| # | Title | Release Date | Label | Type | UK | USA |
| 1. | Bright Size Life | 2/1976 | ECM | | | |
| 2. | Jaco Pastorius / Pat Metheny / Bruce Ditmas / Paul Bley
produced by: Paul Bley | 2/1977 | Improvising Artists | | | |
| 3. | Watercolors | 2/1977 | | | | |
| 4. | Colours | 10.06.1977 | ECM | | | |
| 5. | The New Chautauqua | 4/1979 | ECM | | | 44 |
| 6. | Shadows And Light
& Joni Mitchell
(2LP) | 9/1980 | Asylum |  | 63 | 38 |
| 7. | As Falls Wichita, So Fall Wichita Falls
& Lyle Mays | 9/1980 | ECM | | | 50 |
| 8. | 80/81
(2LP) | 10/1980 | ECM | | | 89 |
| 9. | Works | 11/1983 | ECM |  | | |
| 10. | Rejoicing | 5/1984 | ECM | | | 116 |
| 11. | Song X
& Ornette Coleman | 5/1986 | Geffen | | | |
| 12. | Live In Concert
& B.B. King & Dave Brubeck & Heath Brothers | 1/1987 | Kingdom Jazz | | | |
| 13. | Works II | 6/1989 | ECM | | | |
| 14. | Pat Metheny | 7/1989 | Cleo | | | |
| 15. | Question And Answer | 7/1990 | Geffen | | | 154 |
| 16. | Secret Story | 7/1992 | Geffen | | | 110 |
| 17. | I Can See Your House from Here
& John Scofield | 1993 | Khiov Music | | | |
| 18. | Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories)
& Charlie Haden | 1996 | | | | |
| 19. | Tales from the Hudson
& Jack DeJohnette & Michael Brecker | 1996 | | | | |
| 20. | The Sign Of 4
& Derek Bailey | 26.05.1997 | Knitting Factory | | | |
| 21. | Like Minds
& Gary Burton & Chick Corea & Dave Holland & Roy Haynes | 09.11.1998 | Concord Jazz | | | |
| 22. | Jim Hall & Pat Metheny
& Jim Hall | 10.05.1999 | Telarc | | | |
| 23. | All The Things You Are
& Gary Burton & Health Brothers | 08.06.1999 | | | | |
| 24. | A Map Of The World | 09.11.1999 | Warner Bros |  | | |
| 25. | Trio 99>00 | 08.02.2000 | Warner Bros | | | |
| 26. | Trio Live | 11/2000 | Warner Bros | | | |
| 27. | One Quiet Night | 27.05.2003 | Warner Brothers | | | 167 |
| 28. | Rarum XIV: Selected Recordings | 10.02.2004 | ECM | | | |
| 29. | The Complete Move to the Groove Session | 30.07.2004 | Naxos Of America | | | |
| 30. | Move to the Groove
& The Heath Brothers | 11.07.2006 | | | | |
| 31. | Metheny Mehldau
& Brad Mehldau | 12.09.2006 | Nonesuch | | | |
| 32. | Quartet
& Brad Mehldau | 13.03.2007 | Nonesuch | | | |
| 33. | Day Trip
with Christian McBride & Antonio Sanchez | 28.01.2008 | Nonesuch | | | |
| 34. | Day Trip Live | 20.05.2008 | Nonesuch | | | |
| 35. | Upojenie
& Anna Maria Jopek | 07.10.2008 | Nonesuch | | | |
| 36. | Orchestrion | 22.01.2010 | Nonesuch | | | 114 |
| 37. | What's It All About | 14.06.2011 | Nonesuch | | | 125 |
| 38. | Jim Hall & Pat Metheny
& Jim Hall | 01.11.2011 | Nonesuch | | | |
| 39. | The Orchestrion Project | 27.08.2012 | Nonesuch | | | |
| 40. | Tap: Book Of Angels Vol 20 | 15.05.2013 | Tzadik | | | |
| 41. | Essential Collection: Last Train Home | 10.03.2015 | | | | |
| 42. | Hommage to Eberhard Weber
& The SWR Big Band & Gary Burton & Jan Garbarek | 11.09.2015 | | | | |
| 43. | The Unity Sessions | 18.09.2015 | Eagle Rock | | | |
| 44. | Live: Montreal '89
& Charlie Haden & Jack DeJohnette | 19.02.2016 | Forced Exposure | | | |
| 45. | Live: Tokyo '85 | 22.04.2016 | Hi Hat | | | |
| 46. | Boston Jazz Workshop, September 1976 | 26.08.2016 | Hi Hat | | | |
| 47. | From This Place | 2/2020 | Nonesuch | | 90 | 92 |
| 48. | Road To Te Sun | 3/2021 | Modern | | | |
| 49. | Side Eye NYC - V1.IV | 9/2021 | | | | |
| 50. | Dream Box | 6/2023 | | | | |
| 51. | MoonDial | 7/2024 | Modern | | | |
