John McLaughlin discography

John McLaughlin discography
McLaughlin performing in France, 2016
Studio albums18
Live albums8
Compilation albums1
Collaborative albums4

The following is a John McLaughlin discography, grouped by albums released under his name, the Miles Davis albums which he played on, albums from his group Mahavishnu Orchestra, his group Shakti, and albums where he is a session player on other artists' releases.


Solo albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[1][2][3][4][5] 		US Jazz
[1] 		US Top
Jazz
[1] 		AUS[6] GER
[7] 		NZL
[8] 		SWE
[9] 		JPN
[10][11]
Extrapolation
  • Released: 1969
  • Label: Marmalade, Polydor Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 152 — — — — — — —
Devotion
  • Released: September 1970
  • Label: Douglas Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 — — — — — — — —
My Goal's Beyond
  • Released: June 1971
  • Label: Douglas Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, CS, digital download
 194 — 34 38 48 — — —
Electric Guitarist
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, CS, digital download
 105 6 — 73 — 38 40 —
Electric Dreams
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 147 14 — 75 — 27 — —
Belo Horizonte
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 172 11 — — — — — —
Music Spoken Here
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 — 24 — — — — — —
Que Alegria
  • Released: 7 April 1992
  • Label: Verve Records
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 — — — 5 — — — —
Time Remembered: John McLaughlin Plays Bill Evans
  • Released: 9 November 1993
  • Label: Verve Records
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 — — — — — — — —
After the Rain
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Verve Records
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 — — 9 — — — — —
The Promise
  • Released: 21 December 1995[12]
  • Label: Verve Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 — — 4 — — — — 92
The Heart of Things
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Verve Records
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 — — 4 — — — — —
Thieves and Poets
  • Released: 14 October 2003[13]
  • Label: Verve Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 — — 20 — — — — —
Industrial Zen
  • Released: 22 May 2006[14]
  • Label: Verve Records
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 — — 9 — — — — —
Floating Point
  • Released: 20 May 2008[15]
  • Label: Abstract Logix
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 — — 14 — — — — —
To the One
with The 4th Dimension
  • Released: 20 April 2010[16]
  • Label: Abstract Logix
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 — 27 — — — — — —
Now Here This
with The 4th Dimension
  • Released: 16 October 2012[17]
  • Label: Abstract Logix
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 — 25 — — — — — —
Black Light
with The 4th Dimension
  • Released: 18 September 2015[18]
  • Label: Abstract Logix
  • Formats: CD
 — 14 — — — — — —
Liberation Time
  • Released: 16 July 2021
  • Label: Abstract Logix
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl, digital download
 — — — — — — — —
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Collaborative albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certification
US
[1] 		US Jazz
[1] 		US Top
Jazz
[1] 		AUS[6] GER
[7] 		AUT
[19] 		FRA
[20] 		NOR
[21] 		UK
[22]
Where Fortune Smiles with John Surman,
Dave Holland, Karl Berger, and Stu Martin
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: Dawn Records
  • Formats: CD
 — — — — — — — — —
Love Devotion Surrender
with Carlos Santana
  • Released: 20 July 1973
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD, digital download[23]
 14 — — 10 26 12 — 19 7
Passion, Grace and Fire
with Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucía
  • Released: 23 March 1983
  • Label: Philips
  • Formats: LP, CD, digital download[25]
 171 9 23 — 35 — — — —
The Guitar Trio
with Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucía
  • Released: 15 October 1996[26]
  • Label: Verve Records
  • Formats: LP, CD, digital download[27]
 — — 1 — 55 27 21 — —
Paco and John Live at Montreux 1987
with Paco de Lucía
  • Released: 24 June 2016
  • Label: Verycords
  • Format: LP, CD
 — — — — — — — — —
Is That So?
with Shankar Mahadevan and Zakir Hussain
  • Released: 17 January 2020
  • Label: Abstract Logix
  • Format: LP, CD, digital download[28]
 — — — — — — — — —
"—" 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] 		US Top
Jazz
[1] 		US Cont
Jazz
[1] 		GER
[7] 		NLD
[29] 		AUT
[19] 		NZL
[8] 		FRA
[20] 		JPN
[10]
Friday Night in San Francisco
with Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucía
  • Released: 10 August 1981
  • Label: Philips
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 97 6 — — 22 66 5 48 154 —
Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra "The Mediterranean" – Duos for Guitar & Piano
with London Symphony Orchestra and Katia Labeque
  • Released: 1988[30]
  • Label: CBS
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 — — — — — — — — — —
Live at the Royal Festival Hall
  • Released: 27 November 1989[31]
  • Label: JMT Productions
  • Formats: CD, LP
 — — — 3 — — — — — —
Tokyo Live
  • Released: 1993[32]
  • Label: Verve Records
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 — — 11 — — — — — — —
The Heart of Things: Live in Paris
  • Released: 3 October 2000[33]
  • Label: Universal, Verve Records
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 — — 25 — — — — — — —
Montreux Concerts[34]
  • Released: 22 December 2003
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: 17-CD box set
 — — — — — — — — — —
Official Pirate: The Best of the American Tour 2007
with The 4th Dimension
  • Released: 13 September 2007[35]
  • Label: Abstract Logix
  • Formats: CD-R
 — — — — — — — — — —
Five Peace Band Live
with Chick Corea
  • Released: 28 April 2009[36]
  • Label: Concord Records
  • Formats: 2CD, digital download
 — 4 3 — — — — — 168 118
The Boston Record
with The 4th Dimension
  • Released: 18 March 2014[37]
  • Label: Abstract Logix
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 — 18 — — — — — — — —
Paco and John Live at Montreux 1987
with Paco de Lucía
  • Released: 24 June 2016
  • Label: Verycords
  • Format: LP, CD
 — — — — — — — — — —
Live at Ronnie Scott's
with The 4th Dimension
  • Released: 15 September 2017[38]
  • Label: Abstract Logix
  • Formats: CD
 — — — — — — — — — —
Live in San Francisco
with The 4th Dimension
  • Released: 21 September 2018[39]
  • Label: Abstract Logix
  • Formats: CD
 — — — — — — — — — —
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Other appearances

