Di Meola’s album Elegant Gypsy was released in 1977 and reached #5 on the US Jazz chart and was certified Gold in the US. His next four albums Casino, Splendido Hotel, Electric Rendezvous, and Scenario all reached the Top 10 on the US Jazz chart. Di Meola would go on to release the albums Cielo e Terra, Soaring Through a Dream, Tirami Su, World Sinfonia, Kiss My Axe, World Sinfornia II – Heart of the Immigrants, Orange and Blue, Di Meola Plays Piazzolla, The Infinite Desire, Winter Nights, World Sinfonia III – The Grande Passion, Flesh on Flesh, Consequence of Chaos, Vocal Rendezvous, Diabolic Inventions And Seduction For Solo Guitar, Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody, All Your Life (A Tribute to the Beatles), and Elysium. Di Meola has collaborated with several artists and at one point was named Best Jazz Guitarist by readers of Guitar Player Magazine five years in a row.