''Private City'' is a solo album by English

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John Surman John Douglas Surman (born 30 August 1944) is an English jazz saxophone, bass clarinet, and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music. He has composed and performed music for dance performanc ...

, recorded in December 1987 and released on

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the following year.

Reception

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awarded the album four stars, with reviewer Michael G. Nastos stating: "This album, a fully realized project, has Surman exploiting all of the timbres and tones available to him in a manner he could not accomplish with other musicians in real time. It's a full exploration of his soul, from land, sea, and outer atmospheric galaxies, on wings of supersonic fancy and fantasy." accessed 8 June 2010

Track listing

All compositions by John Surman. #"Portrait of a Romantic" – 7:03 #"On Hubbard's Hill" – 4:33 #"Not Love Perhaps" – 5:20 #"Levitation" – 4:06 #"Undernote" – 2:44 #"The Wanderer" – 5:46 #"Roundelay" – 5:15 #"The Wizard's Song" – 8:51

Personnel

– baritone and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet, recorder, piano, synthesizer

References

{{Authority control 1987 albums ECM Records albums John Surman albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher