"It's kind of a subtle shift in perspectives,"
That actually opens up things for us
he comments, "but there was a long time
when we were thinking, 'We really need
the bass part and we need the horn part.'
Now, it's more like, 'The bass part and the
horn part are colors we could use, but the
music doesn't really require that. It doesn't
require anything in particular."'
A combination of Andress' prodigious
technical prowess on the guitar and the
duet milieu he and his wife, Patty Cathcart,
chose to work in offers Tuck and Patti this
latitude. They manage to capture just the
right blend of intimacy and expansiveness.
This carries over to how thev oerform and
what thev perform.
"We're lircky we chose to focus on one
voice and one guitar, without any variation
in the processing," he says. "It always
sounds like the same voice and the same
guitar.
to do any style of music you want to hear,
any kind of music we want to play, and
having it all come out sounding like Tuck
and Patti. So, unless you necessarilyknew
it was a jimi Hendrix song, or you knew
what musical tradition a given song came
out of, you'd be just as likely to think that
it's just music. That really turned out to be a
great advantage. Everything comes out
sounding like Tuck and Patti.
"OIten, at a jazz concert, we'1l put a Jimi
Hendrix song right after a classicTad Da-
meron song or Clifford Brown song, and
we'll get these jazz aficionados coming up
later saying, 'That was a very interesting
song. Who wrote it? I really liked it.' I say,
Jimi Hendrix,' and their response will be
anything from, 'Jimi Hendrix? Really?'to
'Oh, jimi Hendrix. I'll have to investigate '
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In many ways, Andress uses the gui-
tar as a personal discipline. His most
ent types. You find a rock'n' roll purist recent solo project points this up. On
leRoland' or a pop purist who is completely unin- the surface of it, Andress has made an
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Fos[o( solo and a sing-along guitar solo as part ing standards.It's wide open. You can
alr"*t^./eb@*frL F** I of our set, and they'll say, 'Hmm, that's do anything you want to on the song.
cool. That must be jazz.I'm going to go Everyone knows the song, so they're
and find out more.'People who've nev- ready to hear whatever direction you
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down on the instrument. Initially I was with any previous chord. They're all
just thinking of it as a mixing tool, but really pleasant to listen to, as opposed
as soon as you've got a foot sitting on a to really dissonant, and in general I
pedal, it's going to start to do all these avoid any kind of referenceto the origi-
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found that I am unconsciously moving make a really intentional reference. A
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