Digitally remastered release, including a 16 page booklet with original artwork and origial as well as updated liner notes. This 2-CD set presents the complete contents of the original album The First Lady of Song, along with all other tracks from the same sessions and several further rarely heard dates from the same period. All of the tracks showcase Ella as the main singer backed by various orchestras and instrumental groups. Among the many highlights here are Ella’s original versions of such hits as Mr. Paganini and My One and Only Love among many others. A 1947 live vocal duet with drummer (and also singer) Buddy Rich, taken from a radio broadcast and first issued on a V-disc, closes this extraordinary collection