The Complete Plugged Nickel Live 1965 - 10 LP Box Set

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. 

 

LP1 - December 22, 1965 – 1^st Set

Side A

1. If I Were A Bell  

Side B                   

1. Stella By Starlight                       

2. Walkin’                       

LP2 - December 22, 1965 – 1^st Set (cont’d)

Side C

1. I Fall In Love Too Easily             

2. The Theme  

Side D

December 22, 1965 – 2^nd Set

1. My Funny Valentine                  

LP3 - December 22, 1965 – 2^nd Set (cont’d)

Side E

1. Four                          

2. When I Fall In Love 

Side F                    

1.  Agitation                     

2. ‘Round Midnight                      

LP4 - December 22, 1965 – 2^nd Set (cont’d)

Side G

1. Milestones                                                    

2. The Theme                         

December 22, 1965 – 3^rd Set

3. I Fall In Love Too Easily             

Side H

1. All Of You                                      

2. Oleo                          

LP5 December 22, 1965 – 3^rd Set (cont’d)

Side I

1. No Blues

Side J                             

1. I Thought About You                 

2. The Theme                         

LP6 - December 23, 1965 – 1^st Set

Side K

1. If I Were A Bell                            

2. Stella By Starlight                       

Side L

1. Walkin’                       

2. I Fall In Love Too Easily             

3. The Theme                         

LP7 - December 23, 1965 – 2^nd Set

Side M

1. All Of You                           

2. Agitation                     

Side N

1. My Funny Valentine                  

2. On Green Dolphin Street          

LP8 - December 23, 1965 – 2^nd Set (cont’d)

Side O

1. So What                          

2. The Theme                         

Side P

December 23, 1965 – 3^rd Set

1. When I Fall In Love                     

2. Milestones                    

LP9 - December 23, 1965 – 3^rd Set (cont’d)

Side Q

1. Autumn Leaves                        

2. I Fall In Love Too Easily 

Side R             

1. No Blues                         

2. The Theme                         

LP10 - December 23, 1965 – 4^th Set

Side S

1. Stella By Starlight                       

2. All Blues                         

Side T

1. Yesterdays                    

2. The Theme