Trumpeter Tom Richeson toured with pop stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson (with The Jacksons), Diana Ross, The Temptations, The O'Jays, Lou Rawls, the Spinners, and others. He played with swing singers like Frank Sinatra and played lead trumpet with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra for Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, and Buddy Rich. Tom has performed with jazz artists Pharoah Sanders, Gregory Tardy, Jerry Coker, Mark Boling, Alvin Batiste, Airto Moriera, Carl Fontana, Victor Wooten, Jack DeJohnette, Maria Schneider, Donald Brown, Art Porter, Charles Thomas, Bill Scarlett, Ted Ludwig, Gene Rush, Maasej Kovacevic, Abel Kovacevic, Jon Hamar, Wally Brath, Keith Brown, and a host of others. He’s toured 20+ countries with International Cultural Exchange (ICX), an organization that promotes cross cultural exchanges in the arts and education for the purposes of enlightenment, understanding and compassion. The ICX Jazz Ensemble was featured on the 2021 Cairo International Jazz Festival. Tom was inducted into the Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame (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 41 years. Albums include Gift of Wind (2020).

“…whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31).