Education
He studied at the University of Illinois in the early 1960s.
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Kim Richmond
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Richmond played piano, clarinet, and saxophone when young, and made his professional debut in 1956. He played in the Air Force big band, Airmen of Note, while serving from 1963-1967 in Washington District of Columbia He then moved to California and played with Stan Kenton (1967), Clare Fischer (1968), Louie Bellson (1969-1972), Lalo Schifrin (1979), Bob Florence (1979), Les Brown (1989), Bill Holman (1990), Vinny Golia (1991), Johnny Mandel, Chris Walden and Clay Jenkins among many others
(1990s). Richmond also arranged professionally from the 1960s, for Schifrin, Buddy Rich, and Ernie Watts among others
He founded the Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra in southern California to perform his own works. Additionally, he has worked extensively as a session musician, arranger, director, and conductor for studios and popular musicians.
