Al Di Meola, 2013

This is a discography of Al Di Meola, an American jazz fusion and Latin jazz guitarist, composer, and record producer of Italian origin.

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
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
  • Released: 25 October 1976
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
1291320
Elegant Gypsy
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: LP, CD, 8T, download
5854035
Casino
  • Released: 25 February 1978
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
52537
Splendido Hotel
  • Released: 10 May 1980
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
1198
Electric Rendezvous
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: LP, Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD, download
553264757
Scenario
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
1288
Cielo e Terra
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Manhattan
  • Formats: LP, CD
18
Soaring Through a Dream
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Manhattan
  • Formats: LP, CD
14
Tirami Su
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Manhattan
  • Formats: LP, CD
19014
World Sinfonia
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Tomato Records
  • Formats: LP, CD
10
Kiss My Axe
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Tomato Records
  • Formats: LP, CD
2
World Sinfonia II – Heart of the Immigrants
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Tomato Records
  • Formats: CD
15
Orange and Blue
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Tomato Records
  • Formats: CD
17
Di Meola Plays Piazzolla
  • Released: 5 November 1996
  • Label: Atlantic Records
  • Formats: CD, download
The Infinite Desire
  • Released: 18 August 1998
  • Label: Telarc International Corporation
  • Formats: CD, download
17
Winter Nights
  • Released: 1 September 1999
  • Label: Telarc International Corporation
  • Formats: CD, download
15
World Sinfonía III - The Grande Passion
  • Released: 24 October 2000
  • Label: Telarc International Corporation
  • Formats: CD, download
24
Flesh on Flesh
  • Released: 27 August 2002
  • Label: Telarc International Corporation
  • Formats: CD, download
25
Consequence of Chaos
  • Released: 26 September 2006
  • Label: Telarc International Corp.
  • Formats: CD, download
9
Vocal Rendezvous
  • Released: 19 May 2006
  • Label: SPV
  • Formats: CD
Diabolic Inventions and Seduction For Solo Guitar
  • Released: 8 January 2007
  • Label: Di Meola Productions
  • Formats: CD, download
Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody
  • Released: 15 March 2011
  • Label: Concord Records
  • Formats: CD, download
4
All Your Life (A Tribute to the Beatles)
  • Released: 10 September 2013
  • Label: Valiana/Songsurfer
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
16
Elysium
  • Released: 22 May 2015
  • Label: in-akusitik
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
Opus
  • Released: 23 February 2018
  • Label: earMUSIC
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
80
Across the Universe
  • Released: 13 March 2020
  • Label: earMUSIC
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
36
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Collaborative albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[1]
US Jazz
[1]
US Cont Jazz
[1]
GER
[9]
NLD
[7]
AUT
[11]
NZL
[8]
FRA
[12]
Friday Night in San Francisco with Paco de Lucía and John McLaughlin
  • Released: 10 August 1981
  • Label: Philips
  • Formats: LP, CD, CS, download
9762266548154
Passion, Grace and Fire Paco de Lucía and John McLaughlin
  • Released: 23 March 1983
  • Label: Philips
  • Formats: LP, CD, SACD, CS, download
171935
The Rite of Strings with Stanley Clarke and Jean-Luc Ponty
  • Released: 17 July 1995
  • Label: Gai Saber
  • Formats: CD
4
The Guitar Trio with Paco de Lucía and John McLaughlin
  • Released: 15 October 1996
  • Label: Verve Records
  • Formats: LP, CD, CS, download
1552721
Cosmopolitan Life with Leonid Agutin
  • Released: 23 May 2005
  • Label: Ole Records
  • Formats: CD
57
Midsummer Night in Sardinia with Andrea Parodi
  • Released: 16 February 2007[13]
  • Label: ZYX Music
  • Formats: CD
The NYC Session: Beautiful Love with Eddie Gómez,
Billy Drummond and Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Released: 1 April 2008[14]
  • Label: Isol Discus
  • Formats: CD, download
He & Carmen with Eszter Horgas
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Galaxy Music Ltd./Danubius Music
  • Formats: CD, download
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Live albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[1]
US Jazz
[1]
Tour De Force – Live
  • Released: 27 September 1982
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD, download
1658
Live in London
  • Released: 16 May 2007
  • Label: Di Meola Productions
  • Formats: CD, download
Melodia Live in Milano
  • Released: 20 March 2008
  • Label: Valiana
  • Formats: CD, download
World Sinfonia: Live from Seattle and Elsewhere
  • Released: 2009
  • Label: Valiana
  • Formats: CD
Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival
  • Released: 10 April 2012
  • Label: The Store For Music
  • Formats: CD
Morocco Fantasia
  • Released: 2017
  • Label: Inakustik
  • Formats: CD
Elegant Gypsy & More
  • Released: 2018
  • Label: Ear
  • Formats: CD
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Other appearances

