody I mean, I learned this from Broadway.

 

I lived in theater district, we're gonna lose out if we don't say something about this. So now you've got publicity and awareness. That's helping your outstanding cause, of course. Exactly what -- Oh, yeah.

 

-- you wanna see you wanna see me on television promoting your outstanding cause in your city. So that's that, but it could be radio. It's usually a radio print, any kind of publicity for your outstanding calls. It's branch number 3.

 

Now you're at another level. And it's the same thing as a tree. The tree has reached a level where this branch can grow. Well, this event has reached a level, believe it or not, where we can show it to a large major corporate sponsor.

 

So Ranch number 4 is major corporate sponsors. Ranch number 5 is new and prestigious quarters because we wanna bring in It could be celebrities, it could be the mayor, and it has been all of these people.

 

Like I told you about Las Vegas, turned out some of the new and prestigious supporters were Republicans and Democrats that dislike each other vehemently, but they were at this event and smiling and just loving what it was all about.

 

6 is fundraising techniques.

 

And that's so cool because so often we see a person organization, sometimes they don't know anything about fundraising, and we're sharing knowledge from Unifep that we learned from, you know, the Red Cross event that we did here in New York or the 1 that we did in Auburn, New York or the 2 events for the special Olympics that we did out in boisey and sun valley.

 

You know, we learned from them, and we bumbled along the way all these little things, and we're able to tell you about this and tell you about that.

 

I thought hey. Check out this event in Long Island, where we got the Sopranos to do with the silent auction and they sign these things.

 

Check out this and then we find well, That would work for us. That looks great, but I don't know if we could pull it off at this event.

 

That's when we did it. Now we're learning and those fundraising techniques now you have them under your belt. Uh-huh. You've done it. Branch up the 7 is the conglomerate of all of it.

 

It's our goal to make you a more befriended, a more, you know, sponsored, a more and like the more publicized. The more prestigious organization or upending cause or even if it's an artist, a musical project than you ever were before.

 

And if we do all of that, we feel like we have, at the very least, given you a helpful step forward, and that's what this is all about.

 

Using the art form of jazz to give an outstanding cause a helpful step forward and that actually is redefining peace.

 

And it's achieving our goal to take this great foundation that we have laid by all of these great peacemakers, whether it was Gandhi or whether it was Martin Luther King or whoever it was -- Sure.

 

-- take all of that and take that baton further. I love it. I think it's a killer model. Obviously, it's been proven to work.

 

But, you know, ultimately, at the end of the day, raising awareness for causes and increasing people's ability to communicate civilly for the sake of humanity is obviously ultimately never going to be bad.

 

It's always going to be a good end state So it's ubiquitous and it's worldwide plus it's got utility. And the great thing about it is it all starts with the music.

 

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Thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah. Of course. Of course. I really appreciate this opportunity. And especially, you've given us a little bit of extra time. I'd really love to get you to be able to play a little bit.

 

So if you got a couple minutes to spare. From what we talked about earlier, you had mentioned sort of a improved rendition. I think you said of if I had you and if I'm correct, I'm pretty sure Sonatra did that at 1 point.

 

Right? Yes. You're absolutely correct. Alright. Well, I'm gonna mute my input so that way I don't sing along. This is all for you, but Yeah, please.

 

Go ahead. You got the floor, man. Alright. So this is gonna start out with actually the Palm Jazz for Peace. And I'm just gonna kind of freely improvise the accompaniment to that poem. I'm gonna recite it.

 

Then I'm gonna kinda go into another pre improvisation called 3JA, and that's, again, what we talked about, the importance of freedom of speech and the importance that we do need to have the freedom for reporters to be able to report on any kinds of things such as the bombing civilians and women and children during a war time, etcetera, etcetera.

 

Mhmm. And then that's gonna segue because that's kinda avant garde, and that's gonna be a bit modern.

 

So that's gonna segue into the old time jazz that, you know, your mom and dad love as a synopsis tune called if I had you. Perfect. I hear jazz for peace. Coming through the tree. It's in my heart. It fills me like a celebration.

 

See the lights. I want to follow Spired by the past contributions. Language that is a gift to all mankind. But we speak it. People are in line with my creativity and on the street. The stand, slow, humanity is intelligent.

 

That leads to reaching potential. We have it on hold. Hi there, Chad. Pete. I couldn't climb most snow. Have mountains. If I had you May. That was awesome. Thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah. That was awesome.

 

I didn't even know where to take it from there. I'm still sort of in the zone. Yeah. But I I appreciate you playing it. Hopefully, by your response, the idea is you can see how it can reach anybody. You know what I'm saying?

