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Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame
1998 Candidates
Tom Richeson
An outstanding trumpeter/multi-instrumentalist and educator that was born in Washington, D.C. in 1951. Tom has toured with Pharoah Sanders, Donald Brown, Jerry Coker, Frank Sinatra, Lou Rawls, the Jackson Five, Diana Ross, Charlie Spivak, and the Tommy Dorsey Orhestra. Since coming to Arkansas as Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, he has organized and directed the Little Rock Jazz Machine, which has played at the last three Governor's Balls. He has produced five albums featuring the Little Rock Jazz Machine, Gene Rush, Art Porter, Sr., Charles Thomas, Bill Scarlett, and himself. Tom is a former National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Fellow. Richeson was the Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation Jazz Person of the Year in 1993.
Currently Tom serves as Coordinator of Jazz Studies at UALR and is in wide demand as a performer, band leader, and clinician/lecturer. He has toured Europe twice with "Proclaim" of the Greater Europe Mission, and continues to be involved with the music ministry of Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock.
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