Album Year Notes Ref.
Twice as Much – Own Up 1966 guitar [40]
Gordon Beck – Experiments with Pops 1968 guitar [41]
Miles Davis – In a Silent Way 1969 electric guitar [42]
The Tony Williams Lifetime – Emergency! guitar [43]
Wayne Shorter – Super Nova "Supernova", "Swee-Pea",
"Water Babies" and "Capricorn" 		[44]
Sandy Brown and His Gentleman Friends – Hair at Its Hairiest guitar [45]
Miroslav Vitous – Infinite Search guitar [46]
Miles Davis – Bitches Brew 1970 electric guitar [47]
Jack Bruce – Things We Like guitar [48]
The Tony Williams Lifetime – Turn It Over guitar [49]
Miroslav Vitous – Purple guitar [50]
Joe Farrell – Follow Your Heart guitar [51]
Duffy Power – Innovations guitar [52]
Graham Bond – Solid Bond guitar, live with the Graham Bond Quartet, 1963; "Ho Ho Country Kicking Blues", The Grass Is Greener", "Doxy" [53]
Larry Coryell – Spaces guitar [54]
Miles Davis – A Tribute to Jack Johnson 1971 electric guitar [55]
Miles Davis – Live-Evil electric guitar [56]
Carla Bley and Paul Haines – Escalator Over the Hill guitar [57]
James Taylor – One Man Dog 1972 guitar [58]
Miles Davis – On the Corner electric guitar on "On the Corner; New York Girl;
Thinkin' One Thing and Doin' Another; Vote for Miles" 		[59]
Santana – Welcome 1973 guitar on "Flame – Sky" [60]
Wayne Shorter – Moto Grosso Feio 1974 12 string guitar [61]
Miles Davis – Big Fun guitar on "Great Expectations/Orange Lady", "Recollections",
"Go Ahead John", "The Little Blue Frog" and "Yaphet" 		[62]
Miles Davis – Get Up with It guitar on "Honky Tonk" [63]
Stanley Clarke – Journey to Love 1975 guitar [64]
Larry Coryell – Planet End guitar [65]
Stanley Clarke – School Days 1976 acoustic guitar on "Desert Song" [66]
Miles Davis – Circle in the Round 1979 guitar on "Guinnevere" [67]
Miles Davis – Directions 1980 guitar [68]
Paco de Lucía – Castro Marín 1981 guitar [69]
Miles Davis – You're Under Arrest 1985 guitar on "Ms. Morrisine", "Katia Prelude" and "Katia" [70]
Bill Evans – The Alternative Man guitar [71]
Herbie Hancock – Round Midnight (Soundtrack) 1986 guitar on "Body and Soul" and "Bérangère's Nightmare" [72]
Dexter Gordon – The Other Side of Round Midnight guitar [73]
Katia and Marielle Labeque – Gladrags producer [74]
Zakir Hussain with Jan Garbarek
and Hariprasad Chaurasia – Making Music 		acoustic guitar [75]
Miles Davis – Aura 1989 guitar [76]
Katia and Marielle Labeque – Love of Colours 1990 piano, programming, producer [77]
Carlos Santana and Bill Laswell -
Divine Light: Reconstructions & Mix Translation 		2001 guitar, piano [78]
Leni Stern – Finally the Rain Has Come 2002 guitar [79]
Ithamara Koorax – Someday guitar [80]
Miroslav Vitous – Universal Syncopations 2003 guitar [81]
Miles Davis – The Cellar Door Sessions 2005 electric guitar [82]
Santana – Hymns for Peace: Live at Montreux 2004 2007 guitar [83]
Hadrien Feraud – Hadrian Feraud composer [84]
Gary Husband – Dirty & Beautiful (Volume 1) 2010 guitar on "Dreams in Blue"

With Mahavishnu Orchestra

Further information: Mahavishnu Orchestra § Discography

With Shakti

Further information: Shakti (band) § Discography

With Remember Shakti

Further information: Remember Shakti § Discography

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