Michael Davison is a distinguished trumpeter and professor of music at the University of Richmond, where he is director of the jazz program and teaches trumpet and Cuban music. He has performed alongside some of Motown's most iconic singers and groups, including Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations and The Four Tops, and, along with producer Ed Tillett, completed "Cuba: Rhythm in Motion," a documentary tracing the musical genealogy between Cuban rhythms and American jazz.