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 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, Charles Thomas, Bill Scarlett, Ted Ludwig, Gene Rush, Mark Boling, Jon Hamar, Wally Brath, Maasej & Abel Kovacevic, Mike Choby, 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. Tom founded and directed The Little Rock Jazz Machine, a jazz big band comprised of band directors, orchestra personnel, students, and others. They played a regular gig in a local night club, recording Live at the Afterthought in 1987. He'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. His most recent album is Gift of Wind (2020).

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