Yusef Lateef's Detroit

Yusef Lateef's Detroit Latitude 42° 30′ Longitude 83°
Yusef Lateef's Detroit Latitude 42° 30′ Longitude 83°
Studio album by Yusef Lateef
Released	June 1969
Recorded	February 4–5, 1969; Century Sound Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	31:02
Label	Atlantic; SD 1525
Producer	Joel Dorn
Yusef Lateef chronology

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[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
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[]

All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as indicated

"Bishop School" - 3:00
"Livingston Playground" - 3:37
"Eastern Market" - 4:15
"Belle Isle" - 3:12
"Russell and Elliot" - 4:47
"Raymond Winchester" - 2:35
"Woodward Avenue"- 2:11
"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)

Personnel[]

Yusef Lateef - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute, oboe, vocals
Thad Jones (tracks 1, 4, 5 & 7), Danny Moore (tracks 2, 3, & 6), Jimmy Owens (tracks 1-7), Snooky Young (tracks 1-7) - trumpet
Eric Gale - guitar (tracks 1-7)
Hugh Lawson - piano
Cecil McBee - bass
Chuck Rainey - electric bass (tracks 1-7)
Bernard Purdie (tracks 1-7) - drums, Roy Brooks (track 8),
Ray Barretto (tracks 1, 4, 5 & 7), Norman Pride (tracks 2, 3, & 6) - congas
Albert Heath - percussion (tracks 1-7)
Selwart Clarke, James Tryon - violin (tracks 1, 3, 4 & 6)
Alfred Brown - viola (tracks 1, 3, 4 & 6)
Kermit Moore - cello (tracks 1, 3, 4 & 6)

References[]

^ Yusef Lateef discography accessed July 20, 2012
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review, accessed July 19, 2012
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 868. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[1] Yusef Lateef discography accessed July 20, 2012

[Allmusic-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review, accessed July 19, 2012

[Penguin-3] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 868. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader	Jazz for the Thinker (1957) Jazz Mood (1957) Before Dawn (1957) Jazz and the Sounds of Nature (1957) Prayer to the East (1957) The Sounds of Yusef (1957) Other Sounds (1957) Lateef at Cranbrook (1958) The Dreamer (1959) The Fabric of Jazz (1959) Cry! – Tender (1959) Louis Hayes with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef\|Contemplation (1960) The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef (1960) The Centaur and the Phoenix (1960) Lost in Sound (1961) Eastern Sounds (1961) Into Something (1961) Jazz 'Round the World (1963) Live at Pep's (1964) 1984 (1965) Psychicemotus (1965) A Flat, G Flat and C (1966) The Golden Flute (1966) The Complete Yusef Lateef (1967) The Blue Yusef Lateef (1968) Yusef Lateef's Detroit (1969) The Diverse Yusef Lateef (1969) Suite 16 (1970) The Gentle Giant (1971) Hush 'N' Thunder (1972) Part of the Search (1973) 10 Years Hence (1974) The Doctor Is In... and Out (1976) Autophysiopsychic (1977) In a Temple Garden (1979) In Nigeria (1983) Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony (1987)
Split album	Stable Mates (with A. K. Salim, 1957)
With others	The Complete RCA Victor Recordings of Dizzy Gillespie (1940s) Byrd Jazz (Donald Byrd, 1955) Autumn Leaves (Cannonball Adderley, 1963) Nippon Soul (Cannonball Adderley, 1963) That's Right! (Nat Adderley, 1960) My Kinda Swing (Ernestine Anderson, 1960) 1st Bassman (Paul Chambers, 1960) Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1960) Images of Curtis Fuller (1960) Louis Hayes with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef (1960) Pre-Bird/Mingus Revisited (Charles Mingus, 1960) Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960) Color Changes (Clark Terry, 1960) Soulnik (Doug Watkins, 1960) Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960) Grantstand (Grant Green, 1961) The African Beat (Art Blakey and The Afro-Drum Ensemble, 1962) The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (1962) Cannonball in Europe! (Cannonball Adderley, 1962) Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962) Afro-Soul/Drum Orgy (A. K. Salim, 1964) Invitation to Openness (Les McCann, 1971) Homeless Brother (Don McLean, 1974) Double Time (Leon Redbone, 1977) Something You Got (Art Farmer, 1977)
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