The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965

Miles Davis - The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel 1965 (1995) {8CD Box Set Columbia CXK 66955}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 2.72 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 1.04 Gb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 38 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1965, 1995 Sony Music / Columbia / Legacy | CXK 66955
Jazz / Hard Bop / Modal Music / Post Bop

This eight-CD set captures Miles Davis's second great quintet at its fiercest, loose with both the blossoming of familiarity between the players and the broadness of its attacks on the mostly well known tunes the group called during two nights at Chicago's Plugged Nickel in 1965. And you can hear it all, from "The Theme" that closed the quintet's sets to multiple, radically different takes of several tunes. Davis formed this band with just its heated potential in mind, opting for youth in Wayne Shorter's tenor sax, Herbie Hancock's piano, Ron Carter's bass, and, especially, Tony Williams's unlocked rhythmic energy.

Miles Davis - Highlights From The Plugged Nickel (1965) {Columbia}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC+CUE+LOG -> 450 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 175 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 24 Mb
© 1995 Columbia / Legacy | 481434 2
Jazz / Hard Bop / Modal Music / Trumpet

Replacing the previous records Cookin' at the Plugged Nickel and Live at the Plugged Nickel, Highlights from the Plugged Nickel collects a handful of tracks from the mammoth eight-CD set The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965. Two of the tracks on Highlights are songs that were issued in their complete versions on the box, but that isn't what makes the album preferable to Cookin' and Live. On Highlights, the fidelity is stunning and the selection is first-rate – the disc flows like one of the original concerts captured on the box. For listeners who don't want to invest in the box, Highlights is a worthwhile purchase.

Miles Davis - Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis 1963-1964 (2004) {7CD Columbia C7K 90840}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC+CUE+LOG -> 2.12 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 958 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 50 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1963-64, 2004 Columbia / Legacy / Sony Music | C7K 90840
Jazz / Hard Bop / Modal Music / Trumpet

Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis 1963-1964 is an anomaly among the retrospective sets that have been issued from the late artist's catalog. It does not focus on particular collaborations (Miles with Coltrane, Gil Evans, the second quintet), complete sessions of historic albums (Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way, and Jack Johnson), or live runs (Plugged Nickel and Montreux). Instead, it is a portrait of the artist in flux, in the space between legendary bands, when he was looking for a new mode of expression, trying to find the band that would help him get there. These seven CDs begin after the demise of bands that included John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb, and Wynton Kelly, after his landmark Gil Evans period, and even after his attempts at creating a new band with everyone from Frank Strozier and Harold Mabern to Sonny Rollins and J.J. Johnson.

Miles Davis Quintet - Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1 (2011) {3CD + Bonus DVD5 NTSC}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 782 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 474 Mb
DVD5 -> 3.86 Gb | All Regions | NTSC 4:3 | LinearPCM, 2 ch | ~ 65 min | ISO Image
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 305 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1967, 2011 Columbia / Legacy / Sony Music | 88697 94053 2
Jazz / Hard Bop / Post Bop / Modal Music / Trumpet

The explosive transformation of Miles Davis’ “second great Quintet” with Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and Tony Williams (drums) is laid bare on this release. Culled from original state-owned television and radio sources in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, and Sweden, the program spans five northern European festival performances over the course of nine days in October-November 1967. The audio shows consist entirely of previously unreleased or previously only bootlegged material. This is a 3-CD + DVD package, with an 8-panel digipak with 28-page booklet.