MILES DAVIS - The Complete Plugged Nickel Live 1965 (Reissue) - Deluxe 8CD Box Set [JAN 30]

Limited Edition 8CD Box Set featuring over seven hours of music, new packaging, liner Notes, and archival photos.

Miles Davis – The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 to be released on Vinyl & CD For First Time In 30 Years on January 30 via Columbia/Legacy Recordings.

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.

8CD - 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.

Tracklist: 

CD1 - December 22, 1965 – 1st Set
1. If I Were A Bell 16:42
2. Stella By Starlight 13:09
3. Walkin’ 11:01
4. I Fall In Love Too Easily 11:43
5. The Theme 10:19

CD2 - December 22, 1965 – 2nd Set
1. My Funny Valentine 16:33
2. Four 15:05
3. When I Fall In Love 10:44

CD3 - December 22, 1965 – 2nd Set (cont’d)
1. Agitation 13:03
2. ‘Round Midnight 8:42
3. Milestones 14:04
4. The Theme 0:38

CD4 - December 22, 1965 – 3rd Set
1. All Of You 14:38
2. Oleo 6:05
3. I Fall In Love Too Easily 11:53
4. No Blues 17:35 
5. I Thought About You 11:03
6. The Theme 8:05

CD5 - December 23, 1965 – 1st Set
1. If I Were A Bell 13:29
2. Stella By Starlight 13:09
3. Walkin’ 11:01
4. I Fall In Love Too Easily 12:07
5. The Theme 2:50

CD6 - December 23, 1965 – 2nd Set
1. All Of You 10:39
2. Agitation 10:48
3. My Funny Valentine 13:52
4. On Green Dolphin Street 12:48
5. So What 13:36
6. The Theme 3:28

CD7 - December 23, 1965 – 3rd Set
1. When I Fall In Love 13:39
2. Milestones 11:49
3. Autumn Leaves 11:56
4. I Fall In Love Too Easily 11:43
5. No Blues 20:06
6. The Theme 0:22

CD8 - December 23, 1965 – 4th Set
1. Stella By Starlight 14:16
2. All Blues 12:18
3. Yesterdays 15:00
4. The Theme 4:51