| Al Di Meola discography | |
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| Studio albums | 26 |
| Live albums | 7 |
| Compilation albums | 7 |
| Singles | 9 |
| As featured artist | 1 |
| Collaboration albums | 8 |
This is a discography of Al Di Meola, an American jazz, jazz fusion, Latin jazz, world music, and world fusion guitarist, composer, and record producer of Italian origin.
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||||
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| US [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] | US Jazz [1] | US Cont Jazz [1] | SWE [6] | NLD [7] | NZL [8] | GER [9] | ||||||||
| Land of the Midnight Sun |
| 129 | 13 | — | — | 20 | — | — | ||||||
| Elegant Gypsy |
| 58 | 5 | — | 40 | — | 35 | — | ||||||
| Casino |
| 52 | 5 | — | 37 | — | — | — | ||||||
| Splendido Hotel |
| 119 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Electric Rendezvous |
| 55 | 3 | — | 26 | — | 47 | 57 | ||||||
| Scenario |
| 128 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Cielo e Terra |
| — | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Soaring Through a Dream |
| — | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Tirami Su |
| 190 | — | 14 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| World Sinfonia |
| — | — | 10 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Kiss My Axe |
| — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| World Sinfonia II – Heart of the Immigrants |
| — | — | 15 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Orange and Blue |
| — | — | 17 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Di Meola Plays Piazzolla |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| The Infinite Desire |
| — | — | 17 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Winter Nights |
| — | — | 15 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| World Sinfonía III - The Grande Passion |
| — | — | 24 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Flesh on Flesh |
| — | — | 25 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Consequence of Chaos |
| — | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Vocal Rendezvous |
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| Diabolic Inventions and Seduction For Solo Guitar |
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| Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody |
| — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| All Your Life (A Tribute to the Beatles) |
| — | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Elysium |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Opus |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | 80 | ||||||
| Across the Universe |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | 36 | ||||||
| Twentyfour [12] |
| TBA | ||||||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
| Title | Album details |
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| Where Have I Known You Before |
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| No Mystery |
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| Romantic Warrior |
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| Returns |
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| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||
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| US [1] | US Jazz [1] | US Cont Jazz [1] | GER [9] | NLD [7] | AUT [13] | NZL [8] | FRA [14] | |||||||
| Friday Night in San Francisco Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin, and Al Di Meola) |
| 97 | 6 | — | 22 | 66 | 5 | 48 | 154 | |||||
| Passion, Grace and Fire (Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin, and Al Di Meola) |
| 171 | 9 | — | 35 | — | — | — | — | |||||
| The Rite of Strings (Stanley Clarke, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Di Meola) |
| — | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| The Guitar Trio (Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin, and Al Di Meola) |
| — | 1 | — | 55 | — | 27 | — | 21 | |||||
| Cosmopolitan Life (Leonid Agutin and Al Di Meola) |
| — | — | — | 57 | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Midsummer Night in Sardinia Andrea Parodi and Al Di Meola) |
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| The NYC Session: Beautiful Love (Eddie Gómez, Billy Drummond, Yutaka Kobayashi, and Al Di Meola) |
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| He & Carmen (Eszter Horgas and Al Di Meola) |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||
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| US [1] | US Jazz [1] | |||||||||||||
| Tour De Force – Live |
| 165 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Live in London |
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| Melodia Live in Milano |
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| World Sinfonia: Live from Seattle and Elsewhere |
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| Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival |
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| Morocco Fantasia |
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| Elegant Gypsy & More |
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| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
| Title | Details |
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| This Is Jazz |
