Lesh credited Garcia with teaching him to play the bass in the unorthodox lead-guitar style ... composers like Bach and ...
His thundering bass lines provided brilliant counterpoint to lead guitarist Jerry Garcia's soaring solos, anchored band's famous marathon jams ...
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, died Friday at age 84.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar ... from classical music to cool jazz by ...
LOS ANGELES — Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar ... gravitated from classical music to cool ...
Lesh composed the latter on guitar as a gift for his dying father, and he recalled that Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, ...
Los Angeles — Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar ... gravitated from classical music to cool ...
Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar ... Bach and Edgard Varèse, as well as jazz greats like John Coltrane ...
Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a ... had gravitated from classical music to cool jazz by ...