Andy Pratt is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter & jazz artist. He can be found playing guitar & singing most nights throughout the city & Midwest region. Pratt is often a featured guest with the Joe Policastro Trio & appears on the group’s 2016 sophomore release, “Pops.” He has also recorded with singer-songwriter Adam James Sorensen & appears on his debut “Midwest” album.

As a vocalist, guitarist, songwriter & photographer, Pratt loves the fuzz, blur, grain, & beautiful imperfections of live music and art. With an affinity for analog recording, vintage instruments, film cameras, string quartets, & brooding melodies, his music lives within a modern impressionist world of his own creation.

Pratt sings with a dry vocal and a touch of vibrato unaltered by any synthetic effects. He saves most of the reverb for his guitar. He is a storyteller who sings to clearly evoke a mood, space or time. He brings his listeners into the world he’s created.

Listen to his new album HERE and see Andy in action HERE

The winter of 2017 finds Pratt preparing for the spring release of his debut record, “Horizon Disrupted.” After handing his band members a few solo demos that he recorded on a 4-track Tascam cassette recorder, he knew that he’d want the same tape/analog sound on the final product. Pratt naturally sought out Steve Albini at Electrical Audio Studios in Chicago and asked him to track and mix the album. “Horizon Disrupted” is a collection of eight haunting songs written over the past five years. The topics dig deep into love, sex, relationships, & an overall sense of longing for what could lie ahead. The album features a vocals/guitar, bass, & drums trio, augmented by a string quartet on six of the eight selections. With the music, lyrics, arrangements & artwork for the album all created by Pratt, there is a cohesive thread that ties these elements together, proving they are one & the same.

With his “reverberating (guitar) tone,” “Pratt…tastefully reconstructs (the music) with his deeply emotive monologue.” [Chicagojazz.com]