Universal Japan Fall 2021 Reissue Series

[jazzcorner]

On 15.8.2021 at 0:18 AM, Late said:

It looks like Universal Japan is planning a fairly extensive reissue campaign of select Blue Note, Pacific Jazz, Liberty, Verve, EmArcy, Impulse!, and Capitol titles. Two batches slated so far:

October 20, 2021

November 11, 2021

Looks like some Transition, Argo, Cadet, and United Artists titles too.

And one or two Solid State, Decca, and East Wind titles ...

The links cannot be open

[jazzbo]

They open fine for me. . . .

[Brad]

Here is the CD Japan link, October 20 Releases, which includes the o es released on October 20 and to be released on November 24. 

Edited November 21, 2021 by Brad

[Dub Modal]

On 11/21/2021 at 5:23 PM, Brad said:

Here is the CD Japan link, October 20 Releases, which includes the o es released on October 20 and to be released on November 24. 

Those Gene Harris albums, Tone Tantrum and In A Special Way, are interesting. 

[Dan Gould]

25 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

Those Gene Harris albums, Tone Tantrum and In A Special Way, are interesting. 

If by "interesting" you mean "suck in a major way" then I, the former Gene Harris Fanatic, completely agree.

[Dub Modal]

21 minutes ago, Dan Gould said:

If by "interesting" you mean "suck in a major way" then I, the former Gene Harris Fanatic, completely agree.

 Nice. Yeah, they come across as smooth jazz-funk lite. Bernie Worrell should've been called in as a consultant. 

[Д.Д.]

All these reissues (there is a full list - 200 titles - at Discogs ) are suddenly listed as unavailable at amazon.co.jp. This is too fast for all of them to go OOP - they were released in October - November 2021. Same goes for other recent Universal Japan reissue series, e.g. this one. Anybody knows what's happening? Perhaps some manufacturing issues at Universal Japan?  

Edited March 25, 2022 by Д.Д.

[jazzbo]

Perhaps amazon.co.jp has decided to not source these going forward. Looking at a few of these titles on cdjapan.co.jp still shows them "available from supplier." It could be that there was an availability limit on this series (there sometimes/often is on Japanese releases, a set date when they may be no longer available) and amazon Japan may not reorder after that date. I don't know. Though it wouldn't surprise me that they may not be available for too much longer, they seem to be able to be ordered elsewhere.

Edited March 25, 2022 by jazzbo

[felser]

I am used to seeing six month limits listed on the tray cards of Japanese reissues like that.  Makes no sense to me, but there it is.

[jazzbo]

Japan has their very own unique system of cd manufacturing and distribution that is Japan-centric and doesn't really seem to take into account international sales with some exceptions (Sony seems to, their Blu-Spec and Blu-Spec CD2 and SACD releases seem to be kept in print "long time.") As I understand it they at least used to query stores and sales points about upcoming presses, adjust their pressing quantities accordingly, and distribute. They may then repress or remaster and re-release as demand arrives. . . or not.

Edited March 25, 2022 by jazzbo