Miles Davis - The Complete Plugged Nickel Live 1965 [10xLP - Box Set]

Release Date: January 30, 2026
Label: SONY

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. 

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Tracklist

1. December 22 1965 First Set
2. If I Were A Bell
3. Stella By Starlight
4. Walkin'
5. I Fall In Love Too Easily
6. The Theme
7. December 22 1965 Second Set
8. My Funny Valentine
9. Four
10. When I Fall In Love
11. Agitation
12. 'Round About Midnight
13. Milestones
14. The Theme
15. December 22 1965 Third Set
16. All Of You
17. Oleo
18. I Fall In Love Too Easily
19. No Blues
20. I Thought About You
21. The Theme
22. December 23 1965 First Set
23. If I Were A Bell
24. Stella By Starlight
25. Walkin'
26. I Fall In Love Too Easily
27. The Theme
28. December 23 1965 Second Set
29. All Of You
30. Agitation
31. My Funny Valentine
32. On Green Dolphin Street
33. So What
34. The Theme
35. December 23 1965 Third Set
36. When I Fall In Love
37. Milestones
38. Autumn Leaves
39. I Fall In Love Too Easily
40. No Blues
41. The Theme
42. December 23 1965 Fourth Set
43. Stella By Starlight
44. All Blues
45. Yesterdays
46. The Theme