The Complete Plugged Nickel Live Set 1965 (Vinyl 10LP Box Set)
Miles Davis – The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 to be released on Vinyl & CD For First Time In 30 Years!
The most requested Miles Davis reissue arrives for his centennial in spectacular style. What began as a holiday residency at Chicago’s Plugged Nickel Café became the crucible where the Second Great Quintet forged its identity. Miles, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams delivered a masterclass in risk and invention, dismantling familiar tunes and rebuilding them on the fly. Producer Teo Macero captured every note across seven sets on December 22 and 23, 1965.
Portions trickled out in the ’70s and ’80s, but only in the early ’90s did Legacy (CD) and Mosaic (LP) reveal the full scope of seven and half hours of revelatory music—instantly hailed as one of the greatest live jazz recordings ever, earning the Penguin Jazz Guide’s coveted “Crown,” and becoming pricey, secondary-market rarities.
Now, 30 years later and six decades after the shows themselves, veteran fans finally get the repress they’ve demanded, and new fans get a chance to own one of the most mythologized live engagements in jazz history.
This new 10LP edition mirrors the original sequence, cut from the high-res Mosaic masters and pressed on 140-gram black vinyl. Each LP comes in its own newly designed jacket, housed in a gold foil-embossed slipcase box. The 44 page 12”x12” Smyth Sewn book includes rare Plugged Nickel photos and extensive new liner notes and track-by-track commentary by Syd Schwartz alongside Bob Blumenthal’s original essay.
Tracklist:
1. If I Were A Bell
2. Stella By Starlight
3. Walkin’
4. I Fall In Love Too Easily
5. The Theme
6. My Funny Valentine
7. Four
8. When I Fall In Love
9. Agitation
10. ‘Round Midnight
11. Milestones
12. The Theme
13. All Of You
14. Oleo / 03. I Fall In Love Too Easily
15. No Blues
16. I Thought About You
17. The Theme
18. If I Were A Bell
19. Stella By Starlight
20. Walkin’
21. I Fall In Love Too Easily
22. The Theme
23. All Of You
24. Agitation
25. My Funny Valentine
26. On Green Dolphin Street
27. So What
28. The Theme
29. When I Fall In Love
30. Milestones
31. Autumn Leaves
32. I Fall In Love Too Easily
33. No Blues
34. The Theme
35. Stella By Starlight
36. All Blues
37. Yesterdays
38. The Theme