# John McLaughlin discography

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 | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | US | US Jazz | US Top Jazz | AUS | GER | NZL | SWE | JPN |
| 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 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 Label: Verve Records Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — | — | 20 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Industrial Zen | Released: 22 May 2006 Label: Verve Records Formats: CD, digital download | — | — | 9 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Floating Point | Released: 20 May 2008 Label: Abstract Logix Formats: CD, digital download | — | — | 14 | — | — | — | — | — |
| To the One with The 4th Dimension | Released: 20 April 2010 Label: Abstract Logix Formats: CD, digital download | — | 27 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Now Here This with The 4th Dimension | Released: 16 October 2012 Label: Abstract Logix Formats: CD, digital download | — | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Black Light with The 4th Dimension | Released: 18 September 2015 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 | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certification |
| Title | Album details | US | US Jazz | US Top Jazz | AUS | GER | AUT | FRA | NOR | UK | Certification |
| 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 | 14 | — | — | 10 | 26 | 12 | — | 19 | 7 | US: Gold |
| Passion, Grace and Fire with Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucía | Released: 23 March 1983 Label: Philips Formats: LP, CD, digital download | 171 | 9 | 23 | — | 35 | — | — | — | — | |
| The Guitar Trio with Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucía | Released: 15 October 1996 Label: Verve Records Formats: LP, CD, digital download | — | — | 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. ||||||||||||

## Live albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | US | US Jazz | US Top Jazz | US Cont Jazz | GER | NLD | AUT | NZL | FRA | JPN |
| 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 Label: CBS Formats: CD, digital download | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Live at the Royal Festival Hall | Released: 27 November 1989 Label: JMT Productions Formats: CD, LP | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tokyo Live | Released: 1993 Label: Verve Records Formats: CD, digital download | — | — | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| The Heart of Things: Live in Paris | Released: 3 October 2000 Label: Universal, Verve Records Formats: CD, digital download | — | — | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Montreux Concerts | 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 Label: Abstract Logix Formats: CD-R | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Five Peace Band Live with Chick Corea | Released: 28 April 2009 Label: Concord Records Formats: 2CD, digital download | — | 4 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | 168 | 118 |
| The Boston Record with The 4th Dimension | Released: 18 March 2014 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 Label: Abstract Logix Formats: CD | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Live in San Francisco with The 4th Dimension | Released: 21 September 2018 Label: Abstract Logix Formats: CD | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. ||||||||||||

## Other appearances

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