Jason Crosby

Jason Crosby plays piano, organ and violin, and has spent most of his career as the musician other bands send for — Jackson Browne, Susan Tedeschi, Carlos Santana, Robert Randolph, The Mother Hips. He came into the Dead's orbit through Bob Weir's TRI studio, sat in with Phil Lesh, and became a fixture at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, playing through years of Phil Lesh & Friends and Terrapin Family Band nights. His own records are Cryptologic and the solo piano album Gilder, and he leads the Crosby Collective. He lives in Sonoma County and plays the Bay Area constantly, Dead nights among a calendar of Assembly of Dust, Donna the Buffalo and his own bands.