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.
| Al Di Meola discography | |
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| Studio albums | 26 |
| Live albums | 7 |
| Compilation albums | 7 |
| Singles | 8 |
| As featured artist | 1 |
| Collaboration albums | 8 |
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 |
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129 | 13 | — | — | 20 | — | — | ||||||
| Elegant Gypsy |
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58 | 5 | — | 40 | — | 35 | — |
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| Casino |
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52 | 5 | — | 37 | — | — | — | ||||||
| Splendido Hotel |
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119 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Electric Rendezvous |
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55 | 3 | — | 26 | — | 47 | 57 | ||||||
| Scenario |
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128 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Cielo e Terra |
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— | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Soaring Through a Dream |
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— | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Tirami Su |
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190 | — | 14 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| World Sinfonia |
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— | — | 10 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Kiss My Axe |
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— | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| World Sinfonia II – Heart of the Immigrants |
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— | — | 15 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Orange and Blue |
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— | — | 17 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Di Meola Plays Piazzolla |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| The Infinite Desire |
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— | — | 17 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Winter Nights |
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— | — | 15 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| World Sinfonía III - The Grande Passion |
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— | — | 24 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Flesh on Flesh |
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— | — | 25 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Consequence of Chaos |
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— | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Vocal Rendezvous |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Diabolic Inventions and Seduction For Solo Guitar |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody |
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— | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| All Your Life (A Tribute to the Beatles) |
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— | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Elysium |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Opus |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | 80 | ||||||
| Across the Universe |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | 36 | ||||||
| Twentyfour[11] |
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TBA | ||||||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
with Return to Forever edit
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| 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 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] |
US Jazz [1] |
US Cont Jazz [1] |
GER [9] |
NLD [7] |
AUT [12] |
NZL [8] |
FRA [13] | |||||||
| Friday Night in San Francisco Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin, and Al Di Meola) |
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97 | 6 | — | 22 | 66 | 5 | 48 | 154 | |||||
| Passion, Grace and Fire (Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin, and Al Di Meola) |
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171 | 9 | — | 35 | — | — | — | — | |||||
| The Rite of Strings (Stanley Clarke, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Di Meola) |
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— | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| The Guitar Trio (Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin, and Al Di Meola) |
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— | 1 | — | 55 | — | 27 | — | 21 | |||||
| Cosmopolitan Life (Leonid Agutin and Al Di Meola) |
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— | — | — | 57 | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Midsummer Night in Sardinia Andrea Parodi and Al Di Meola) |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| The NYC Session: Beautiful Love (Eddie Gómez, Billy Drummond, Yutaka Kobayashi, and Al Di Meola) |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| He & Carmen (Eszter Horgas and Al Di Meola) |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
Live albums edit
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] |
US Jazz [1] | |||||||||||||
| Tour De Force – Live |
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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 |
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| Morocco Fantasia |
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| Elegant Gypsy & More |
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| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
Compilation albums edit
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| "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" |
As featured artist edit
| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "The Cruelest Goodbye" (Outlanders featuring Al Di Meola) |
2022 | Non-album single |
Other appearances edit
| 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 | [20] |
| 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 | [21] | |
| 1993 | guitar | Jazzpana - Vince Mendoza and Arif Mardin | [22] |
| 1995 | guitar | David Broza - David Broza | [23] |
| acoustic guitar | Dance of Fire - Aziza Mustafa Zadeh | ||
| producer | Magic Touch - Stanley Jordan | [24] | |
| 1996 | guitar in "El Ciego" | The Promise - John McLaughlin | [25] |
| guitar in "Mediterranean Sundance" | Pavarotti & Friends For War Child - Luciano Pavarotti | [26] | |
| 1997 | guitar | People in Room No 8 - Leslie Mándoki | [27] |
| 1999 | guitar | Crossing the Bridge - Eileen Ivers | [28] |
| 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 | [29] |
| acoustic guitar | The Running Roads - George Dalaras | [30] | |
| 2002 | guitar in "Torbellino (Whirlwind)" | Camino Latino - Liona Boyd | [31] |
| 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 | [32] |
| guitar in "Sinej Reki Voda" | Deja Vu - Leonid Agutin | [33] |
References edit
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