For those unaware, Andy Pratt is a Chicago based jazz guitarist, vocalist, and composer who has been active in and around the city for more than 20 years.

Indeed, Pratt has shared the stage with the likes of Andy Brown, Petra Van Nuis, Joe Policastro, Mikel Patrick Avery, Dennis Carroll, Don Stiernberg, Victor Garcia, Elaine Dame, Phil Gratteau, Kyle Asche, & Pete Benson, to name a few.

Whether Pratt is playing solo guitar, accompanying a vocalist, leading a trio, or working as a sideman, he always strives to bring ample amounts of respect and fun to the music.

Pratt’s music has been featured in local and national publications such as Magnet, Goldmine, Newcity, The Vinyl District, A Chicago Thing with Billy Dec, Radio One Chicago, Revolution 360, & Medium Daily Digest. He has also been a guest on Cincinnati’s NPR affiliate WVXU in interview with Around Cincinnati’s Ron Esposito.

He has performed on WGN Radio’s Pretty Late with Patti Vasquez and is also a regular on Mike Rice’s Chicago Lives at Que4 Radio. Pratt’s composition “Happiness Is Home” was a semi-finalist in the 2016 International Songwriting Competition.

Aside from being found playing guitar and singing most nights throughout the city and Midwest region, Pratt has just released his third full length album featuring a guitar/vocals, bass, and drums trio, aptly-entitled Trio, which features a selection of mostly jazz standards.

1. Soon
2. Little White Lies
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. Patricia
5. We Three (My Echo, My Shadow & Me)
6. From This Moment On
7. Love Theme from Chinatown (Main Title)
8. (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me
9. Something Big

This wonderfully soothing new recording opens on the delightfully smooth Soon and the upbeat twinkling melodies within Little White Lies and then we get the veritably shimmering ballad When Joanna Loved Me, and the gentle hipsway found within the almost Latin/Caribbean-hued Patricia.

Along next is the low slung, jazzy-blues ballad We Three (My Echo, My Shadow & Me) and the upbeat, playful From This Moment On and they are in turn followed seamlessly by the languishing Love Theme from Chinatown (Main Title), the album rounding out on a dutiful rendition of the excellent Burt Bacharach and Hal David track (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me, closing on the perky Something Big.

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The Making of Andy Pratt’s TRIO (album out on January 12th, 2024)