Scenes in the City is the debut album by American saxophonist Branford Marsalis, released in 1984.

The title track was composed twenty years earlier by Charles Mingus.

[4] The album features much of the same lineup as his brother Wynton Marsalis's albums of that time period, including Black Codes (From the Underground), recorded the next year.

[5] Scenes in the City was given four out of four stars and included in the Penguin Jazz Guide's list of 1000 Best Jazz albums, the only Branford Marsalis album of the list.

[7] Scott Yanow of AllMusic called it "ambitious yet consistently successful" and "an impressive start to a notable career.