By the time he left high school Dale "Harry" Convey was a leading jazz pianist in Cedar Rapids.  Following a stint in the U.S. Army, Convey returned to Iowa to attend the University of Iowa where he landed a job with Larry Barrett, Iowa City's major jazz banc leader at that time.  Upon hearing Convey in Cedar Rapids, Des Moines bandleader Don How asked him to move to Des Moines in 1960.  After several years of gigging in Des Moines, Convey took a job as a reporter for the Palm Beach Times in Florida.  It wasn't long before he was playing jazz with the best players in the Palm Beach area. 

     Returning to Des Moines to care for his mother, convey was one of the area's busiest pianists, with steady gigs at the Embassy Club, Glen Oak Country Club and Younkers Tea Room.  Most recently, jazz lovers of Des Moines can "fall under the spell" of Convey's unique style of playing ballads at Lucca's in the East Village.