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| The Essence of Al Di Meola |
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| Greatest Hits |
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| The Best of Al Di Meola: The Manhattan Years |
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| Anthology |
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| Al Di Meola Collection |
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| Elysium |
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| Title | Video details |
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| The Super Guitar Trio and Friends (with Larry Coryell and Bireli Lagrene) |
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| Live at Montreux 1986/1993 |
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| Live at Montreux 1994 (with Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke) |
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| One of These Nights (with Ernie Adams, Gumbi Ortiz, Mario Parmisano, and Sturcz String Quartet) |
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| Speak a Volcano: Return to Electric Guitar |
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| Super Guitar Trio: Live at Montreux /1989 (with Larry Coryell and Bireli Lagrene) |
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| Cosmopolitan Live (with Leonid Agutin) |
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| Return to Forever: Returns – Live at Montreux (with Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea and Lenny White) |
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| Live in Tokyo (with The Sturcz String Quartet) |
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| Live at North Sea Jazz Festival |
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| One Night in Montreal |
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| Carmen |
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| Morocco Fantasia |
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| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "Milonga Noctiva" (featuring Kemuel Roig) | 2017 | Opus |
| "Broken Heart" | 2018 | |
| "Ava's Dream Sequence Lullaby" | ||
| "Strawberry Fields Forever" | 2020 | Across the Universe |
| "One Sky" | Non-album single | |
| "Magic Song (Carol of the Bells / Shchedryk)" (Leonid Agutin, Amaury Gutiérrez, and Al Di Meola featuring Ed Cale, Angelica Varum, and Zhangjiajie Philharmonic Orchestra) | 2021 | |
| "Chelsea Hotel No. 2 (Sliverpark with Al Di Meola) | 2022 | Endless Sleep |
| "Fandango" | 2024 | Twentyfour |
| "For Only You" | ||
| "Ava's Dance in the Moonlight" |
| Title | Year | Album |
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| "The Cruelest Goodbye" (Outlanders featuring Al Di Meola) | 2022 | Non-album single |
| Year | Notes | Album | Ref |
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| 1975 | electric guitar in "Prince of the Sea" | Venusian Summer - Lenny White | |
| 1976 | guitar solo in "Man of Leo", "Stellar", "Carnival", "Ghost Machine" and "Time is Here" | Go - Stomu Yamashta, Steve Winwood and Michael Shrieve | |
| guitar | Go Live from Paris - Stomu Yamashta's Go | ||
| 1977 | guitar | Go Too - Stomu Yamashta's Go | [21] |
| 1982 | guitar in "Compadres" | Touchstone - Chick Corea | |
| 1984 | guitar in "Allergies" | Hearts and Bones - Paul Simon | |
| 1988 | acoustic guitar in "The Way In", and "Sledgehammer" | The Way In - Jeff Richman | |
| guitar | Latin - George Dalaras | [22] | |
| 1993 | guitar | Jazzpana - Vince Mendoza and Arif Mardin | [23] |
| 1995 | guitar | David Broza - David Broza | [24] |
| acoustic guitar | Dance of Fire - Aziza Mustafa Zadeh | ||
| producer | Magic Touch - Stanley Jordan | [25] | |
| 1996 | guitar in "El Ciego" | The Promise - John McLaughlin | [26] |
| guitar in "Mediterranean Sundance" | Pavarotti & Friends For War Child - Luciano Pavarotti | [27] | |
| 1997 | guitar | People in Room No 8 - Leslie Mándoki | [28] |
| 1999 | guitar | Crossing the Bridge - Eileen Ivers | [29] |
| 2000 | acoustic guitar | Inspiration – Colors & Reflections - Aziza Mustafa Zadeh | |
| 2001 | guitar in "Beyond the Mirage, for 2 guitars", "Azzurra, for 2 guitars" and "The Grand Passion, for 2 guitars" | Nylon & Steel - Manuel Barrueco | [30] |
| acoustic guitar | The Running Roads - George Dalaras | [31] | |
| 2002 | guitar in "Torbellino (Whirlwind)" | Camino Latino - Liona Boyd | [32] |
| guitar | Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - No Mercy | ||
| guitar | Soulmates - Leslie Mándoki | ||
| 2003 | acoustic guitar in "The Sons of Anu" and "Gypsy Moth" | Black Utopia - Derek Sherinian | [33] |
| guitar in "Sinej Reki Voda" | Deja Vu - Leonid Agutin | [34] |
The Mahavishnu Orchestra was a jazz fusion band formed in New York City in 1971, led by English guitarist John McLaughlin. The group underwent several line-up changes throughout its history across its two periods of activity, from 1971 to 1976 and from 1984 to 1987. With its first line-up consisting of musicians Billy Cobham, Jan Hammer, Jerry Goodman, and Rick Laird, the band received its initial acclaim for its complex, intense music consisting of a blend of Indian classical music, jazz, and psychedelic rock as well as its dynamic live performances between 1971 and 1973. Many members of the band have gone on to acclaimed careers of their own in the jazz and jazz fusion genres.