 

It could reach a person in any corner of you know, I what I want people to understand is that music it can reach anybody. I mean, it's you know, you heard an old song at the end that your grandmother write love, but yet it reached you.

 

You know, you heard an avant garde thing that maybe A hipster would love yet it was able to reach someone who wasn't familiar with it.

 

Do you see what I mean? Yeah. Well, that's the thing. I can't play jazz music. I'm sure I could if I tried but even when I try it doesn't sound like yours.

 

You know what I mean? And even if I could play well, it wouldn't sound like yours. Right. But we both would understand or at the very least I can understand what you're trying to get across.

 

And it's such a crazy, ubiquitous capability and skill set. To communicate with people without words, number 1, Ask any Charlie Chaplin fan, but number 2, to be able to convey through music, the ability to elicit emotions is crazy.

 

I appreciate it. And all things considered hopefully for anybody and everybody who's listening you were able to find value in that as well.

 

In fact, Rick, that brings us to our last segment of the show called developing character. The developing character.

 

Alright. So now that we have a pretty good understanding, of how you're capable of communicating through music. Let's see how well you view yourself being able to communicate through your character and your values. 3 questions.

 

So first question and answer this to whatever depth you feel comfortable. How do you view your values that you had let's go way back. Say as a teenager. Well, as a teenager I mean, I believe we're born with some innate things.

 

There are innate characteristics that we are born with that we just arrived with at birth that are wonderful, probably. But as a teenager, we go through a period where we're being taught things.

 

We're being taught things about values. Maybe we go to church every Sunday, or we have mentors, or we have positive people in our life, hopefully, some good teachers at school.

 

So we're learning them. And I think the difference from there is to actually be able to put them into actuality.

 

So the difference may be from going from the values I learned growing up, where that maybe I was able to do them spontaneously, be a nice guy at the right time trying to others, etcetera.

 

But the whole idea as a grown up for me, at least, is to go from talking the talk, which is a learning process to walking Yeah. And that transition in and of itself can be ridiculously hard in a lifetime process.

 

So it's it's definitely commendable to reach for it. 1 thing I like is if I met a jazz repeat concert, and I get the feeling that everybody there feels like at least at that moment, they're all walking along.

 

Yeah. That's beautiful. Question 2, what about now? What are some of your values that you try to embody?

 

So now what I try to do is I try to have a positive interaction with everyone. Number 1, something that can come from me, whatever my journey has led me to, that can help that person because of this interaction, something.

 

You know? Even in, like, if it's crazy, I could be buying something at a grocery store something I might say just to that person back there, just some little interactive.

 

If I can say something that just might make that person I don't know. Have a better day. Make that meeting. Yeah. Make it positive. The other thing is the humility.

 

The humility for me to be able to make sure I look at every person I'm looking at, and I realize that they have something unique to special that nobody else has and that they have something to teach me -- Mhmm.

 

-- if I am open and receptive to learning it. And I actually originally learned that when I was a kid because I did a thesis on a jazz pianist named Arcatum. Who was so overwhelming that 1 would listen to him and think, oh my god.

 

This man has nothing to learn from anybody when it comes to the piano. And yet, he is quoted as saying I never which blew my mind. He said this. I never came across a piano player that I couldn't learn something from. Oh, wow.

 

But he said that. He never met a piano player that he couldn't learn something from. Especially with that level of clout. Yeah. Well, that's what I realized, if there's nobody he could've learned from, then forget about it for me.

 

I mean, you know, Yeah. It's like, I'm looking at a bunch of teachers probably compared to him. So I realized that I then when you take that into people and you realize how unique they are, you know, when he gets know somebody.

 

Sometimes you can preconceived notions like, oh, that guy seems like a idiot. He seems like a jerk blah blah blah.

 

But then you realize if you look at it from a different focus, you'll see somebody who not only is unique from you and different from you, which should be taking into consideration, but also probably can do things that you could never do.

 

You know? Like, I'm positive when I look at you, I'm I look at somebody who's unique conducive can make a contribution.

 

I could never make it if I tried. Just like you said that about the piano, but I also feel important for me to look at you as in the same way.

 

Whatever you're gonna do, it's gonna be unique and something that probably nobody could do, but for sure I could. Yeah. Well, I appreciate you saying that. But I agree.

 

There's definitely people that, for example, I thought there was something I was good at Once you start meeting other like minded people or other people with similar skill sets, you start to realize you really don't know as much as you might think, and you can learn something from everybody.

