For most of his life, Mike Holstein has been the man at the bottom of the band, the bassist other players reach for when a song needs a floor to stand on, a founding force behind the composer collectives that gave Asheville's original-music scene its spine. Tonight he sets the bass down. He leads instead from the vibraphone and guitar, the instruments he first picked up as a child long before the bass ever found him.

Building a band around the vibraphone is a revealing choice. The instrument is metal and air and motor, a set of bars that ring and keep ringing, each note blooming and decaying on its own slow clock, leaving the harmony suspended and half-dissolved so the silence between phrases carries its own weight. With the low end now in Danny Iannucci's hands and Joe Enright's brushes moving through the room like weather, Holstein is free to float above the music rather than hold it up from underneath.

Featuring: Mike Holstein - Vibes, Guitar, Bass, Danny Iannucci - Bass, Joe Enright - Drums