Al Di Meola discography

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This is a comprehensive 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, digital download[10]
 129 13 — — 20 — —
Elegant Gypsy
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: LP, CD, 8T, digital download[11]
 58 5 — 40 — 35 —
Casino
  • Released: 25 February 1978
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: LP, CD, digital download[13]
 52 5 — 37 — — —
Splendido Hotel
  • Released: 10 May 1980
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: LP, CD, digital download[14]
 119 8 — — — — —
Electric Rendezvous
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: LP, Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD, digital download[15]
 55 3 — 26 — 47 57
Scenario
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: LP, CD, digital download[16]
 128 8 — — — — —
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
 190 — 14 — — — —
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, digital download[17]
 — — — — — — —
The Infinite Desire
  • Released: 18 August 1998
  • Label: Telarc International Corporation
  • Formats: CD, digital download[18]
 — — 17 — — — —
Winter Nights
  • Released: 1 September 1999
  • Label: Telarc International Corporation
  • Formats: CD, digital download[19]
 — — 15 — — — —
World Sinfonía III - The Grande Passion
  • Released: 24 October 2000
  • Label: Telarc International Corporation
  • Formats: CD, digital download[20]
 — — 24 — — — —
Flesh on Flesh
  • Released: 27 August 2002
  • Label: Telarc International Corporation
  • Formats: CD, digital download[21]
 — — 25 — — — —
Consequence of Chaos
  • Released: 26 September 2006
  • Label: Telarc International Corp.
  • Formats: CD, digital download[22]
 — 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, digital download[23]
 — — — — — — —
Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody
  • Released: 15 March 2011
  • Label: Concord Records
  • Formats: CD, digital download[24]
 — 4 — — — — —
All Your Life (A Tribute to the Beatles)
  • Released: 10 September 2013
  • Label: Valiana/Songsurfer
  • Formats: CD, digital download[25]
 — 16 — — — — —
Elysium
  • Released: 22 May 2015
  • Label: in-akusitik
  • Formats: CD
 — — — — — — —
"—" 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
[26]		 NZL
[8]		 FRA
[27]
Friday Night in San Francisco with Paco de Lucía and John McLaughlin
  • Released: 10 August 1981
  • Label: Philips
  • Formats: LP, CD, CS, digital download[28]
 97 6 — 22 66 5 48 154
Passion, Grace and Fire Paco de Lucía and John McLaughlin
  • Released: 23 March 1983
  • Label: Philips
  • Formats: LP, CD, SACD, CS, digital download[29]
 171 9 — 35 — — — —
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, digital download[30]
 — 1 — 55 — 27 — 21
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[31]
  • Label: ZYX Music
  • Formats: CD
 — — — — — — — —
The NYC Session: Beautiful Love with Eddie Gómez,
Billy Drummond and Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Released: 1 April 2008[32]
  • Label: Isol Discus
  • Formats: CD, digital download[33]
 — — — — — — — —
He & Carmen with Eszter Horgas
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Galaxy Music Ltd./Danubius Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download[34]
 — — — — — — — —
"—" 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, digital download[35]
 165 8
Live in London
  • Released: 16 May 2007
  • Label: Di Meola Productions
  • Formats: CD, digital download[36]
 — —
Melodia Live in Milano
  • Released: 20 March 2008
  • Label: Valiana
  • Formats: CD, digital download[37]
 — —
World Sinfonia: Live From Seattle And Else Where
  • Released: 2009
  • Label: Valiana
  • Formats: CD
 — —
Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival
  • Released: 10 April 2012
  • Label: The Store For Music
  • 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 [38]
1975 band member No Mystery - Return to Forever [39]
electric guitar in "Prince Of The Sea" Venusian Summer - Lenny White [40]
1976 guitar solo in "Man Of Leo", "Stellar", "Carnival",
"Ghost Machine" and "Time Is Here"		 Go - Stomu Yamashta, Steve Winwood and Michael Shrieve [41]
band member Romantic Warrior - Return to Forever [42]
guitar Go Live from Paris - Stomu Yamashta's Go [43]
1977 guitar Go Too - Stomu Yamashta's Go [44]
1982 guitar in "Compadres" Touchstone - Chick Corea [45]
1984 guitar in "Allergies" Hearts and Bones - Paul Simon [46]
1988 acoustic guitar in "The Way In", and "Sledgehammer" The Way In - Jeff Richman [47]
guitar Latin - George Dalaras [48]
1993 guitar Jazzpana - Vince Mendoza and Arif Mardin [49]
1995 guitar David Broza - David Broza [50]
acoustic guitar Dance of Fire - Aziza Mustafa Zadeh [51]
producer Magic Touch - Stanley Jordan [52]
1996 guitar in "El Ciego" The Promise - John McLaughlin [53]
guitar in "Mediterranean Sundance" Pavarotti & Friends For War Child - Luciano Pavarotti [54]
1997 guitar People In Room No 8 - Leslie Mándoki [55]
1999 guitar Crossing The Bridge - Eileen Ivers [56]
2000 acoustic guitar Inspiration – Colors & Reflections - Aziza Mustafa Zadeh [57]
2001 guitar in "Beyond the Mirage, for 2 guitars",
"Azzurra, for 2 guitars" and "The Grand Passion, for 2 guitars"		 Nylon & Steel - Manuel Barrueco [58]
acoustic guitar The Running Roads - George Dalaras [59]
2002 guitar in "Torbellino (Whirlwind)" Camino Latino - Liona Boyd [60]
guitar Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - No Mercy [61]
guitar Soulmates - Leslie Mándoki [62]
2003 acoustic guitar in "The Sons of Anu" and "Gypsy Moth" Black Utopia - Derek Sherinian [63]
guitar in "Sinej Reki Voda" Deja Vu - Leonid Agutin [64]
2009 band member Returns - Return to Forever [65]

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[66]
  • Label: Montreux Sounds/Eagle Vision
  • Formats: DVD
Live At Montreux 1994 with Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke
  • Released: 3 May 2005[67]
  • 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[68]
  • 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[69]
  • 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
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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  2. ↑ "Passion, Grace & Fire - John McLaughlin,Al Di Meola,Paco de Lucía | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
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  4. ↑ "Friday Night in San Francisco - Al Di Meola,John McLaughlin,Paco de Lucía | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
  5. ↑ "Rite of Strings - Stanley Clarke | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
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  15. ↑ "iTunes - Music - Electric Rendezvous by Al Di Meola". iTunes.
  16. ↑ "iTunes - Music - Scenarío by Al Di Meola". iTunes.
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  20. ↑ "iTunes - Music - The Grande Passion by Al Di Meola". iTunes.
  21. ↑ "iTunes - Music - Flesh On Flesh by Al Di Meola". iTunes.
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