Welcome back to the Gentleman's Gazette! For those of our viewers who have wanted
to hear me sing some jazz, today is your lucky day. Today's video ties into our
10-year anniversary celebration of the Gentleman's Gazette! You can find the
previous video we filmed where we answered your frequently asked questions
here and stay tuned for another video where we review our first videos that we
filmed for the channel. As some of our longtime viewers may know, especially if
you've watched my FAQ video which you can find here, I am, outside of working at
the Gentleman's Gazette, also a jazz vocalist. I work mainly within the realm
of early twentieth-century jazz in what is often called the Great American
Songbook or Standards, for short. Some of my personal singing idols include Bing
Crosby and Frank Sinatra and I try to work with sound scapes similar to theirs
as often as I can. Obviously, I'm still an emerging vocalist
and am just getting my feet wet in the professional scene but with that said, I
did have an opportunity this past August of 2019 to do something which I thought
was very fun, working with a collaborator and friend of mine Maestro Andrew Casey.
He and I were able to put together a concert of these Great American Songbook
tunes for a grateful audience. With all that said then, I hope you enjoy this
brief look at my recent concert.
So there you have it, hopefully my song stylings were to your liking. My thanks again to Maestro Casey
for collaborating with me on this concert, to the Hopkins Center for the
Arts for hosting us, and for you, the Gentleman's Gazette viewers for being
inquisitive and curious about wanting to see some of this footage. As we mentioned
in our FAQ video, rights management for standards on YouTube can be tricky. As
such, if you'd like to see more than the one song we've featured here, you can
visit my personal website at prestonsings.com, link is also in the
description