Allan Holdsworth - A Listening Guide

Ranking: 1 - Essential listening 2 - Highly recommended 3 - Recommended 4 - For specially interested 5 - For collectors only

Album artist	Album name	Year	Type	Rank
Igginbottom	Igginbottom's Wrench [1]	1969	Band member	4
Ian Carr	Belladonna [2]	1973	Band member	4
Tempest	Tempest [3]	1973	Band member	3
Soft Machine	Bundles [4]	1975	Band member	1
The New Tony Williams Lifetime	Believe It [5]	1975	Band member	1
The New Tony Williams Lifetime	Million Dollar Legs [6]	1976	Band member	4
Allan Holdsworth	Velvet Darkness [7]	1976	Solo artist	4
Gong	Gazeuse! [8]	1976	Band member	2
Bruford	Feels Good To Me [9]	1977	Band member	3
Esther Phillips	Capricorn Princess [10]	1977	Session, 1 track	5
Jean-Luc Ponty	Enigmatic Ocean [11]	1977	Band member	3
John Stevens	Retouch [12]	1977	Band member	5
Gong	Expresso II [13]	1978	Session, 4 tracks	3
U.K.	U.K. [14]	1978	Band member	3
John Stevens	Touching On [15] [16]	1978	Band member	5
Bruford	One Of A Kind [17]	1979	Band member	2
Gordon Beck	Sunbird [18]	1979	Band member	3
Pierre Moerlen's Gong	Time Is The Key [19][20]	1979	Session, 2 tracks	4
Allan Holdsworth, Gordon Beck, Jeff Clyne, John Stevens	Conversation Piece [21] [22]	1980	Band member	5
Soft Machine	Land Of Cockayne [23]	1981	Session	5
Allan Holdsworth & Gordon Beck	The Things You See [24]	1981	Band member	3
Allan Holdsworth	I.O.U. [25]	1982	Solo artist	1
Allan Holdsworth	Road Games [26]	1983	Solo artist	1
Jean-Luc Ponty	Individual Choice [27][28]	1983	Session, 2 tracks	3
Jon St. James	Transatlantic [29] [30]	1984	Session, 2 tracks	5
Allan Holdsworth	Metal Fatigue [31]	1985	Solo artist	1
Rege Burrell	Victim Of Emotion	1985	Session, 1 track	5
Allan Holdsworth	Atavachron [32]	1986	Solo artist	1
Soma	Soma [33] [34]	1986	Session, 5 tracks	3
Jon St. James	Fast Impressions [35] [36]	1986	Session, 2 tracks	3
Krokus	Change Of Address [37]	1986	Session, 1 track	4
Allan Holdsworth	Sand [38]	1987	Solo artist	1
Stanley Clarke	If This Bass Could Only Talk [39]	1988	Session, 1 track	3
Stuart Hamm	Radio Free Albemuth [40]	1988	Session, 1 track	3
Allan Holdsworth	Secrets [41]	1989	Solo artist	1
Alex Masi	Attack Of The Neon Shark [42]	1989	Session, 1 track	4
Strange Advance	The Distance Between [43] [44]	1989	Session, 2 tracks	4
Jack Bruce	A Question Of Time [45] [46]	1989	Session, 2 tracks	3
Allan Holdsworth & Gordon Beck	With A Heart In My Song [47]	1989	Band member	2
Gordon Beck	Dreams [48]	1989	Producer	5
Carl Verheyen	No Borders [49]	1989	Session, 1 track	4
Various Artists	Guitar's Practicing Musicians [50]	1989	Session, 1 track w/ Jeff Watson	4
MVP	Truth In Shredding [51]	1990	Band member	1
Steve Tavaglione	Blue Tav [52]	1990	Session, 1 track	3
Andrea Marcelli	Silent Will [53] [54]	1990	Session, 3 tracks	2
Level 42	Guaranteed [55]	1991	Band member	4
Chad Wackerman	Forty Reasons [56]	1991	Band member	2
Paz	Love In Peace (Amour Empaz) [57]	1991	Session, 1 track	5
Jeff Watson	Lone Ranger [58]	1992	Session, 1 track	4
Andrea Marcelli	Oneness [59] [60]	1992	Session, 2 tracks	2
Allan Holdsworth	Wardenclyffe Tower [61]	1993	Solo artist	1
Allan Holdsworth	Wardenclyffe Tower +3 [62]	1993	Solo artist	1
Various Artists	Come Together [63]	1993	Session, 1 track	2
Chad Wackerman	The View [64]	1993	Session, 6 tracks	3
