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Yusef Lateef's Detroit

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Yusef Lateef's Detroit Latitude 42° 30′ Longitude 83°
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 1969
RecordedFebruary 4–5, 1969
StudioCentury Sound Studios, New York City
GenreJazz
Length31:02
LabelAtlantic
SD 1525
ProducerJoel Dorn
Yusef Lateef chronology
The Blue Yusef Lateef
(1968)
Yusef Lateef's Detroit Latitude 42° 30′ Longitude 83°
(1969)
The Diverse Yusef Lateef
(1969)

Yusef Lateef's Detroit (subtitled Latitude 42° 30′ Longitude 83°) is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1969 (with one track from The Complete Yusef Lateef recording sessions in 1967) and released on the Atlantic label.[1]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

Allmusic reviewer Thom Jurek described it as "one of Lateef's most misunderstood recordings".[2]

Track listing

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All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as indicated

  1. "Bishop School" – 3:00
  2. "Livingston Playground" – 3:37
  3. "Eastern Market" – 4:15
  4. "Belle Isle" – 3:12
  5. "Russell and Elliot" – 4:47
  6. "Raymond Winchester" – 2:35
  7. "Woodward Avenue" – 2:11
  8. "That Lucky Old Sun" (Haven Gillespie, Beasley Smith) – 7:25
  • Recorded at Century Sound Studios in New York City on February 4, 1969 (tracks 1, 4, 5 & 7) and February 5, 1969 (tracks 2, 3, & 6) and on June 1, 1967 in New York City (track 8)

Record Store Day re-release

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The album was re-released in the UK for Record Store Day on 22 April 2023 as a limited edition of 2,000 copies. It was selected by Giles Peterson from the Warner archive for re-release on his Arc Records label, it was re-mastered in mono from the original tapes by Bernie Grundman and pressed on 180-gram black vinyl. This is the only re-issue the album has had on vinyl since its original release in 1969.[4]

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Yusef Lateef discography accessed July 20, 2012
  2. ^ a b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review, accessed July 19, 2012
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 868. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ "Yusef Lateef's Detroit Latitude 42° 30' Longitude 83°". Record Store Day. Retrieved 2023-04-24.