Intense Records

The Complete Plugged Nickel Live 1965 (10LP)

Pre-order - 30/01/2026

£154.20 (£185.04 incl. VAT)

Vinyl: 

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. 

TRACKLISTING 

VINYL TRACKLIST

LP1 - December 22, 1965 – 1st Set

Side A

1. If I Were A Bell                            16:42

Side B

1. Stella By Starlight                       13:09
2. Walkin’                                           11:01

LP2 - December 22, 1965 – 1st Set (cont’d)

Side C 

1. I Fall In Love Too Easily             11:43
2. The Theme                                    10:19

Side D - December 22, 1965 – 2nd Set

1. My Funny Valentine                  16:33

LP3 - December 22, 1965 – 2nd Set (cont’d)

Side E 

1. Four                                                 15:05
2. When I Fall In Love                     10:44

Side F

1. Agitation                                       13:13
2. ‘Round Midnight                        8:42

LP4 - December 22, 1965 – 2nd Set (cont’d)

Side G

1. Milestones                                    14:04                  
2. The Theme                                    0:38

December 22, 1965 – 3rd Set

1. I Fall In Love Too Easily             11:53

Side H

1. All Of You                                      14:38    
2. Oleo                                                6:05

LP5 December 22, 1965 – 3rd Set (cont’d)

Side I

1. No Blues                                        17:35

Side J

1. I Thought About You                 11:03
2. The Theme                                    8:05

LP6 - December 23, 1965 – 1st Set

Side K

1. If I Were A Bell                            13:29
2. Stella By Starlight                       13:09

Side L

1. Walkin’                                           11:01
2. I Fall In Love Too Easily             12:07
3. The Theme                                    2:50

LP7 - December 23, 1965 – 2nd Set

Side M

1. All Of You                                      10:39
2. Agitation                                       10:48

Side N

1. My Funny Valentine                  13:52
2. On Green Dolphin Street          12:48

LP8 - December 23, 1965 – 2nd Set (cont’d)

Side O

1. So What                                         13:36
2. The Theme                                    3:28

Side P - December 23, 1965 – 3rd Set

1. When I Fall In Love                     13:39
2. Milestones                                    11:49

LP9 - December 23, 1965 – 3rd Set (cont’d)

Side Q

1. Autumn Leaves                            11:56
2. I Fall In Love Too Easily             11:43

Side R

1. No Blues                                        20:06
2. The Theme                                    0:22

LP10 - December 23, 1965 – 4th Set

Side S

1. Stella By Starlight                       14:16
2. All Blues                                         12:18

Side T

1. Yesterdays                                    15:00
2. The Theme                                    4:51