Allan Holdsworth	Hard Hat Area [65]	1993	Solo artist	1
Allan Holdsworth	Just For The Curious	1993	Solo artist	4
Gongzilla	Suffer [66] [67] [68] [69]	1995	Session, 4 tracks	2
Allan Holdsworth	None Too Soon [70]	1996	Solo artist	2
Anders Johansson, Jens Johansson & Allan Holdsworth	Heavy Machinery [71]	1996	Band member	3
Gorky Park	Stare [72]	1996	Session, 1 track	4
Allan Holdsworth	I.O.U. Live	1997	Solo artist	5
Steve Hunt	From Your Heart And From Your Soul [73]	1997	Session, 1 track	3
Allan Holdsworth	The Sixteen Men Of Tain [74]	2000	Solo artist	1
Allan Holdsworth	Flat Tire [75]	2001	Solo artist	2
Allan Holdsworth	All Night Wrong[76]	2002	Solo artist	1
Soft Machine	BBC Radio 1971-1974 [77]	2003	Band member	3
Soft Works	Abracadabra [78]	2003	Band member	3
Atlantis	Pray For Rain [79]	2003	Session, 1 track	3
Allan Holdsworth Group	Then! [80]	2003	Solo artist	1
Derek Sherinian	Mythology [81] [82]	2004	Session, 2 tracks	2
K2	Book Of The Dead [83]	2004	Session, 4 tracks	3
Riptyde	Sonic Undertow [84] [85]	2004	Session/featured soloist	4
David Hines	Nebula [86] [87]	2005	Session, 2 tracks	3
Allan Holdsworth	Against The Clock [88] [89]	2005	Solo artist	1
Tempest	Under The Blossom: The Anthology [90]	2005	Band member	3
Soft Machine	Floating World Live [91]	2006	Band member	3
Bruford	Rock Goes To College [92]	2006	Band member	3
Planet X	Quantum [93] [94]	2007	Session, 2 tracks	3
Jean-Luc Ponty	The Acatama Experience [95]	2007	Session, 1 track	3
Dan Carlin & Friends	Prowlin’ [96]	2007	Session, 1 track	4
Chris Buck	Progosaurus [97]	2008	Session, 1 track	4
Holdsworth, Pasqua, Haslip, Wackerman	Blues For Tony [98]	2009	Band member	1
Danny Thompson, Allan Holdsworth, John Stevens	Propensity [99]	2009	Band member	5
Snew	Highway Star [100]	2009	Session, 1 track	3
Paul Korda	Early Years [101]	2009	Session, 1 track	4
Eric Keyes	No One Knows My Thirst [102]	2009	Session, 1 track	3
Gary Husband	Dirty And Beautiful Volume 1 [103]	2010	Session, 3 tracks	3
Corrado Rustici	Deconstruction Of A Postmodern Musician [104]	2010	Session, 1 track	3
Level 42	Living It Up	2010	Session, 1 track	5
Gary Husband	Dirty And Beautiful Volume 2 [105]	2012	Session, 1 track	3
Chad Wackerman	Dreams Nightmares And Improvisations [106]	2012	Band member	4
Soft Machine	Switzerland 1974	2015	Band member	3
U.K.	Ultimate Collector's Edition	2016	Band member	4
Allan Holdsworth	Tales From The Vault [107]	2016	Solo artist	4
Allan Holdsworth	Eidolon [108]	2017	Solo artist	1
Allan Holdsworth	The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever [109]	2017	Solo artist	B1
MSM Schmidt	Life [110] [111]	2017	Session, 2 tracks	2
Allan Holdsworth	Live In Japan 1984 [112]	2018	Solo artist	1
Peter Lemer	Jet Yellow [113]	2019	Session, 1 track.	4
Allan Holdsworth	Warsaw Summer Jazz Days '98 [114]	2019	Solo artist	2
Holdsworth/Warleigh/Mathewson/Spring	Warleigh Manor [115]	2020	Group member	4
PAZ with The Singing Bowls of Tibet	Live In London '81: The Ron Mathewson Tapes Vol. 2 [116]	2020	Group member	5
Allan Holdsworth	Frankfurt '86 [117]	2020	Solo artist	3
Lockwood/Beck/Holdsworth/Jenny-Clark/Romano	The Unique Concert [118]	2020	Group member	3
Soft Works	Abracadabra In Osaka [119]	2020	Group member	3
Allan Holdsworth	Leverkusen '97	2021	Solo artist	1