Imaginary Cities is to be Chris Potter’s latest album released in the US on 13 January and the UK/Ireland the following week.

It finds the Chicago tenor saxophone player deep in Underground Orchestra mode.

This new ECM album was recorded a year ago in New York studio Avatar, the centrepiece of the music a four-movement ‘Imaginary Cities’ suite.

Potter’s last album was 2013’s The Sirens.

Chris Potter above centre with members of the orchestra and producer Manfred Eicher second from the right.

photo Bart Babinski / ECM