Miles Davis -The Complete Plugged Nickel Live 1965 10LP Box Set

Release Date: 01/30/2026

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. 

Vinyl Box Set Track Listing:

LP1 - December 22, 1965 – 1st Set
Side A
1. If I Were A Bell
Side B
1. Stella By Starlight
2. Walkin’

LP2 - December 22, 1965 – 1st Set (cont’d)
Side C
1. I Fall In Love Too Easily
2. The Theme
Side D
December 22, 1965 – 2nd Set
1. My Funny Valentine

LP3 - December 22, 1965 – 2nd Set (cont’d)
Side E
1. Four
2. When I Fall In Love
Side F
1.  Agitation
2. ‘Round Midnight

LP4 - December 22, 1965 – 2nd Set (cont’d)
Side G
1. Milestones
2. The Theme
December 22, 1965 – 3rd Set
3. I Fall In Love Too Easily 
Side H
1. All Of You
2. Oleo

LP5 December 22, 1965 – 3rd Set (cont’d)
Side I
1. No Blues
Side J
1. I Thought About You
2. The Theme 

LP6 - December 23, 1965 – 1st 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 – 2nd Set
Side M
1. All Of You 
2. Agitation  
Side N
1. My Funny Valentine 
2. On Green Dolphin Street

LP8 - December 23, 1965 – 2nd Set (cont’d)
Side O
1. So What
2. The Theme
Side P
December 23, 1965 – 3rd Set
1. When I Fall In Love
2. Milestones

LP9 - December 23, 1965 – 3rd 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 – 4th Set
Side S
1. Stella By Starlight
2. All Blues
Side T
1. Yesterdays
2. The Theme