Rod Dibble, the hands at the keys of one of the last piano bars in Oakland, has died, ending a half-century run at the Alley, a dimly lit dive on Grand Avenue. “I’ll never retire,” Dibble told The ...

They sit at the bar and put bread in his jar, but regulars at the Alley know better than to ask Rod Dibble to play "Piano Man." And the newcomers quickly learn. Dibble has played at this Oakland bar ...