| John McLaughlin discography | |
|---|---|
 McLaughlin performing in France, 2016 | |
| Studio albums | 18 |
| Live albums | 8 |
| Compilation albums | 1 |
| Collaborative albums | 4 |
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.
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] | US Jazz [1] | US Top Jazz [1] | AUS [6] | GER [7] | NZL [8] | SWE [9] | JPN [10] [11] | |||||||
| Extrapolation |
| 152 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Devotion |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| My Goal's Beyond |
| 194 | — | 34 | 38 | 48 | — | — | — | |||||
| Electric Guitarist |
| 105 | 6 | — | 73 | — | 38 | 40 | — | |||||
| Electric Dreams |
| 147 | 14 | — | 75 | — | 27 | — | — | |||||
| Belo Horizonte |
| 172 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Music Spoken Here |
| — | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Que Alegria |
| — | — | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Time Remembered: John McLaughlin Plays Bill Evans |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| After the Rain |
| — | — | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| The Promise |
| — | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | 92 | |||||
| The Heart of Things |
| — | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Thieves and Poets |
| — | — | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Industrial Zen |
| — | — | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Floating Point |
| — | — | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| To the One with The 4th Dimension |
| — | 27 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Now Here This with The 4th Dimension |
| — | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Black Light with The 4th Dimension |
| — | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Liberation Time |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certification | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] | US Jazz [1] | US Top Jazz [1] | AUS [6] | GER [7] | AUT [19] | FRA [20] | NOR [21] | UK [22] | |||||||
| Where Fortune Smiles with John Surman, Dave Holland, Karl Berger, and Stu Martin |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Love Devotion Surrender with Carlos Santana |
| 14 | — | — | 10 | 26 | 12 | — | 19 | 7 |
| ||||
| Passion, Grace and Fire with Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucía |
| 171 | 9 | 23 | — | 35 | — | — | — | — | |||||
| The Guitar Trio with Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucía | — | — | 1 | — | 55 | 27 | 21 | — | — | ||||||
| Paco and John Live at Montreux 1987 with Paco de Lucía |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Is That So? with Shankar Mahadevan and Zakir Hussain |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] | US Jazz [1] | US Top Jazz [1] | US Cont Jazz [1] | GER [7] | NLD [29] | AUT [19] | NZL [8] | FRA [20] | JPN [10] | |||||
| Friday Night in San Francisco with Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucía |
| 97 | 6 | — | — | 22 | 66 | 5 | 48 | 154 | — | |||
| Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra "The Mediterranean" – Duos for Guitar & Piano with London Symphony Orchestra and Katia Labeque |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Live at the Royal Festival Hall |
| — | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Tokyo Live |
| — | — | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| The Heart of Things: Live in Paris |
| — | — | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Montreux Concerts [34] |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Official Pirate: The Best of the American Tour 2007 with The 4th Dimension |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Five Peace Band Live with Chick Corea |
| — | 4 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | 168 | 118 | |||
| The Boston Record with The 4th Dimension |
| — | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Paco and John Live at Montreux 1987 with Paco de Lucía |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Live at Ronnie Scott's with The 4th Dimension |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Live in San Francisco with The 4th Dimension |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
| Album | Year | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twice as Much – Own Up | 1966 | guitar | [40] |
| Gordon Beck – Experiments with Pops | 1968 | guitar | [41] |
| Miles Davis – In a Silent Way | 1969 | electric guitar | [42] |
| The Tony Williams Lifetime – Emergency! | guitar | [43] | |
| Wayne Shorter – Super Nova | "Supernova", "Swee-Pea", "Water Babies" and "Capricorn" | [44] | |
| Sandy Brown and His Gentleman Friends – Hair at Its Hairiest | guitar | [45] | |
| Miroslav Vitous – Infinite Search | guitar | [46] | |
| Miles Davis – Bitches Brew | 1970 | electric guitar | [47] |
| Jack Bruce – Things We Like | guitar | [48] | |
| The Tony Williams Lifetime – Turn It Over | guitar | [49] | |
| Miroslav Vitous – Purple | guitar | [50] | |
| Joe Farrell – Follow Your Heart | guitar | [51] | |
| Duffy Power – Innovations | guitar | [52] | |
| Graham Bond – Solid Bond | guitar, live with the Graham Bond Quartet, 1963; "Ho Ho Country Kicking Blues", The Grass Is Greener", "Doxy" | [53] | |
| Larry Coryell – Spaces | guitar | [54] | |
| Miles Davis – A Tribute to Jack Johnson | 1971 | electric guitar | [55] |
| Miles Davis – Live-Evil | electric guitar | [56] | |
| Carla Bley and Paul Haines – Escalator Over the Hill | guitar | [57] | |
