The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965

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The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965
Live album by Miles Davis

Publication
(s)

1995

Label (s) Columbia Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

jazz

occupation

production

Teo Macero

chronology
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The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 is a jazz album by Miles Davis . It was recorded at several concerts at the Plugged Nickel jazz club in Chicago on December 22nd and 23rd, 1965. The recordings were released in full under this title by Columbia Records in 1995.

Prehistory of the album

In September Miles Davis - after the departure of George Coleman - formed his classic "second Miles Davis Quintet" with the entry of Wayne Shorter. After an appearance at the Berlin Jazz Days in 1964 (recorded on the album "Miles in Berlin"), the new band recorded a studio album with their own compositions in January 1965 (" ESP "). In December a two-week guest performance at the Chicago jazz club "Plugged Nickel" followed.

The music

"Anyone who knew the new Davis quintet from their studio record alone could hardly get a picture of the group's concert reality." The "recorded in an irresistible club atmosphere" recordings from the Plugged Nickel form the climax of a series of live recordings, that have been made since 1963 (like Miles Davis in Europe or My Funny Valentine ). Richard Cook and Brian Morton call the recordings a monumental document (...) whose five often differing dialects have defined most of what is referred to as "post bop". (...) Tempo, and harmonies, melody and dynamics are radically reconsidered. The improvisations of the recordings would have been unthinkable a few years earlier. Each topic is only briefly alluded to, then "transformed into a ballad mood or into a hectic hunt at will ," says Davis biographer Peter Wießmüller. “Such a process can be followed in another version of So What , which is thematically only indicated as a musical abbreviation, even faster than in the Berlin Philharmonic, and in" All Blues ", in which Shorter's talent for free design is shown to advantage comes. As a soloist, Davis gives his man in top form on the tenor sax a lot of space. In the course of his solos, Shorter often completely frees himself from any metrical structure, but without ever losing the thread to the overall musical context. "

In his autobiography, Herbie Hancock describes that on the way to the concert with Tony Williams he had decided that everyone in the band should play exactly the opposite of what they would have played otherwise: soft notes where they usually played loud; Cymbals instead of bass drum etc. At this point in time they had been performing together for over a year and were looking for new challenges in their playing. Shorter and Carter were also inaugurated shortly before the start of the concert, but Davis knew nothing about it. It wasn't until they arrived that they realized their sets would be recorded.

Discographic Notes

In 1982 a selection of eight titles from the live recordings from the "Plugged Nickel" appeared under the title "Miles Davis - Live at the Plugged Nickel" (Columbia C2 38266) or in Japan under the title "Miles Davis at Plugged Nickel, Chicago "(Sony 25 AP 1/291). Another selection followed in 1987 with the album "Cookin 'at the Plugged Nickel" (Columbia CBS 460607 1). In 1995 Michael Cuscuna made sure that the seven recorded concert sets were published in an album comprising 8 CDs; it is entitled "The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965" (Columbia CXK 66955). A selection in the form of a single CD is entitled "Highlights from the Plugged Nickel" (Columbia CK67377). The cover photography is by Lee Tanner .

The titles

December 22, 1965, set 1

  1. If I Were a Bell (F. Loesser)
  2. Stella by Starlight (N. Washington-V. Young)
  3. Walkin '(R. Carpenter)
  4. I Fall in Love Too Easily ( Sammy Cahn - Jule Styne )
  5. The Theme (M. Davis)

December 22, 1965, Set 2 (2 CDs)

  1. My Funny Valentine (R. Rodgers-L. Hart)
  2. Four (M. Davis)
  3. When I Fall in Love (E. Heyman-V. Young)
  4. Agitation (M. Davis)
  5. 'Round Midnight ( B. Hanighen - C. Williams-T. Monk)
  6. Milestones (M. Davis)
  7. The Theme (M. Davis)

December 22, 1965, set 3

  1. All of You (C. Porter)
  2. Oleo (S. Rollins)
  3. I Fall in Love Too Easily (S. Cahn-J. Styne)
  4. No Blues (M. Davis)
  5. I Thought about You (J. Mercer-J. Van Heusen)
  6. The Theme (M. Davis)

December 23, 1965, set 1

  1. If I Were a Bell (F. Loesser)
  2. Stella by Starlight (N. Washington-V. Young)
  3. Walkin '(R. Carpenter)
  4. I Fall in Love Too Easily (S. Cahn-J. Styne)
  5. The Theme (M. Davis)

December 23, 1965, set 2

  1. All of You (C. Porter)
  2. Agitation (M. Davis)
  3. My Funny Valentine (R. Rodgers-L. Hart)
  4. On Green Dolphin Street (N. Washington-B. Kaper)
  5. So What (M. Davis)
  6. The Theme (M. Davis)

December 23, 1965, set 3

  1. When I Fall in Love (E. Heyman-V. Young)
  2. Milestones (M. Davis)
  3. Autumn Leaves (J. Prevert-J. Mercer-J. Kosma)
  4. I Fall in Love Too Easily (S. Cahn-J. Styne)
  5. No Blues (M. Davis)
  6. The Theme (M. Davis)

December 23, 1965, set 4

  1. Stella by Starlight (N. Washington-V. Young)
  2. All Blues (M. Davis)
  3. Yesterdays (J. Kern-O. Harbach)
  4. The Theme (M. Davis)

Literature / sources

  • Ian Carr : Miles Davis - The Definitive Biography . HarperCollins, 2nd Revised edition, 1998. ISBN 978-0002552226
  • Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
  • Miles Davis: The Autobiography . Munich, Heyne, 2000
  • Erik Nisenson: Round About Midnight - A Portrait of Miles Davis . Vienna, Hannibal, 1985
  • Peter Wießmüller: Miles Davis - his life, his music, his records . Gauting, Oreos (Collection Jazz), 1985
  • Peter Niklas Wilson : Miles Davis - His life, his music, his records . Waaskirchen, Oreos (Collection Jazz), 2001

Remarks

  1. ↑ Miles Davis wanted Shorter in his band as early as 1960 - after John Coltrane left. After getting Colemans Shorter, however, had contractual obligations with the Jazz Messengers of Art Blakey board as musical director and was able only in September 1964 in the band; see. Miles Davis, p. 364 ff.
  2. ↑ "Miles in Berlin" is not the first time that Davis and Shorter have recorded together. In August 1962, the saxophonist was a member of a short-lived ensemble around singer Bob Dorough , which also included trombonist Frank Rehak . During this session the tracks "Devil My Care" (released on the compilation "Basic Miles") and "Nothin 'Like You" (released on the album "Sorcerer" from 1967) were created.
  3. ↑ Peter Niklas Wilson The Miles Davis Record Works . Oreos, Collection Jazz 2001
  4. ↑ cit. after Wießmüller, p. 142
  5. ↑ cf. Cook & Morton, p. 378
  6. ↑ p. 143 f.
  7. ^ Herbie Hancock, Lisa Dickey: Possibilities . Viking, 2014, ISBN 978-0-670-01471-2 , pp. 92-93 .