Derwyn Holder's Astral Visions - Time Open

2500 odd years ago Plato and Aristotle initially purported that the purpose of Art was to give pleasure. They went on to discuss the means to achieve this, thus beginning a controversy that has raged ever since. The arguments and the Art have become enormously complex over the centuries and the pleasure has become predictably diluted. Derwyn Holder the talented composer-musician and creator of Aastral Visions has succeeded in creating a musical ambience which delivers that quintessential ingredient sought out by the ancient Greek sages, pleasure. Indeed it is a pleasure achieve in a manner akin to that of the classical philosophers themselves-- simplicity...

Born in Canada and brought up in New England, DH brings to this album a panorama of talent. He attended Tufts Univ. and received his Masters in composition from American U. He studied sax and began playing professionally at sixteen. Later he taught music and directed school bands, choirs, orchestras. Switching his focus he began to play the bass and studied with H Stevens Brewster of the national symphony,. In the past 10 years he has performed in clubs located in the Wash. D.C. area and has appeqared with such "heavyweights" as Billy Eckstein, Johnny Hartman, Gloria Lynn, James Moody, Zoot Sims, Sonny Stitt, and Charlie Ventura.
-Dr. Nick Catalano, New York City, May, 1977

Derwyn Holder: bass
Ken Navarro: guitar
Bob Hallahan: keyboards
Mike Smith: drums
Jo Ann Stephano Young: vocals

Produced by Tony Monte, Derwyn Holder, Janeen Dorsch, and Doug Dickey
Engineered by Doug Dickey