Miles Davis - Miles Davis at Plugged Nickel, Chicago Vol. 2 (1981 Japanese CBS/Sony Stereo LP)

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Miles Davis - Miles Davis at Plugged Nickel, Chicago Vol. 2 | Vinyl LP - 1981 Japanese CBS/Sony Stereo Reissue (18AP 2068, Miles 25 No. 18, CBS/Sony Inc.)

The Plugged Nickel was a small nightclub on North Wells Street in Chicago. Over two nights in December 1965 the Davis Quintet played seven sets, all of which were recorded. CBS/Sony released selections from the material as two separate Japanese LPs in 1976; Vol. 1 drew from December 22, Vol. 2 from December 23. Columbia issued a worldwide double LP combining both volumes in 1982. The complete seven-set recording followed in 1992 (Japan) and 1995 (US).

Vol. 2 contains four pieces. "'Round Midnight" opens at under nine minutes. The Monk standard that had been the centrepiece of Davis's Columbia debut nearly a decade earlier is played here as if the melody is something to move through rather than arrive at. "Stella by Starlight" runs thirteen minutes, Shorter's solo in particular stretching the harmony far past Victor Young's original chord structure. "All Blues," Davis's own composition from Kind of Blue (1959), is played at a different tempo from the studio version and treated with the same freedom as the standards.

"Yesterdays/The Theme" fills all of Side B at twenty minutes. Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach's 1933 ballad opens it; the quintet improvises outward from there, moving through tempo changes and dynamic shifts before closing with Davis's "The Theme," the signal that the set is over. Williams, who was twenty years old, drives the performance throughout.

This is the 1981 Japanese CBS/Sony stereo reissue (18AP 2068), Miles 25 series No. 18, manufactured by CBS/Sony Inc. With cap obi and original shrink wrap.