Year Notes Album Ref
1974 band member Where Have I Known You Before - Return to Forever [15]
1975 band member No Mystery - Return to Forever [16]
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
band member Romantic Warrior - Return to Forever [17]
guitar Go Live from Paris - Stomu Yamashta's Go
1977 guitar Go Too - Stomu Yamashta's Go [18]
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 [19]
1993 guitar Jazzpana - Vince Mendoza and Arif Mardin [20]
1995 guitar David Broza - David Broza [21]
acoustic guitar Dance of Fire - Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
producer Magic Touch - Stanley Jordan [22]
1996 guitar in "El Ciego" The Promise - John McLaughlin [23]
guitar in "Mediterranean Sundance" Pavarotti & Friends For War Child - Luciano Pavarotti [24]
1997 guitar People in Room No 8 - Leslie Mándoki [25]
1999 guitar Crossing the Bridge - Eileen Ivers [26]
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 [27]
acoustic guitar The Running Roads - George Dalaras [28]
2002 guitar in "Torbellino (Whirlwind)" Camino Latino - Liona Boyd [29]
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 [30]
guitar in "Sinej Reki Voda" Deja Vu - Leonid Agutin [31]
2009 band member Returns - Return to Forever [32]

Video albums

Title Video details
The Super Guitar Trio and Friends with Larry Coryell and Bireli Lagrene
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Pioneer, TDK
  • Formats: Laserdisc, DVD
Live at Montreux 1986/1993
  • Released: 16 November 2004[33]
  • Label: Montreux Sounds/Eagle Vision
  • Formats: DVD
Live at Montreux 1994 with Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke
  • Released: 3 May 2005[34]
  • Label: Eagle Eye Media/Montreux Sounds
  • Formats: DVD
One of These Nights with Ernie Adams, Gumbi Ortiz, Mario Parmisano and Sturcz String Quartet
  • Released: 1 February 2005
  • Label: In-Akustik
  • Formats: DVD
Speak a Volcano: Return to Electric Guitar
  • Released: 30 October 2007[35]
  • Label: In-Akustik
  • Formats: DVD
Super Guitar Trio: Live at Montreux /1989 with Larry Coryell and Bireli Lagrene
  • Released: 7 August 2007
  • Label: Eagle Rock
  • Formats: DVD
Cosmopolitan Live with Leonid Agutin
  • Released: 4 March 2008[36]
  • Label: Ole Records
  • Formats: DVD
Return to Forever: Returns – Live at Montreux with Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea and Lenny White
  • Released: 12 May 2009
  • Label: Eagle Rock
  • Formats: DVD, Blu-ray
Live in Tokyo with The Sturcz Quartet
  • Released: 7 December 2010
  • Label: IMV
  • Formats: DVD
Live at North Sea Jazz Festival
  • Released: 19 October 2010
  • Label: The Store For Music
  • Formats: DVD
One Night in Montreal
  • Released: 18 May 2010
  • Label: Immortal Eur/Zoom
  • Formats: DVD
Carmen
  • Released: 13 June 2011
  • Label: The Store For Music
  • Formats: DVD
Morocco Fantasia
  • Released: 5 December 2011
  • Label: In-Akustik
  • Formats: DVD, Blu-ray

References

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  17. "Romantic Warrior - Return to Forever - Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic.
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  28. "The Running Roads - George Dalaras - Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  29. "Camino Latino (Latin Journey) - Liona Boyd - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  30. "Untitled Document". dereksherinian.com. Archived from the original on 2008-10-11.
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  34. Ken Dryden. "Live at Montreux 1994 [DVD] - Stanley Clarke, Al di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  35. Joe Viglione. "Speak a Volcano: Return to Electric Guitar - Al di Meola - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  36. "Cosmopolitan Live [DVD] - Leonid Agutin, Al di Meola - Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic.
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