Albert Laurence Di Meola is an American guitarist. Known for his works in jazz fusion and world music, he began his career as guitarist with the group Return to Forever in 1974. From 1976 to 1978 he played with Stomu Yamashta in the supergroup Go on three records. The 1970s and 1980s saw albums such as Land of the Midnight Sun, Elegant Gypsy, Casino and Friday Night in San Francisco earn him both critical and commercial success.
Francisco Sánchez Gómez, known as Paco de Lucía, was a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer, and record producer. A leading proponent of the new flamenco style, he was one of the first flamenco guitarists to branch into classical and jazz. Richard Chapman and Eric Clapton, authors of Guitar: Music, History, Players, describe de Lucía as a "titanic figure in the world of flamenco guitar", and Dennis Koster, author of Guitar Atlas, Flamenco, has referred to de Lucía as "one of history's greatest guitarists".
Elegant Gypsy is the second album by American jazz fusion guitarist Al Di Meola. It was released in 1977 by Columbia Records.
"The Pink Panther Theme" is a jazz composition by Henry Mancini written as the theme for the 1963 film The Pink Panther and subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 37th Academy Awards but lost to the Sherman Brothers for Mary Poppins. The eponymous cartoon character created for the film's opening credits by David DePatie and Friz Freleng was animated in time to the tune. The tenor saxophone solo was played by Plas Johnson.
Friday Night in San Francisco is a 1981 live album by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía. It was described by jazz author and critic Walter Kolosky as "a musical event that could be compared to the Benny Goodman Band's performance at Carnegie Hall in 1938 … [it] may be considered the most influential of all live acoustic guitar albums".
Passion, Grace & Fire is the second album by John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucía released in 1983. Unlike their first album Friday Night in San Francisco, this album consists entirely of studio recordings.
The Guitar Trio is a reunion album by Al Di Meola, Paco de Lucía and John McLaughlin, released in 1996 after 13 years without playing together. This 1996 effort has three originals apiece from McLaughlin and Di Meola, two by de Lucía and a McLaughlin-Di Meola duet on "Manhã de Carnaval".
Electric Rendezvous is the fifth studio album by jazz guitarist Al Di Meola that was released in 1982. It features flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía on “Passion, Grace & Fire”.
"Mediterranean Sundance" is the third track on Elegant Gypsy (1977), the second album by Al Di Meola. This piece and "Lady Of Rome, Sister Of Brazil", are the only two entirely acoustic tracks on the album. However, unlike "Lady Of Rome, Sister Of Brazil" which is an acoustic solo by Di Meola, "Mediterranean Sundance" consists of an acoustic guitar duet with flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía. With a duration of 5' 13", the song is a complex blend of jazz and flamenco influences.
Go is the first album by the rock music supergroup Go. Recorded at Island Studios in London in February 1976, it was released on Island Records in April of the same year.
Go Live from Paris is the second album by Go, recorded live in Paris at the Palais des Sports on 12 June 1976.
Go Too (1977) is Go's third album. Go was founded by Stomu Yamashta, Steve Winwood and Michael Shrieve. For this album, Jess Roden replaced Steve Winwood. The style of the music became modified accordingly. In addition, Linda Lewis was hired as a singer. Together with Paul Jackson, Jr. and the orchestra of Martyn Ford the album unified various soundscapes.
The following is a John McLaughlin discography, grouped by albums released under his name, the Miles Davis albums which he played on, albums from his group Mahavishnu Orchestra, his group Shakti, and albums where he is a session player on other artists' releases.
Orange and Blue is an album by jazz guitarist Al Di Meola that was released in 1994.
"Río Ancho" is a Spanish flamenco guitar piece that combines flamenco and gypsy jazz influences. The piece is in the key of E minor and progresses to A minor, D, G, C and B7. The original performances of the song had notable flute solos towards the end of the piece, reminiscent of classic Spanish gypsy music with trumpets. The track first featured on Paco de Lucia's 1976 album Almoraima.
Touchstone is an album by Chick Corea, released in 1982 through Warner Bros. Records. The album peaked at number nine on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart.
The following is the discography of Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía.
The Promise is an album by the English musician John McLaughlin, released in 1995 on Verve Records. It peaked at number 4 in the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.
Saturday Night in San Francisco is a 2022 live album released as a follow-up to the 1981 live album Friday Night in San Francisco by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, and Paco de Lucía. The album consists of seven previously unreleased recordings that were thought to be lost. The album was recorded on Saturday, December 6, 1980, at Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, the night after Friday Night in San Francisco was recorded.