To commemorate 20 years of success, Jarreau has now released his first-ever compilation album, Best Of Al Jarreau. The collection highlights 14 of Jarreau's best-known songs, alongside two new tracks produced by Jarreau's long-time friend, jazz giant George Duke.

Among the smash albums represented on Best Of Al Jarreau are 1976's Glow ("Agua De Beber"); 1977's Look To The Rainbow ("Take Five"); 1980's This Time ("Spain," "Never Givin' Up"); 1981's Breakin' Away ("Roof Garden," "We're In This Love Together"); 1983's Jarreau ('Mornin''," "Boogie Down"); 1984's High Crime ("After All"); 1988's Heart 's Horizon ("So Good") and Heaven And Earth ("Heaven And Earth").

Also included are such Al Jarreau gemstones as "Moonlighting," the theme from the hit TV series "Since I Fell For You," from the award-winning Double Vision album by Bob James and David Sanborn; and 'Like A Lover," the Don Caymmi/Alan & Marilyn Bergman tune first issued on the 1994 classical release; Symphonic Bossa featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Two newly recorded tracks include the classic Les McCann and Eddie Harris cut, "Compared To What," as well as a new Jarreau/Duke collaboration, "Goodhands Tonight."

The follow up to Breakin' Away, 1983's Jarreau, and High Crime (both gold) the following year, spawned a string of R&B and pop hits and further cemented Al Jarreau's reputation as an international superstar. Al Jarreau Live In London, recorded before an SRO crowd at Wembley Arena in 1985, continued to certify Jarreau as a world-class master of both studio and stage. Following the live album, Al Jarreau teamed with top producer Nile Rodgers for L is For Lover (another gold entry) which brought some fresh styles and sounds to the singer's repertoire. Al Jarreau continued to top the stateside charts in 1987 and became a weekly guest in America's living rooms, singing the Grammy- nominated theme song for the hit television series Moonlighting.

Al Jarreau's next gold album, Heart's Horizon, contained the #2 R&B smash "So Good" and earned him another Grammy nomination, this time for Best R&B Album. After touring the globe for nearly two years, Al Jarreau returned to the studio- this time with Narada Michael Walden- to fashion the sound that would launch him into his third decade of music-making. The result was 1992's Heaven and Earth, for which Al Jarreau received his fifth Grammy, this one for Best R&B Vocal Performance, becoming one of the few artists to have won Grammys in the three categories: jazz, pop, and R&B.

In 1994, Tenderness was released. On this Marcus Miller-produced gem, Al Jarreau was joined by an all-star cast (David Sanborn, Kathleen Battle, Joe Sample and Steve Gadd, to name a few). Together, they performed a host of familiar contemporary compositions, and revisited a few Jarreau standards.

1996 brought more exciting career challenges. While on a break from touring, Al Jarreau accepted a three-month stint on Broadway playing the role of the Teen Angel in the hit musical Grease! Other recent acting credits include guest star appearances on Fox's New York Undercover, NBC's Touched By An Angel, and a national McDonald's commercial with R&B sensation, Vesta Williams.

With his new release Best of Al Jaureau, he celebrates both the past and present and extends a promise that more of "the best" is yet to come.