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

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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]

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)

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]

• 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)