 

The more you learn, the more you realize you don't know. I figured you feel stupid at the beginning, but now I feel like I'm on the right track when I feel stupid because I really it's true.

 

The the the problem is it's really true. I just have to come to terms with that. Yeah. Well, and that takes time too. But that brings me to question 3 where we're talking about taking time.

 

Now we're looking to the future. How do you see your values changing over the next 20 years? That's a good question. Here's what I would like. That which is considered such a special thing.

 

Let's say these jazz repeat events, which I feel so blessed to have been a part of, 1 thing I noticed was they always seem to be the exception. And why should these great moments in life be the exception.

 

You know? I mean, like, I told you previously for a long time, people walked around saying it was too good to be true. They don't really say anymore because there's so much video for them to see and so much stuff.

 

But what if we were to make this the norm as a species or this level of activity. For me, I feel like I'm at my highest level when I'm really making a difference for somebody But what if that could be the norm and not the exception?

 

That's what I would like to see happen -- Mhmm. -- if I had 20 more years to do it. To be around to watch.

 

That'd be such a powerful experience. Could you imagine? Yeah. I mean, people are suffering from so many things what if? What if there's a way to turn the tables on it and make these glorious moments the norm and these downers?

 

The exception. Yeah. That would be the right thing to strive for. Well and like you said, it's little pieces along the way that eventually you build out enough roots where it stabilizes itself.

 

You know, it's not impossible. No. I'll say that. It's definitely not impossible. I mean, it's almost ours to screw up because we do have the potential. For sure. Now, Rick, first off, I appreciate your answer in those.

 

But if anybody else wants to get in touch with you, find out more information on jazz for peace or you directly, email, social media, how do people do that? Yeah. So I'd love to give you a really great way to start out.

 

If either it's me or just for peace or if you know of an outstanding cause, if you are with an outstanding cause or project or organization, A great way to start the communication would be, send an email that's info at jasper p dot org.

 

So that's INF0 at jazz, JAZZ4F0R, peace, PEACE, dot 0RG, say a little something.

 

You're already starting to treat growing by doing that. By sending us an email with a comment based on your review of whatever you saw, could have been listened to this podcast right here.

 

You're already a seedling. You've already completed easy letter a. Of the ABC steps. Yeah. Now as we've talked, a seedling can remain a seedling. Most of them do. But it's a real good footing to start out off.

 

Of course, you can always visit our website, jazper peace dot org. You can also visit my personal website rick dollarata dot com. Another cool thing to do is type into Google, Rick Delerata, famous quote.

 

I accidentally And what do I like You do. Okay. I don't have the date, I don't have the time, but what I do have is for whatever reason, you said, when we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry, and intelligence.

 

We have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction. That's what I said. And I said it in a interview, and it just got lifted and went viral and all the famous quotes website.

 

Yeah. Growing branches. That's how it goes. Now do you have social media presence for either you, Jasmine, whatever? I know there's, like, Facebook dot com forward slash jaz for peace grant.

 

Is 1 of them on Facebook. There's Twitter, and I think it's at jazz, MGMT. Instagram, of course, there's jazz for peace on Instagram. LinkedIn, of course, there's both jazz for peace and there's me. You can find me on LinkedIn. Okay.

 

Well, so for all of our listeners, we'll have those websites, we'll have the email address, and we'll have the social media handles listed in the description for this interview as well, plus the posts leading up to this interview airing will have those included as well you'll be able to find all this information that you're hearing.

 

Click the links or if it's just easier, feel free to send an email to survival dad y t at gmail dot com and we can get you in touch with Rick and Jess for peace as well.

 

So -- Perfect. -- saying that Rick, I really appreciate your time, man.

 

Covering jazz for peace, talking about your life, talking about your perspective. Obviously, in our case, ultimately, your values and tying all of this into jazz music, which is such a powerful opportunity.

 

So thank you. Thank you. My pleasure. And, you know, another strand coincidence, the most recent event we did, the organization's name was the values string.

 

Their website, their mission statement, all that kind of stuff, and what they are doing with values to make a difference.

 

I love it, man. Attribution, making contacts, network, and that's the whole point of a tree. And that's how you get for us. Right? Now saying that Thank you to the Savannah Jazz Jazz Festival.

 

Choy music hall, obviously jazz for peace, but also dizzy Gillespie, Arty Shah, Art Tatum, Everyone else who's had a hand in jazz for peace over the years and also influenced Rick throughout his entire jazz career and and evolution as a performer for your inspiration to this conversation.

 

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