Discography by recording year

Click on "Recorded" to have the table sorted by year of recording. The dates are approximate. For original studio albums, the year of recording will be set to the release year. The same goes for compilation albums. The purpose of this list is really to see live albums in the order that they were recorded.

Album artist	Album name	Recorded	Role	Performance
Igginbottom	Igginbottom's Wrench [1]	1969	Band member	Guitar, vocals, composer
Ian Carr	Belladonna [2]	1972	Band member	Guitar
Tempest	Tempest [3]	1973	Band member	Guitar, vocals, violin, composer
Soft Machine	Bundles [4]	1975	Band member	Guitar, composer
The New Tony Williams Lifetime	Believe It [5]	1975	Band member	Guitar, composer
The New Tony Williams Lifetime	Million Dollar Legs [6]	1976	Band member	Guitar
Allan Holdsworth	Velvet Darkness [7]	1976	Solo artist	Guitar, violin, composer
Gong	Gazeuse! [8]	1976	Band member	Guitar, violin, steel guitar, composer
Bruford	Feels Good To Me [9]	1977	Band member	Guitar
Esther Phillips	Capricorn Princess [10]	1977	Session, 1 track	Pedal steel guitar
Jean-Luc Ponty	Enigmatic Ocean [11]	1977	Band member	Guitar
John Stevens	Retouch [12]	1977	Band member	Guitar, composer
Gong	Expresso II [13]	1978	Session, 4 tracks	Guitar
U.K.	U.K. [14]	1978	Band member	Guitar, composer
John Stevens	Touching On [15] [16]	1978	Band member	Guitar, composer
Bruford	One Of A Kind[17] [18]	1979	Band member	Guitar, composer
Gordon Beck	Sunbird [19]	1979	Band member	Guitar, violin
Pierre Moerlen's Gong	Time Is The Key [20][21]	1979	Session, 2 tracks	Guitar
Allan Holdsworth, Gordon Beck, Jeff Clyne, John Stevens	Conversation Piece [22][23] [24]	1977	Band member	Guitar, composer
Soft Machine	Land Of Cockayne [25]	1981	Session	Guitar
Allan Holdsworth & Gordon Beck	The Things You See [26]	1981	Band member	Guitar, vocals, composer
Allan Holdsworth	I.O.U. [27]	1982	Solo artist	Guitar, violin, composer
Allan Holdsworth	Road Games [28]	1983	Solo artist	Guitar, composer
Jean-Luc Ponty	Individual Choice [29][30]	1983	Session, 2 tracks	Guitar
Jon St. James	Transatlantic [31] [32]	1984	Session, 2 tracks	Guitar
Allan Holdsworth	Metal Fatigue [33]	1985	Solo artist	Guitar, composer
Rege Burrell	Victim Of Emotion [34]	1985	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Allan Holdsworth	Atavachron [35]	1986	Solo artist	Guitar, SynthAxe
Soma	Soma [36] [37]	1986	Session, 5 tracks	Guitar
Jon St. James	Fast Impressions [38] [39]	1986	Session, 2 tracks	Guitar, SynthAxe
Krokus	Change Of Address [40]	1986	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Allan Holdsworth	Sand [41]	1987	Solo artist	Guitar, SynthAxe, composer
Stanley Clarke	If This Bass Could Only Talk [42]	1988	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Stuart Hamm	Radio Free Albemuth [43]	1988	Session, 1 track	SynthAxe
Allan Holdsworth	Secrets [44]	1989	Solo artist	Guitar, SynthAxe, composer
Alex Masi	Attack Of The Neon Shark [45]	1989	Session, 1 track	SynthAxe
Strange Advance	The Distance Between [46] [47]	1989	Session, 2 tracks	Guitar
Jack Bruce	A Question Of Time [48] [49]	1989	Session, 2 tracks	Guitar, SynthAxe
Allan Holdsworth & Gordon Beck	With A Heart In My Song [50]	1989	Band member	Guitar, SynthAxe, composer
Gordon Beck	Dreams [51]	1989	Producer	Producer only
Carl Verheyen	No Borders [52]	1989	Session, 1 track	SynthAxe
Various Artists	Guitar's Practicing Musicians [53]	1989	Session, 1 track w/ Jeff Watson	Guitar
MVP	Truth In Shredding [54]	1990	Band member	Guitar, SynthAxe
Steve Tavaglione	Blue Tav [55]	1990	Session, 1 track	Guitar/SynthAxe
Andrea Marcelli	Silent Will [56]	1990	Session, 3 tracks	Guitar/SynthAxe
Level 42	Guaranteed [57]	1991	Band member	Guitar
Chad Wackerman	Forty Reasons [58]	1991	Band member	Guitar
Paz	Love In Peace (Amour Empaz) [59]	1991	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Jeff Watson	Lone Ranger [60]	1992	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Andrea Marcelli	Oneness [61] [62]	1992	Session, 2 tracks	Guitar/baritone guitar
Allan Holdsworth	Wardenclyffe Tower [63]	1993	Solo artist	Guitar, SynthAxe, composer
Allan Holdsworth	Wardenclyffe Tower +3 [64]	1993	Solo artist	Guitar, SynthAxe, composer
Various Artists	Come Together [65]	1993	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Chad Wackerman	The View [66]	1993	Session, 6 tracks	Guitar
Allan Holdsworth	Hard Hat Area [67]	1993	Solo artist	Guitar, SynthAxe, composer
Allan Holdsworth	Just For The Curious	1993	Solo artist	Guitar, composer
Gongzilla	Suffer [68] [69] [70] [71] [72]	1995	Session, 4 tracks	Guitar
Allan Holdsworth	None Too Soon [73]	1996	Solo artist	Guitar, SynthAxe
