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 8CD edition mirrors the original sequence. Each CD comes in its own newly-designed mini gatefold jacket, housed in a gold foil-embossed slipcase box. The 44 page perfect bound 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.

[CD1 – December 22, 1965 – 1st Set] 01. If I Were A Bell / 02. Stella By Starlight / 03. Walkin’ / 04. I Fall In Love Too Easily / 05. The Theme

[CD2 – December 22, 1965 – 2nd Set] 01. My Funny Valentine / 02. Four / 03. When I Fall In Love

[CD3 – December 22, 1965 – 2nd Set (cont’d)] 01. Agitation / 02. ‘Round Midnight / 03. Milestones / 04. The Theme

[CD4 – December 22, 1965 – 3rd Set] 01. All Of You / 02. Oleo / 03. I Fall In Love Too Easily / 04. No Blues / 05. I Thought About You / 06. The Theme

[CD5 – December 23, 1965 – 1st Set] 01. If I Were A Bell / 02. Stella By Starlight / 03. Walkin’ / 04. I Fall In Love Too Easily / 05. The Theme

[CD6 – December 23, 1965 – 2nd Set] 01. All Of You / 02. Agitation / 03. My Funny Valentine / 04. On Green Dolphin Street / 05. So What / 06. The Theme

[CD7 – December 23, 1965 – 3rd Set] 01. When I Fall In Love / 02. Milestones / 03. Autumn Leaves / 04. I Fall In Love Too Easily / 05. No Blues / 06. The Theme

[CD8 – December 23, 1965 – 4th Set] 01. Stella By Starlight / 02. All Blues / 03. Yesterdays / 04. The Theme