Al Di Meola discography

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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.

Albums

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: October 25, 1976
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
129 13 20
Elegant Gypsy
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, CD, 8T, download
58 5 40 35
Casino
  • Released: February 25, 1978
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
52 5 37
Splendido Hotel
  • Released: May 10, 1980
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
119 8
Electric Rendezvous
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
55 3 26 47 57
Scenario
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
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
  • Formats: LP, CD
10
Kiss My Axe
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Tomato
  • Formats: LP, CD
2
World Sinfonia II – Heart of the Immigrants
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Tomato
  • Formats: CD
15
Orange and Blue
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Tomato
  • Formats: CD
17
Di Meola Plays Piazzolla
  • Released:November 5, 1996
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Formats: CD, download
The Infinite Desire
  • Released: August 18, 1998
  • Label: Telarc
  • Formats: CD, download
17
Winter Nights
  • Released: September 1, 1999
  • Label: Telarc
  • Formats: CD, download
15
World Sinfonía III - The Grande Passion
  • Released: October 24, 2000
  • Label: Telar
  • Formats: CD, download
24
Flesh on Flesh
  • Released: August 27, 2002
  • Label: Telarc
  • Formats: CD, download
25
Consequence of Chaos
  • Released: September 26, 2006
  • Label: Telarc
  • Formats: CD, download
9
Vocal Rendezvous
  • Released: May 19, 2006
  • Label: SPV
  • Formats: CD
Diabolic Inventions and Seduction For Solo Guitar
  • Released: January 8, 2007
  • Label: Di Meola Productions
  • Formats: CD, download
Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody
  • Released: March 15, 2011
  • Label: Concord
  • Formats: CD, download
4
All Your Life (A Tribute to the Beatles)
  • Released: September 10, 2013
  • Label: Valiana/Songsurfer
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
16
Elysium
  • Released: May 22, 2015
  • Label: in-akusitik
  • Formats: LP, CD, download, streaming
Opus
  • Released: February 23, 2018
  • Label: earMUSIC
  • Formats: LP, CD, download, streaming
80
Across the Universe
  • Released: March 13, 2020
  • Label: earMUSIC
  • Formats: LP, CD, download, streaming
36
Twentyfour[12]
  • Release: July 19, 2024
  • Label: earMUSIC
  • Format: LP, CD, download, streaming
TBA
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

with Return to Forever

Title Album details
Where Have I Known You Before
  • Released: 1974
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: Vinyl, CD
No Mystery
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: Vinyl, CD
Romantic Warrior
  • Released: 1976
  • Label: Columbia
  • Format: Vinyl, CD
Returns
  • Released: March 17, 2009
  • Label: Eagle
  • Format: CD, download

Collaborations

Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[1]
US Jazz
[1]
US Cont Jazz
[1]
GER
[9]
NLD
[7]
AUT
[13]
NZL
[8]
FRA
[14]
Friday Night in San Francisco
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  • Released: August 10, 1981
  • Label: Philips
  • Formats: LP, CD, CS, download
97 6 22 66 5 48 154
Passion, Grace and Fire
(Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin, and Al Di Meola)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Released: March 23, 1983
  • Label: Philips
  • Formats: LP, CD, SACD, CS, download
171 9 35
The Rite of Strings
(Stanley Clarke, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Di Meola)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Released: July 17, 1995
  • Label: Gai Saber
  • Formats: CD
4
The Guitar Trio
(Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin, and Al Di Meola)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Released: October 15, 1996
  • Label: Verve
  • Formats: LP, CD, CS, download
1 55 27 21
Cosmopolitan Life
(Leonid Agutin and Al Di Meola)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Released: May 23, 2005
  • Label: Ole Records
  • Formats: CD
57
Midsummer Night in Sardinia
Andrea Parodi and Al Di Meola)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Released: February 16, 2007[15]
  • Label: ZYX Music
  • Formats: CD
The NYC Session: Beautiful Love
(Eddie Gómez, Billy Drummond, Yutaka Kobayashi, and Al Di Meola)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Released: April 1, 2008[16]
  • Label: Isol Discus
  • Formats: CD, download
He & Carmen
(Eszter Horgas and Al Di Meola)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • 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: September 27, 1982
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: CD, download
165 8
Live in London
  • Released: May 16, 2007
  • Label: Di Meola Productions
  • Formats: CD, download
Melodia Live in Milano
  • Released: March 20, 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: April 10, 2012
  • Label: The Store For Music
  • Formats: CD
Morocco Fantasia
  • Released: 2017
  • Label: Inakustik
  • Formats: CD
Elegant Gypsy & More
  • Released: 2018
  • Label: earMUSIC
  • Formats: CD
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

Title Details
This Is Jazz
The Essence of Al Di Meola
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: Sony Music
  • Format: Vinyl, CD
Greatest Hits
  • Released: November 1, 1990
  • Label: Sony Music
  • Format: CD
The Best of Al Di Meola: The Manhattan Years
  • Released: January 1, 1992
  • Label: Blue Note
  • Format: CD
Anthology
  • Released: October 22, 2000
  • Label: Sony Music
  • Format: CD
Al Di Meola Collection
  • Released: January 1, 2014
  • Label: Concord
  • Format: CD, download
Elysium
  • Released: June 8, 2015
  • Label: Valiana Music and Media
  • Format: CD, download, streaming

Video albums

Title Video details
The Super Guitar Trio and Friends
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  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Pioneer, TDK
  • Formats: Laserdisc, DVD
Live at Montreux 1986/1993
  • Released: 16 November 2004[17]
  • Label: Montreux Sounds/Eagle Vision
  • Formats: DVD
Live at Montreux 1994
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  • Released: 3 May 2005[18]
  • Label: Eagle Eye Media/Montreux Sounds
  • Formats: DVD
One of These Nights
(with Ernie Adams, Gumbi Ortiz, Mario Parmisano, and Sturcz String Quartet)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Released: 1 February 2005
  • Label: In-Akustik
  • Formats: DVD
Speak a Volcano: Return to Electric Guitar
  • Released: 30 October 2007[19]
  • Label: In-Akustik
  • Formats: DVD
Super Guitar Trio: Live at Montreux /1989
(with Larry Coryell and Bireli Lagrene)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Released: 7 August 2007
  • Label: Eagle Rock
  • Formats: DVD
Cosmopolitan Live
(with Leonid Agutin)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Released: 4 March 2008[20]
  • Label: Ole Records
  • Formats: DVD
Return to Forever: Returns – Live at Montreux
(with Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea and Lenny White)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Released: 12 May 2009
  • Label: Eagle Rock
  • Formats: DVD, Blu-ray
Live in Tokyo
(with The Sturcz String Quartet)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • 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

Singles

As lead artist

Title Year Album
"Milonga Noctiva"
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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)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
2021
"Chelsea Hotel No. 2
(Sliverpark with Al Di Meola)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
2022 Endless Sleep
"Fandango" 2024 Twentyfour
"For Only You"
"Ava's Dance in the Moonlight"

As featured artist

Title Year Album
"The Cruelest Goodbye"
(Outlanders featuring Al Di Meola)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
2022 Non-album single

Other appearances

Year Notes Album Ref
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]

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External links

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