Miles Davis Live at the Plugged Nickel

[hbbfam]

Just mentioned over at Hoffman:

https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEODAI-173898

[jazzbo]

I'm not peronally doubting this is legit. This is a Tower Records Japan SACD exclusive release--cdjapan is acting as a "proxy" here. Tower Records Japan have released limited edition SACDs of ECM and Impulse material that I am aware of, and possibly others, legit licensed releases. This seems like a similar release.

https://tower.jp/item/6160059/コンプリート・ライヴ・アット・ザ・プラグド・ニッケル1965＜タワーレコード限定-完全限定盤＞

[Teasing the Korean]

Or you can buy the lossless download from Qobuz for $52.

[jlhoots]

Or I can listen to the CD box set I already own.

[BFrank]

11 hours ago, jlhoots said:

Or I can listen to the CD box set I already own.

Same ... 👍

[Gheorghe]

I still have the 2 LPs, it´s very fine and goes into further directions. Agitation I think is a very fine track. 

But I don´t think I re-buy another version of something I already have. Would be too much for me, but good idea, sometimes I´ll go back and listen to those two old LPs. Or was it a double album, whatever.....

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Although I know a lot of people are going to jump on this, I'm going to pass. I have the CD box set and that's enough for me.

[jazzbo]

There's only 1000 copies so. That's not many worldwide. Japan is like shingles. . . it doesn't care. 

[RiRiIII]

https://vinyl.sonymusic.com/products/miles-davis-the-complete-plugged-nickel-live-1965-10lp-box-set

Ship Date: January 30, 2026

A 10LP reissue of Miles Davis's legendary 1965 "Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel" performances, featuring Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams, is being released for the jazz legend's centennial, featuring high-resolution masters, individually designed LP jackets, and an extensive booklet. These recordings, considered among the greatest live jazz albums ever made, capture the Second Great Quintet in a moment of peak improvisation, dismantling and rebuilding tunes on the fly. The new set, cut from Mosaic's high-res masters, offers fans access to one of jazz's most mythologized live events after the original release was relegated to pricey secondary markets in the early 90s. 

• Format: 10 LPs, pressed on 140-gram black vinyl. 
  Content: The full 7+ hours of music from the seven sets recorded on December 22-23, 1965, at Chicago's Plugged Nickel Café. 

• Masters: Cut from high-resolution Mosaic masters. 
• Packaging: Each LP has a newly designed jacket, and the set is housed in a gold foil-embossed slipcase box. 
• Booklet: A 44-page, 12"x12" Smyth-sewn book with rare Plugged Nickel photos and extensive new liner notes by Syd Schwartz and Bob Blumenthal

   

  

Edited Friday at 05:19 PM by RiRiIII

[bertrand]

No CD???

[jcam_44]

There is a CD set as well

https://milesdavisstore.com/products/the-complete-plugged-nickel-live-1965-8-cd-box-set

Edited Friday at 06:23 PM by jcam_44
added link

[colinmce]

Glad it's back in print, but the new CD packaging looks a bit cruddier. Glad to have the one they put real time, money, and labor into.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

3 hours ago, colinmce said:

Glad it's back in print, but the new CD packaging looks a bit cruddier. Glad to have the one they put real time, money, and labor into.

At least they stopped with the stupid Disc 2A & Disc 2B stuff.

[Guy Berger]

They should release the June 1969 Plugged Nickel recording with it as a bonus disc

[Chuck Nessa]

4 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

At least they stopped with the stupid Disc 2A & Disc 2B stuff.

Think "Set 2a and Set 2b" and relax.

[BFrank]

I'm surprised they're re-releasing it on CD. I don't think it's been OOP for very long. Seems like something that would be for vinyl collectors.

 

[jazzbo]

It's been out of print a long time.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

7 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Think "Set 2a and Set 2b" and relax.

It didn't bother me that much. I just think it was stupid. Set and disc are not synonymous.

And FWIW, why stop there if that's what they were doing? Why not call the first nights' discs 1A, 1B, 1C & 1D & the second nights' discs 2A, 2B, 2C & 2D? It would have made just as much sense.

[bertrand]

18 hours ago, jcam_44 said:

There is a CD set as well

https://milesdavisstore.com/products/the-complete-plugged-nickel-live-1965-8-cd-box-set

Thanks. The new fad is for press releases to only mention the LPs.

[Stompin at the Savoy]

It's unclear whether the CD set mastering is any different from the earlier Legacy CD set, which I have.  I might be interested in a hi res download but they don't seem to mention any downloads. Probably end up sticking with original cds...  It's a great box and I've often wondered why it remained oop for so long.

[jazzbo]

My guess is the cds will be the same Redbook mastering as the Redbook layer of the Tower Records SACD set. That would be sourced from the Mosaic LP masters. If the tapes were found between now and the SACD release they would be announcing that as a perceived selling incentive. That is likely a bit of an improvement over the original Redbook set (I haven't compared them myself). I'd be tempted by the vinyl set. . . we'll see if I give in. My original 2 LP US release sounds really good; I've always wondered what the Mosaic set might sound like.

[JSngry]

It would have been cool if they referenced the OG Japanese LP covers for a concept. What they're using now is a bit "generic".

[BFrank]

13 hours ago, jazzbo said:

It's been out of print a long time.

Oh ... OK then! 😎

[Rooster_Ties]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

It would have been cool if they referenced the OG Japanese LP covers for a concept. What they're using now is a bit "generic".

Agree!  I never had the original 7-disc Japanese set — but that reminds me…

I “ran into” a fellow Miles fanatic online around 1992-93, who made me cassette dubs of the whole Japanese set — and then I got the US 8cd set a few years later.

But it was well over a decade later before I ever saw (online) what the original 1992 Japanese packaging looked like…

https://www.discogs.com/release/8071963-Miles-Davis-Complete-Live-At-Plugged-Nickel-1965

[JSngry]

1976. Think about that.