Private City is a solo album by English saxophonist John Surman

John Surman

John Douglas Surman is an English jazz saxophone, bass clarinet and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music as a basis...

, released on the ECM label in 1987.

The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awards the album 4 stars and states "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."

Track listing

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

All compositions by John Surman

Personnel

• John Surman
  John Surman
  John Douglas Surman is an English jazz saxophone, bass clarinet and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music as a basis...
  
  – baritone and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet, recorder, piano, synthesizer