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, Tom Jones, and The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. He played lead trumpet with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra (ASO) for Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, and Buddy Rich. He's performed with jazz artists Pharoah Sanders, Gregory Tardy, Frank Sinatra, Alvin Batiste, Airto Moriera, Carl Fontana, Victor Wooten, Jack DeJohnette, Jerry Coker, Gary Foster, Jim Self, Donald Brown, Stan Samole, Art Porter, Stefano Sabatini, Charles Thomas, Bill Scarlett, Ted Ludwig, Gene Rush, Mark Boling, Jon Hamar, Wally Brath, Maasej, Abel, and Josua Kovacevic, Mike Choby, Rocky Wynder, Buck Powell, and Brandon Dorris. 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. In the 1980s, Tom founded & directed The Little Rock Jazz Machine, a “big band”  primarily comprised of orchestra musicians, band directors, students, and faculty. They played regularly in a night club, for fund-raisers, and concerts, and recorded a two vinyl albums, including Live at the Afterthought (1987). Tom's a former member of the Arkansas and Knoxville Symphony Orchestras, and taught jazz studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for 41 years. Tom's most recent albums are Jazz Tracks (2014) and Gift of Wind (2020).

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