The surviving members of the Grateful Dead, as well as other musicians and fans, are paying tribute to Phil Lesh, one of the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the Grateful Dead ...

Lesh began his long musical odyssey as a classically trained violinist, starting with lessons in third grade. He took up the trumpet at 14, eventually earning the second chair in ...

Also, Dead & Company took time on Nights 1 and 2 to tip its collective cap to Phil Lesh — the legendary bassist for the Grateful Dead who died in October at the age of 84 — and the tribute ...