Notes: | Compact disc. Jazz vocals; principally by Duke Ellington. Analog recordings. Previously released as analog discs. Original biographical and program notes by Norman Granz and Leonard Feather and new preface by Patricia Willard inserted in booklet (65 p. : ill.) Ella Fitzgerald, vocals ; in part with Duke Ellington and His Orchestra ; in part with jazz ensemble including (in various combinations): Ben Webster, tenor saxophone ; Stuff Smith, violin ; Paul Smith, Oscar Peterson, piano ; Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, guitar ; Joe Mondragon, Ray Brown, bass ; Alvin Stoller, drums. Recorded September 1956 and June, August, September, and October 1957. Tracks 5-10 and 12-15 on disc three are previously unissued.
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