Phil Lesh grew up listening to classical and jazz music. Then he reimagined the electric bass and changed rock history. The ...

Fred Ellwein spent a lifetime in music, including as Army band commander and Rapid City teacher. Now he's a hall of famer.

It’s fair to say that among fusion aficionados, John McLaughlin is the father of jazz-rock guitar. His experiments with complex harmony, Eastern scales, and chromaticism in conjunction with the rigs ...

Daylight may end earlier in November and a winter chill may be in the air, but this series of shows throughout the month ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, whose dense, inventive playing powered the Grateful Dead and, following the 1995 death of guitarist Jerry ...

But he had largely put both instruments aside and was driving a mail truck and working as a sound engineer for a small radio ...

One of the first rock bassists whose instrument regularly took a lead role, he also had a hand in writing some of the band’s best-known songs.

The best music often comes from the best friendships. On Saturday night, October 19, 2024, at a VivaMix event held at ...

When most people think of typical rock instruments, clarinet, saxophone and mandolin are rarely the first ones to come to mind. But that doesn’t mean that they don’t have a role to play. Among ...

An official statement posted to Lesh's Facebook account Friday said Lesh "passed peacefully" and was "surrounded by his ...

Long before he sold millions of records and toured the globe with Coheed and Cambria, Travis Stever was just a kid who loved music.

Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of countercultural rock band The Grateful Dead, has died. He was 84 years old. His family posted the news on Lesh’s official Instagram page.