Brettell

Esperanza Spalding is a four-time Grammy winner, a performer so versatile and accomplished that National Public Radio once dubbed her "the jazz genius of the 21st century."And now a new award: She is the winner of the Richard Brettell Award…

Esperanza Spalding (Photo credit: Carmen Daneshmandi) Four-time Grammy winner and jazz bassist, singer, songwriter and composer Esperanza Spalding has been selected to receive the Richard Brettell Award in the Arts in 2021 at the…

The late Rick Brettell, who served as art critic for the Dallas Morning News from 2013 to 2018, left a legacy at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he taught for 22 years. And made a name for himself as a rainmaker.Brettell served…