Trumpeter Tom Richeson has toured with pop stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson (with The Jacksons), Diana Ross (featuring Weather Report and Koinonia drummer Alex Acuna and Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald trumpeter Don Rader), The Temptations, The O'Jays, Lou Rawls (with trombonist Andy Martin in horn section), the Spinners (led by Motown Records Music Director Maurice King), toured with the Charlie Spivak Orchestra (as Charlie's lead trumpeter) and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (led by trombonist Buddy Morrow), performed with jazz artists Pharoah Sanders, Gregory Tardy, Mark Boling, Jon Hamar, Charles Thomas, Art Porter, Sr., Bill Scarlett, Gene Rush, Maasej, Abel, and Josua Kovacevic, Wally Brath, Donald Brown, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Coker, Keith Brown, and, with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, with Nancy Wilson, Buddy Rich, and Ella Fitzgerald. He’s toured 20-plus countries with International Cultural Exchange, an organization that promotes cross cultural exchanges in the arts and education for the purposes of enlightenment, understanding and compassion. The ICX Jazz Ensemble headlined the Cairo International Jazz Festival (2019). Tom was inducted into the Arkansas Hall of Fame in 2014, is a former member of the Arkansas and Knoxville Symphony Orchestras and taught music history and jazz studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for four decades. He has a few albums, including Gift of Wind (2020). “…whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God” (1 Cor. 10:31).