Four-page leaflet covering the CD release catalogue of 株式会社アルファエンタープライズ (Alpha Enterprise), Tokyo, dated March 1982 - half a year before the CD format launched in Japan (DENON DN-3000F and SONY CDP-101 came out only in October 1982). The cover stacks three CD jackets: the flagship DELOS Digital Master Series Tchaikovsky ‘Pathétique’ under Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, plus the jazz titles Freddie Hubbard ‘Back to Birdland’ and Charles Mingus. Inside is a grid of 26 discs across four labels - American DELOS (classics, DCD numbers, ¥4,000), Japanese Real Time (Rozsnyai classics and jazz from Freddie Hubbard, Art Pepper, Don Menza, Jack Sheldon - RT numbers), αSound (Eiji Kitamura swing, ¥3,500) and Yamaha (Session III, YCB, ¥3,500). The most telling thing in the catalogue is five entries marked NOW PRINTING: jackets weren’t ready in time for the leaflet, and the catalogue is literally chasing the release schedule. The latest recording on the page is Joe Farrell ‘Sam Day’ from March 26, 1982 - still NOW PRINTING. The leaflet went to print in those very last days of March 1982, when Japanese listeners didn’t yet have a player to spin these discs on, but Alpha Enterprise was already lining up the catalogue for the market that was coming.
- DELOS Digital Master Series - American digital-recording label founded 1973 in Los Angeles, classical repertoire on digital master tapes
- リアルタイム - Real Time - Japanese digital label, fully DDD production (digital recording, mixing, mastering)
- αサウンド - Alpha Sound - Alpha Enterprise's in-house sub-label for jazz releases
- コンパクトディスク・デジタルオーディオ - Compact Disc Digital Audio - the format that launched in Japan on October 1, 1982 with DENON DN-3000F and SONY CDP-101
| Model | Type | Price |
|---|---|---|
| DCD3001 | Haydn & Hummel, Trumpet Concertos - Gerard Schwartz, NY Chamber Brass (DELOS) | ¥4,000 |
| DCD3002 | The Sound of Trumpets - Schwartz, NY Chamber Brass Ensemble (DELOS) | ¥4,000 |
| DCD3006 | Debussy & Ravel, impressionist Water Music - NOW PRINTING (DELOS) | ¥4,000 |
| DCD3007 | Vivaldi Four Seasons - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (DELOS) | ¥4,000 |
| DCD3008 | Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.1 - NOW PRINTING (DELOS) | ¥4,000 |
| DCD3009 | Beethoven, Sonatas Op.57 'Appassionata' and Op.111 - Cécile Ousset (DELOS) | ¥4,000 |
| DCD3010 | Handel Water Music, complete - Schwartz, NY Chamber (DELOS) | ¥4,000 |
| DCD3011 | Dvořák, Serenade for Strings in E - Schwartz, NY Chamber (DELOS) | ¥4,000 |
| DCD3014 | Mozart, Symphonies No.40 & No.41 'Jupiter' (DELOS) | ¥4,000 |
| DCD3015 | Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 - Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra (DELOS) | ¥4,000 |
| DCD3016 | Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6 'Pathétique' - Ormandy, Philadelphia (DELOS) | ¥4,000 |
| DCD3017 | Beethoven Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' (DELOS) | ¥4,000 |
| DCD3019 | Bejun Mehta, boy soprano (DELOS) | ¥4,000 |
| DCD3023 | War Suite - American Brass Quintet (DELOS) | ¥4,000 |
| RT2001 | Favourite Orchestra Album Vol. 1 - Rozsnyai, Philharmonia Hungarica (Real Time) | ¥4,000 |
| RT2002 | Real Hot Jazz - Freddie Hubbard, Don Menza, Jack Sheldon (Real Time) | ¥4,000 |
| RT2003 | Favourite Orchestra Album Vol. 2 - Rozsnyai (Real Time) | ¥4,000 |
| RT2004 | Favourite Orchestra Album Vol. 3 - Rozsnyai, Pachelbel/Handel/Smetana (Real Time) | ¥4,000 |
| RT3001 | Burnin' - Don Menza & His '80s Big Band (Real Time) | ¥4,000 |
| RT3003 | Playin' It Straight - Jack Sheldon (Real Time) | ¥4,000 |
| RT3004 | The John Dentz Reunion Band with Chick Corea and Anne Watts (Real Time) | ¥4,000 |
| RT3005 | Back to Birdland - Freddie Hubbard (Real Time) | ¥4,000 |
| RT3008 | Sam Day - Joe Farrell - NOW PRINTING (Real Time) | ¥4,000 |
| RT3009 | Darn That Dream - Art Pepper (Real Time) | ¥4,000 |
| ABS5001 | Swingin' Age Part 1 - Eiji Kitamura (αSound) | ¥3,500 |
| YCB3001 | Session III (Yamaha) | ¥3,500 |
