Preston Schlueter Sings! Jazz Concert Showcase (10-Year Anniversary)

For those of our readers 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.

As some of our longtime readers may know, especially if you’ve watched my FAQ video: outside of working at the Gentleman’s Gazette, I’m also a jazz vocalist. I work mainly within the realm of early 20th-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 soundscapes similar to theirs as often as I can.

Bing Crosby, Preston’s favorite vocalist

A Summary of Preston’s Concert

I’m still an emerging vocalist who’s just getting my feet wet in the professional scene. With that said, I did have an opportunity (in 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. 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.

Maestro Andrew Casey

Conclusion

Hopefully, my song stylings are to your liking! My thanks to Maestro Casey for collaborating with me on this concert, to the Hopkins Center for the Arts for hosting us, and to the Gentleman’s Gazette readers for being inquisitive and curious about wanting to see some of this footage.

Preston, concert-ready in a vintage tuxedo and bow tie, with a Fort Belvedere carnation boutonniere

Let us know what you thought of Preston’s performance in the comments!