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, 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—343848———
Electric Guitarist
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, CS, digital download
 1056—73—3840—
Electric Dreams
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 14714—75—27——
Belo Horizonte
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 17211——————
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
 ————————
Music for Abandoned Heights
  • Released: 9 January 2026
  • Label: IMPEX Records
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl, SACD
 ————————
"—" 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——102612—197
Passion, Grace and Fire
with Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucía
  • Released: 23 March 1983
  • Label: Philips
  • Formats: LP, CD, digital download[25]
 171923—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—552721——
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
 976——2266548154—
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
 —43—————168118
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
 ——————————
Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2022
  • Released: 8 August 2025
 ——————————
"—" 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

With Shakti

With Remember Shakti

References

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