Anders Johansson, Jens Johansson & Allan Holdsworth	Heavy Machinery [74]	1996	Band member	Guitar
Gorky Park	Stare [75]	1996	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Allan Holdsworth	I.O.U. Live	1984	Solo artist	Guitar, composer
Steve Hunt	From Your Heart And From Your Soul [76]	1997	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Allan Holdsworth	The Sixteen Men Of Tain [77]	2000	Solo artist	Guitar, SynthAxe, composer
Allan Holdsworth	Flat Tire [78]	2001	Solo artist	Guitar, SynthAxe, composer
Allan Holdsworth	All Night Wrong[79]	2002	Solo artist	Guitar, SynthAxe, composer
Allan Holdsworth	The Sixteen Men Of Tain - Special Edition[80]	2000	Solo artist	Guitar, SynthAxe, composer
Soft Machine	BBC Radio 1971-1974 [81]	1974	Band member	Guitar
Soft Works	Abracadabra [82]	2003	Band member	Guitar, composer
Atlantis	Pray For Rain [83]	2003	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Allan Holdsworth Group	Then! [84]	1990	Solo artist	Guitar, composer
Derek Sherinian	Mythology [85] [86]	2004	Session, 2 tracks	Guitar
K2	Book Of The Dead [87]	2004	Session, 4 tracks	Guitar
Riptyde	Sonic Undertow [88][89] [90] [91]	2004	Session/featured soloist	Guitar
David Hines	Nebula [92] [93]	2005	Session, 2 tracks	Guitar
Allan Holdsworth	Against The Clock [94] [95]	2005	Solo artist	Guitar, SynthAxe, composer
Tempest	Under The Blossom: The Anthology [96]	1973	Band member	Guitar
Soft Machine	Floating World Live [97]	1975	Band member	Guitar, violin, composer
Bruford	Rock Goes To College [98]	1979	Band member	Guitar
Planet X	Quantum [99] [100]	2007	Session, 2 tracks	Guitar
Jean-Luc Ponty	The Acatama Experience [101]	2007	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Dan Carlin & Friends	Prowlin’ [102]	2007	Session, 1 track	Guitar, SynthAxe
Chris Buck	Progosaurus [103]	2008	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Holdsworth, Pasqua, Haslip, Wackerman	Blues For Tony [104]	2007	Band member	Guitar, composer
Danny Thompson, Allan Holdsworth, John Stevens	Propensity [105][106]	1978	Band member	Guitar, composer
Snew	Highway Star [107]	2009	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Paul Korda	Early Years [108]	1985	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Eric Keyes	No One Knows My Thirst [109]	2009	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Gary Husband	Dirty And Beautiful Volume 1 [110]	2010	Session, 3 tracks	Guitar
Corrado Rustici	Deconstruction Of A Postmodern Musician [111]	2010	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Level 42	Living It Up	1990	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Gary Husband	Dirty And Beautiful Volume 2 [112]	2012	Session, 1 track	Guitar
Chad Wackerman	Dreams Nightmares And Improvisations [113]	2012	Band member	Guitar, SynthAxe, Starr Switch
Soft Machine	Switzerland 1974[114]	1974	Band member	Guitar, composer
U.K.	Ultimate Collector's Edition	1978	Band member	Guitar, composer
Allan Holdsworth	Tales From The Vault [115]	2016	Solo artist	Guitar, SynthAxe, composer
Allan Holdsworth	Eidolon [116]	2017	Solo artist	Guitar, SynthAxe, composer
Allan Holdsworth	The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever [117]	2017	Solo artist	Box Set
MSM Schmidt	Life [118] [119]	2017	Session, 2 tracks	Guitar
Allan Holdsworth	Live In Japan 1984 [120]	1984	Solo artist	Guitar, composer
Peter Lemer	Jet Yellow [121]	1977	Session, 1 track.	Guitar
Allan Holdsworth	Warsaw Summer Jazz Days '98 [122]	1998	Solo artist	Guitar, composer
Holdsworth/Warleigh/Mathewson/Spring	Warleigh Manor [123]	0000	Group member	Guitar, violin, composer
PAZ with The Singing Bowls of Tibet	Live In London '81: The Ron Mathewson Tapes Vol. 2 [124]	1981	Group member	Guitar
Allan Holdsworth	Frankfurt '86 [125]	1986	Solo artist	Guitar, SynthAxe, composer
Lockwood/Beck/Holdsworth/Jenny-Clark/Romano	The Unique Concert [126]	1981	Group member	Guitar, composer
Soft Works	Abracadabra In Osaka [127]	2003	Group member	Guitar, composer
Allan Holdsworth	Leverkusen '97 [128]	1997	Solo artist	Guitar, composer
Allan Holdsworth	Leverkusen 2010 [129]	2010	Solo artist	Guitar, composer
Nucleus	Live At The BBC (Nucleus album)	1972	Session	Guitar
Allan Holdsworth	Jarasum International Jazz Festival 2014 [130]	2014	Solo artist	Guitar, composer
Holdsworth, Pasqua, Haslip, Wackerman	Proto-Cosmos (live album) [131]	2006	Band member	Guitar, composer
Christy Coobatis	The Dreamer (single) [132]	1985	Session	Guitar
Pat Smythe Quartet	New Dawn: Live 1973 [133]	1973	Band member	Guitar
Pat Smythe Quartet	This Is British Progressive Jazz [134]	1973	One track	Guitar