Al Di Meola discography
Al Di Meola discography | |
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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
[edit]Studio albums
[edit]Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||||
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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 |
| 129 | 13 | — | — | 20 | — | — | ||||||
Elegant Gypsy |
| 58 | 5 | — | 40 | — | 35 | — | ||||||
Casino |
| 52 | 5 | — | 37 | — | — | — | ||||||
Splendido Hotel |
| 119 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Electric Rendezvous |
| 55 | 3 | — | 26 | — | 47 | 57 | ||||||
Scenario |
| 128 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Cielo e Terra |
| — | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Soaring Through a Dream |
| — | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Tirami Su |
| 190 | — | 14 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
World Sinfonia |
| — | — | 10 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Kiss My Axe |
| — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
World Sinfonia II – Heart of the Immigrants |
| — | — | 15 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Orange and Blue |
| — | — | 17 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Di Meola Plays Piazzolla |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
The Infinite Desire |
| — | — | 17 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Winter Nights |
| — | — | 15 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
World Sinfonía III - The Grande Passion |
| — | — | 24 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Flesh on Flesh |
| — | — | 25 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Consequence of Chaos |
| — | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Vocal Rendezvous |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Diabolic Inventions and Seduction For Solo Guitar |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody |
| — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
All Your Life (A Tribute to the Beatles) |
| — | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Elysium |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Opus |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | 80 | ||||||
Across the Universe |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | 36 | ||||||
Twentyfour[12] |
| TBA | ||||||||||||
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
with Return to Forever
[edit]Title | Album details |
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Where Have I Known You Before |
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No Mystery |
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Romantic Warrior |
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Returns |
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Collaborations
[edit]Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||
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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) |
| 97 | 6 | — | 22 | 66 | 5 | 48 | 154 | |||||
Passion, Grace and Fire (Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin, and Al Di Meola) |
| 171 | 9 | — | 35 | — | — | — | — | |||||
The Rite of Strings (Stanley Clarke, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Di Meola) |
| — | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
The Guitar Trio (Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin, and Al Di Meola) |
| — | 1 | — | 55 | — | 27 | — | 21 | |||||
Cosmopolitan Life (Leonid Agutin and Al Di Meola) |
| — | — | — | 57 | — | — | — | — | |||||
Midsummer Night in Sardinia Andrea Parodi and Al Di Meola) |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
The NYC Session: Beautiful Love (Eddie Gómez, Billy Drummond, Yutaka Kobayashi, and Al Di Meola) |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
He & Carmen (Eszter Horgas and Al Di Meola) |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Live albums
[edit]Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||
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US [1] | US Jazz [1] | |||||||||||||
Tour De Force – Live |
| 165 | 8 | |||||||||||
Live in London |
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Melodia Live in Milano |
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World Sinfonia: Live from Seattle and Elsewhere |
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Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival |
| — | — | |||||||||||
Morocco Fantasia |
| — | — | |||||||||||
Elegant Gypsy & More |
| — | — | |||||||||||
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Compilation albums
[edit]Title | Details |
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This Is Jazz |
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The Essence of Al Di Meola |
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Greatest Hits |
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The Best of Al Di Meola: The Manhattan Years |
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Anthology |
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Al Di Meola Collection |
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Elysium |
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Video albums
[edit]Title | Video details |
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The Super Guitar Trio and Friends (with Larry Coryell and Bireli Lagrene) |
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Live at Montreux 1986/1993 |
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Live at Montreux 1994 (with Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke) |
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One of These Nights (with Ernie Adams, Gumbi Ortiz, Mario Parmisano, and Sturcz String Quartet) |
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Speak a Volcano: Return to Electric Guitar |
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Super Guitar Trio: Live at Montreux /1989 (with Larry Coryell and Bireli Lagrene) |
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Cosmopolitan Live (with Leonid Agutin) |
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Return to Forever: Returns – Live at Montreux (with Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea and Lenny White) |
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Live in Tokyo (with The Sturcz String Quartet) |
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Live at North Sea Jazz Festival |
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One Night in Montreal |
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Carmen |
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Morocco Fantasia |
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Singles
[edit]As lead artist
[edit]Title | Year | Album |
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"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
[edit]Title | Year | Album |
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"The Cruelest Goodbye" (Outlanders featuring Al Di Meola) | 2022 | Non-album single |
Other appearances
[edit]Year | Notes | Album | Ref |
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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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- ^ "Friday Night in San Francisco - Al Di Meola,John McLaughlin,Paco de Lucía | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
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- ^ Thom Jurek. "Beautiful Love: The NYC Session Featuring Al di Meola - Eddie Gomez - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic". AllMusic.
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- ^ "The Running Roads - George Dalaras - Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic.
- ^ "Camino Latino (Latin Journey) - Liona Boyd - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic". AllMusic.
- ^ "Untitled Document". dereksherinian.com. Archived from the original on 2008-10-11.
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