Featuring over 12 hours of music, this 10CD retrospective from Verve Records, Ella Fitzgerald: The Voice of Jazz presents some of the finest jazz singing ever recorded. Tracing an entire lifetime's devotion to the art of the song, we hear everything from the eighteen-year-old Ella's first studio recordings made with Chick Webb and his Orchestra in June 1935, ‘I'll Chase The Blues Away’ and ‘Love and Kisses’ – the singer having landed the job just three months previously – right up to the title track of her final studio album, the appositely titled All That Jazz recorded in 1989. With over 200 newly remastered studio (CDs 1-8) and live tracks (CDs 9-10), the beautifully packaged box set includes a 96-page hardback book with an extensive essay on the singer's career, illustrations, album covers and photos, as well as complete track information and credits. From swing to bebop, and from calypsos to bossa nova, Ella could do it all – brilliantly. This is an absolute treasure trove.