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.

The riches haven’t materialized yet, DeBardi stressed, as he listed the instruments — everything from a vibraphone to timpanis to guitars — he bought on the cheap when he had “like, $300 to my name.”

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

Though he didn’t make a record, himself, until he was 30, Averne also left a mark as a recording artist and accordion/vibraphone player.