Yusef Lateef Yusef Lateef's Detroit Latitude 42° 30' Longitude 83° Vinyl LP RSD 2023

This is a Record Store Day release. Stock will be available on a first come first served basis, and strictly one per customer.

Tracklist:

1. Bishop School
2. Livingston Playground
3. Eastern Market
4. Belle Isle
5. Russell And Eliot
6. Raymond Winshester
7. Woodward Avenue
8. That Lucky Old Sun

Gilles Peterson has been given the keys to Warner’s impressive Jazz back-catalogue and hand-selected Yusef Lateef’s legendary Detroit Latitude 42° 30' Longitude 83° for Arc Records next release. This is the first time the album has been reissued on vinyl since its originally came out in 1969. The album is Lateef’s nostalgic love-letter to his hometown and one of the rawest works in his catalogue but the record looks forward as well as back. The compositions are laced with the seeds of 70s Jazz Funk that would come to dominate the following decade.

The artwork, printed on heavy-weight card, is faithful to the original down to the 1960’s-style tip on sleeve and features the original sleeve notes alongside updated liner notes. The record itself is pressed on 180-gram black vinyl. The release is physical only and limited to just 2000 copies.