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, Maria Schneider, Jack Coker, Donald Brown, Charlie Spivak, Stan Samole, Art Porter, Stefano Sabatini, Charles Thomas, Bill Scarlett, Jim Self, 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 extensively world-wide with International Cultural Exchange (ICX), an organization that promotes cross cultural exchanges in the arts and education for the purposes of enlightenment, understanding & compassion. The ICX Jazz Ensemble was featured on the 2021 Cairo International Jazz Festival. In the 1980s, Tom founded and directed The Little Rock Jazz Machine, a “big band” comprised of orchestra musicians, band directors, students, and faculty. They played regularly in a night club, for fund-raisers, and concerts, and recorded two albums, including Live at the Afterthought (1987). A former member of the Arkansas and Knoxville Symphony Orchestras, he also taught jazz studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for 41 years, and has played flutes and MIDI wind controllers. His most recent album is Gift of Wind (2020).

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