LOS ANGELES -- Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role ...

Los Angeles — Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role ...

Lesh was the oldest and one of the longest surviving members of the band that came to define the acid rock sound emanating ...

Soon after he took up the bass, The Warlocks renamed themselves the Grateful Dead and Lesh began captivating audiences with ...

Armed with a cheap four-string instrument his girlfriend bought him, Lesh sat down for a seven-hour lesson with Garcia, ...

Lesh took violin lessons in third grade, then learned the trumpet, becoming second chair in the Oakland Symphony while still in his teens. But he was driving a mail truck and working as a sound ...