| James Taylor – One Man Dog | 1972 | guitar | [58] |
| Miles Davis – On the Corner | electric guitar on "On the Corner; New York Girl; Thinkin' One Thing and Doin' Another; Vote for Miles" | [59] | |
| Santana – Welcome | 1973 | guitar on "Flame – Sky" | [60] |
| Wayne Shorter – Moto Grosso Feio | 1974 | 12 string guitar | [61] |
| Miles Davis – Big Fun | guitar on "Great Expectations/Orange Lady", "Recollections", "Go Ahead John", "The Little Blue Frog" and "Yaphet" | [62] | |
| Miles Davis – Get Up with It | guitar on "Honky Tonk" | [63] | |
| Stanley Clarke – Journey to Love | 1975 | guitar | [64] |
| Larry Coryell – Planet End | guitar | [65] | |
| Stanley Clarke – School Days | 1976 | acoustic guitar on "Desert Song" | [66] |
| Miles Davis – Circle in the Round | 1979 | guitar on "Guinnevere" | [67] |
| Miles Davis – Directions | 1980 | guitar | [68] |
| Paco de Lucía – Castro Marín | 1981 | guitar | [69] |
| Miles Davis – You're Under Arrest | 1985 | guitar on "Ms. Morrisine", "Katia Prelude" and "Katia" | [70] |
| Bill Evans – The Alternative Man | guitar | [71] | |
| Herbie Hancock – Round Midnight (Soundtrack) | 1986 | guitar on "Body and Soul" and "Bérangère's Nightmare" | [72] |
| Dexter Gordon – The Other Side of Round Midnight | guitar | [73] | |
| Katia and Marielle Labeque – Gladrags | producer | [74] | |
| Zakir Hussain with Jan Garbarek and Hariprasad Chaurasia – Making Music | acoustic guitar | [75] | |
| Miles Davis – Aura | 1989 | guitar | [76] |
| Katia and Marielle Labeque – Love of Colours | 1990 | piano, programming, producer | [77] |
| Carlos Santana and Bill Laswell - Divine Light: Reconstructions & Mix Translation | 2001 | guitar, piano | [78] |
| Leni Stern – Finally the Rain Has Come | 2002 | guitar | [79] |
| Ithamara Koorax – Someday | guitar | [80] | |
| Miroslav Vitous – Universal Syncopations | 2003 | guitar | [81] |
| Miles Davis – The Cellar Door Sessions | 2005 | electric guitar | [82] |
| Santana – Hymns for Peace: Live at Montreux 2004 | 2007 | guitar | [83] |
| Hadrien Feraud – Hadrian Feraud | composer | [84] | |
| Gary Husband – Dirty & Beautiful (Volume 1) | 2010 | guitar on "Dreams in Blue" |
John McLaughlin, also known as Mahavishnu, is an English guitarist, bandleader, and composer. A pioneer of jazz fusion, his music combines elements of jazz with rock, world music, Western classical music, flamenco, and blues. After contributing to several key British groups of the early 1960s, McLaughlin made Extrapolation, his first album as a bandleader, in 1969. He then moved to the U.S., where he played with drummer Tony Williams's group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his electric jazz fusion albums In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, Live-Evil, and On the Corner. His 1970s electric band, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, performed a technically virtuosic and complex style of music that fused electric jazz and rock with Indian influences.
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 a Berklee-educated, Grammy Award winning Italian American guitarist known for his work in jazz fusion and world music. His breakthrough came through joining Chick Corea's Return to Forever group in 1974. He launched, from 1976 afterwards, a successful and critically acclaimed solo career, noted for his technical mastery, complex compositions and explorations of latin music. Some highlights of his work are Elegant Gypsy, his Friday Night in San Francisco collaboration and the World Sinfonia trilogy.
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".
Larry Coryell was an American jazz guitarist, widely considered the "godfather of fusion". Alongside Gábor Szabó, he was a pioneer in melding jazz, country and rock music. Coryell was also a music teacher and a writer, penning a monthly column for Guitar Player magazine from 1977 to 1989. He made a number of collaborations with other high-profile musicians, a list that included John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitouš, Billy Cobham, Lenny White, Al Di Meola, Paco de Lucía and others.
Elegant Gypsy is the second album by American jazz fusion guitarist Al Di Meola. It was released in 1977 by Columbia Records.
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.
"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.
Electric Dreams is the fifth solo album by English jazz guitarist John McLaughlin and his "One Truth Band" released in 1979. Between his third and fourth solo albums he spent several years leading the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Shakti.
Belo Horizonte is an album by English guitarist John McLaughlin, released in 1981 through Warner Music Group. The album reached number 172 on the Billboard 200 and number 11 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart.
Leverkusener Jazztage is a jazz festival in Germany, held annually in October since 1980. It was established to celebrate the Leverkusen's birthday, and has become a festival with over 20,000 annual visitors.
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.
Live in San Francisco is a live album by guitarists John McLaughlin and Jimmy Herring. It was recorded at The Warfield in San Francisco, California, on December 8, 2017, and was released in 2018 by Abstract Logix. The musicians are joined by an ensemble that combines McLaughlin's band the 4th Dimension with Herring's band the Invisible Whip.
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.