{"id":900,"date":"2007-04-14T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=900"},"modified":"2007-04-14T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T08:06:00","slug":"correspondence_the_future_of_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/04\/correspondence_the_future_of_o\/","title":{"rendered":"Correspondence: The Future Of OJCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rifftides<\/em> reader Eric R. Quick writes from Gaithersburg, Maryland about one of the CDs reviewed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2007\/04\/cds_in_brief.html\"target=\"_blank\">this recent posting<\/a> and about the valuable collection of which it is a part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With regard to <em>Red&#8217;s Good Groove<\/em> &#8211; you say get it while you can (I already have the CD)<br \/>\nWill the OJC catalog (or much of it) be deleted by its current owners? What is the word?<br \/>\nShould I be purchasing all those discs I have never gotten around to buying?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I passed along Mr. Quick&#8217;s question to Nick Phillips of Concord Records, since Concord&#8217;s purchase of Fantasy Inc. the owner of the OJC (Original Jazz Classics) archive. I asked him about the closing of the company&#8217;s Berkeley, California, warehouse where much of the OJC stock was stored. Here is his reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While it is true that the Berkley warehouse is closed, that doesn&#8217;t mean we&#8217;re embarking on any kind of wholesale deletion campaign.  That warehouse facility is closed because we&#8217;ve consolidated our warehousing operations to one facility, in Cleveland (where our Telarc operations are based).<br \/>\nWe are not planning to &#8220;delete the OJC catalog.&#8221;<br \/>\nThat said, as the consumer trends in acquiring music continues to shift toward downloads (much in the same way that there was a shift from LP to CD) there may be, however, instances of titles that simply are not selling any more on CD that we will not reprint in that format; but they will continue to be available via digital download (via i-tunes, emusic.com, etc.).<br \/>\nFinally, there are also many examples of titles where we&#8217;ve taken the OJC CD version of a classic album off of the market, when we reissue a new version of the same title (such as our RVG Remasters series, and our new Keepnews Collection series).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rifftides reader Eric R. Quick writes from Gaithersburg, Maryland about one of the CDs reviewed in this recent posting and about the valuable collection of which it is a part: With regard to Red&#8217;s Good Groove &#8211; you say get it while you can (I already have the CD) Will the OJC catalog (or much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}