Yellow Fields

Yellow Fields
Studio album by
Eberhard Weber
Released1976 (1976)
RecordedSeptember 1975 (1975-09)
StudioTonstudio Bauer
Ludwigsburg, W. Germany
GenreJazz
Length44:19
LabelECM 1066 ST
ProducerManfred Eicher
Eberhard Weber chronology
Ring (Gary Burton album)
(1974) 		Yellow Fields
(1976) 		The Following Morning
(1976)

Yellow Fields is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in September 1975 and released on ECM the following year. The quartet features saxophonist Charlie Mariano, pianist Rainer Brüninghaus and drummer Jon Christensen.[1]

Reception

The AllMusic review awarded the album four out of five stars.[2]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded it the maximum four stars and placed it in their Core Collection, writing "Weber's masterpiece is essentially a period piece which nevertheless still seems modern. The sound of it is almost absurdly opulent: bass passages and swimming keyboard textures that reverberate from the speakers, chords that seem to hum with huge overtones. The keyboard textures in particular are of a kind that will probably never be heard on record again."[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Eberhard Weber

Side I
No.TitleLength
1."Touch"5:02
2."Sand-Glass"15:34
Total length:20:36
Side II
No.TitleLength
1."Yellow Fields"10:06
2."Left Lane"13:37
Total length:23:43 44:19

Personnel

Technical personnel

  • Manfred Eicher – producer
  • Martin Wieland – engineer
  • Maja Weber – cover
  • Dieter Bonhorst – layout
  • Gabi Winter – photography

References

  1. ^ ECM discography accessed September 6, 2011
  2. ^ a b Allmusic Review accessed September 6, 2011
  3. ^ a b Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 7th ed. (Penguin, 2004: ISBN 978-0-14-101416-6).
  4. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 205. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.