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Al Di Meola discography

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Al Di Meola discography
Studio albums26
Live albums7
Compilation albums7
Singles9
As featured artist1
Collaboration albums8

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

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Studio albums

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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.
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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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As lead artist

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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"
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Title Year Album
"The Cruelest Goodbye"
(Outlanders featuring Al Di Meola)
2022 Non-album single

Other appearances

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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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  3. ^ "The Guitar Trio: Paco de Lucia/John McLaughlin/Al Di Meola - Paco de Lucía,Al Di Meola,John McLaughlin | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
  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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  10. ^ "RIAA - Gold & Platinum Searchable Database". RIAA. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
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  17. ^ "Al Di Meola: Live at Montreux, 1986, 1989, 1993 - Al di Meola - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  18. ^ Ken Dryden. "Live at Montreux 1994 [DVD] - Stanley Clarke, Al di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  19. ^ Joe Viglione. "Speak a Volcano: Return to Electric Guitar - Al di Meola - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic". AllMusic.
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  21. ^ "Go Too - Stomu Yamashta, Stomu Yamashta's Go - Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  22. ^ "Greece". george-dalaras.com.
  23. ^ "Jazz Reviews: JazzpanaVince Mendoza/Arif Mardin - By Andrew Lindemann Malone — Jazz Articles". jazztimes.com. Archived from the original on 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
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  25. ^ "Magic Touch - Stanley Jordan - Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic.
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  27. ^ William Ruhlmann. "Pavarotti & Friends for War Child - Luciano Pavarotti - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  28. ^ "MAN DOKI : People in room no 8". jorgenand.se.
  29. ^ "Crossing the Bridge - Eileen Ivers - Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  30. ^ "Nylon & Steel - Manuel Barrueco - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  31. ^ "The Running Roads - George Dalaras - Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  32. ^ "Camino Latino (Latin Journey) - Liona Boyd - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  33. ^ "Untitled Document". dereksherinian.com. Archived from the original on 2008-10-11.
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