Al Di Meola discography

Al Di Meola discography
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.

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	—	RIAA: Gold[10]
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	—	—	—	—	BVMI: Gold[11]
Orange and Blue	Released: 1994 Label: Tomato Formats: CD	—	—	17	—	—	—	—	BVMI: Gold[11]
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	—	—	—	—	BVMI: Gold[11]
Winter Nights	Released: September 1, 1999 Label: Telarc Formats: CD, download	—	—	15	—	—	—	—	BVMI: Gold[11]
World Sinfonía III - The Grande Passion	Released: October 24, 2000 Label: Telar Formats: CD, download	—	—	24	—	—	—	—	BVMI: Gold[11]
Flesh on Flesh	Released: August 27, 2002 Label: Telarc Formats: CD, download	—	—	25	—	—	—	—	BVMI: Gold[11]
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	—	—	—	—	—	BVMI: Gold[11]
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 Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin, and Al Di Meola)	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)	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)	Released: July 17, 1995 Label: Gai Saber Formats: CD	—	—	4	—	—	—	—	—
The Guitar Trio (Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin, and Al Di Meola)	Released: October 15, 1996 Label: Verve Formats: LP, CD, CS, download	—	1	—	55	—	27	—	21
Cosmopolitan Life (Leonid Agutin and Al Di Meola)	Released: May 23, 2005 Label: Ole Records Formats: CD	—	—	—	57	—	—	—	—
Midsummer Night in Sardinia Andrea Parodi and Al Di Meola)	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)	Released: April 1, 2008[16] Label: Isol Discus Formats: CD, download	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
He & Carmen (Eszter Horgas and Al Di Meola)	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	Released: 1976 Label: Sony Music Vinyl, CD
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 (with Larry Coryell and Bireli Lagrene)	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 (with Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke)	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)	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)	Released: 7 August 2007 Label: Eagle Rock Formats: DVD
Cosmopolitan Live (with Leonid Agutin)	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)	Released: 12 May 2009 Label: Eagle Rock Formats: DVD, Blu-ray
Live in Tokyo (with The Sturcz String 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

Singles

As lead artist

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"

As featured artist

Title	Year	Album
"The Cruelest Goodbye" (Outlanders featuring Al Di Meola)	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]

References

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34. "Amazon.com: Deja-Vu: Leonid Agutin: MP3 Downloads". amazon.com.

External links

• Al Di Meola Official Web Site