The Grateful Dead hit the top 10 on three Billboard charts this week with Dave’s Picks, Volume 52, which marks their seventh such win in 2024 alone.

“Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of The Grateful Dead, passed peacefully this morning. He was surrounded by his family ...

With over a half-century retrospect, it’s altogether mind-boggling that Live/Dead is the first of what would subsequently ...

Lesh also developed an early interest in avant-garde music and free jazz, both of which later influenced his unique bass ...

Phil Lesh, the prolific bass player and co-founder of the legendary rock band the Grateful ... and free jazz sounds that would later characterize his unique bass style with the Dead.

Phil Lesh, founding member and longtime bassist for legendary rock outfit the Grateful Dead ... garde classical and free jazz. After short-lived studies at a variety of music schools, he met ...

Lesh also developed an early interest in avant-garde music and free jazz, both of which later influenced his unique bass playing in the Grateful Dead. While in college at the University of ...

Lesh’s death comes two days after MusiCares named the Grateful Dead its Persons of the Year. MusiCares, which helps music professionals ... next day with a lyric sheet. On that sheet, he said ...

In constructing his bass parts, he drew from many sources, including free jazz, classical music and the avant-garde. Image The Grateful Dead in performance in San Francisco in 1970. From left ...