Miles Davis – The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965
Event reissue of the cult live album in 10-vinyl and 8-CD box sets. Over seven hours of music, new packaging, new liner notes, and archival photos!
Six decades later, this music continues to amaze, confound, and inspire. What happened over two nights in an unpretentious little Chicago club located beneath a bakery is a fascinating and unexpected testament to a pivotal moment in the evolution of Miles Davis's leadership and sound. Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment's catalog division, today announce the reissue of these legendary recordings: THE COMPLETE LIVE AT THE PLUGGED NICKEL 1965. Available from January 30, 2026, this comprehensive box set will mark a key moment in the celebration of Miles Davis's centenary next year.
The recordings capture Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet—featuring Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams—at a pivotal moment. Wayne Shorter had joined the band just over a year prior, and the group, fresh from recording E.S.P., was consolidating into what would become jazz’s most innovative small ensemble. What unfolded on stage at the Chicago club was not just a performance, but a provocation. Inspired by a pact initiated by drummer Tony Williams to play "anti-music," the band surprised everyone, completely upending their well-rehearsed setlist.
As Miles would later say, "We found a way to make the old music as new as the new music we were recording." This is the sound of the Second Great Quintet becoming itself: alive, unstable, and always in flux.
Initially released in 1995 as a limited edition LP box set, The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel has been out of print for nearly three decades. The new 10-LP edition offers the complete performances, over seven hours of music, in a newly designed box set including ten individual sleeves and a 40-page booklet. An 8-CD edition is also available. Both formats include new liner notes penned by Syd Schwartz, revealing the radical spirit of the performances, as well as classic texts by jazz historian Bob Blumenthal.
Sixty years later, The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 returns, vibrant as ever, challenging a new generation of listeners.
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