MILES DAVIS - The Complete Plugged Nickel Live 1965 | CD Box Set

Event re-release of the legendary live album in 10-LP and 8-CD box sets. Over seven hours of music, new packaging, new liner notes and archive photos!

Six decades on, this music continues to amaze, confound, and inspire. What happened over two nights in an unassuming little club in Chicago, located beneath a bakery, stands as a fascinating and unexpected testament to a pivotal moment in the evolution of Miles Davis' leadership and sound. Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment’s catalog division, today announce the re-release 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' 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 only been in the band for just over a year, and the group, fresh from recording E.S.P., was coalescing into what would become jazz’s most innovative small ensemble. What unfolded on the Chicago club stage 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 its 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: live, unstable, and forever changing.

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 that includes ten individual sleeves and a 40-page booklet. An 8-CD edition is also available. Both formats include new liner notes written by Syd Schwartz, who uncovers 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, more vibrant than ever, challenging a new generation of listeners.