As regular viewers of our channel will probably be aware, when I’m not in the office preparing content for the Gentleman’s Gazette, in my free time, I also work as a jazz vocalist around Minnesota. Today, I’m going to give you a behind-the-scenes look at how I prepared for a recent concert by giving you a step-by-step overview of how I put together my black tie ensemble. At the time of recording this video, I’m still, what you would probably call, an emerging artist, in that I’m still making connections and getting my name out there but recently, I did take what you would probably consider to be a fairly major step and organized my own concert completely from scratch. My collaborator Maestro Andrew Casey and I put together an ensemble of twenty-four professional musicians to play an hour-long concert of songs from the Great American Songbook or Jazz Standards from the early to mid 20th century. Preston’s Jazz Concert with Maestro Andrew Casey at the piano As you can pro...