vibraphone

When Puts reaches for percussion instruments, he chooses the sweeter ones — glockenspiel, crotales, chimes, vibraphone — and combines them luxuriously.

It was probably the drone on the vibraphone and the birdlike chirping on flutes that induced me into a trance.

“Gravity” is the album’s only track without a piano, slimming down this band of young aces to just bass, drums, guitar and vibraphone.

“Harvey is one of the best salesmen I ever knew,” said Andy Harlow, who was a “band boy” for Averne’s teen group, carrying Harvey’s vibraphones and other gear to gigs and practice.

His lean, linear, freely melodic vibraphone playing repeatedly made him the top vibraphonist in the Down Beat magazine musicians’ poll.