Miles Davis - Live at the Plugged Nickel: December 23, 1965 - Set Two [2LP]

In December 1965, the Miles Davis Quintet—featuring Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams—occupied Chicago's Plugged Nickel during one of jazz's most transformative periods. This live recording captures the Second Great Quintet operating at peak creative tension, where disciplined musicianship meets radical reimagining of harmonic and melodic conventions. Night after night, the ensemble deconstructed standards and originals alike, treating "wrong" notes as compositional opportunities rather than errors. Performances of "All Of You," "My Funny Valentine," "So What," and "Agitation" emerge as entirely new entities, their familiar frameworks dissolved through collective improvisation. Over sixty minutes of music, this 2LP black vinyl edition documents a quintet in the midst of revolutionizing modern jazz language, where spontaneity and technical mastery converge. Part of Sony Legacy's comprehensive 2026 reissue campaign celebrating Miles Davis's centennial.