Trumpeter Tom Richeson toured with pop stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson (with The Jacksons), Diana Ross (tour musicians included Alex Acuna, Weather Report and Koinonia drummer, and Don Rader, Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald trumpeter), 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). He also performed with jazz artists Pharoah Sanders, Gregory Tardy, Jerry Coker, Mark Boling, Jon Hamar, Alvin Batiste, Airto Moriera, Carl Fontana, Victor Wooten, Jack DeJohnette, Maria Schneider, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jack Coker, Donald Brown, Art Porter, Sr., and Jr., Charles Thomas, Bill Scarlett, Ted Ludwig, Willie Humphrey, Wally Brath, Gene Rush, Maasej, Abel, and Josua Kovacevic, Mike Choby, Stefano Sabatini, Keith Brown, Rusty Holloway, Rocky Wynder, and others. He played lead trumpet with Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, and Buddy Rich (with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra). 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 2019 Cairo International Jazz Festival. 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). Tom teaches trumpet lessons at a few Little Rock area high schools.

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