The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel 1965

Recorded over two nights in Chicago in 1965, this legendary run captures Miles Davis and his Second Great Quintet redefining what live jazz could be. With Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams in peak form, the music feels both volatile and telepathic with standards like ‘Stella by Starlight’ and ‘All of You’ pulled apart and rebuilt mid-flight. The interplay is astonishing: Davis’s clipped phrases sparring with Williams’s restless drumming and Hancock’s harmonic traps. Long circulated in partial form, the full performances finally return in pristine sound, revealing just how radical these sets were. It’s the sound of a band testing its own limits.