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Yellow Fields
Yellow Fields is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1975 and released on the ECM label.
Reception.
The Allmusic review awarded the album four out of five stars. "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,
The Swedish famine of 1867-1869 begins.
- Yellow fever kills 3,093 in New Orleans.
- The Wasps Rugby Football Club is formed in Middlesex, England.
Events Ongoing.
- Paraguayan War.
- 1867–1873 – Chinese, Scandinavian and Irish immigrants lay of railroad tracks in the USA.
Births.
Births January–March.
- January 1 – Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (d. 1941)
- January 5 – Dimitrios Gounaris, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1922)