Several Shades of Jade

Several Shades of Jade is a 1963 album by Cal Tjader arranged by Lalo Schifrin.[2] It peaked at 79 on the Billboard 200.[3]

Several Shades of Jade
Studio album by
Cal Tjader
Released1963
RecordedApril 23–25, 1963
GenreJazz
LabelVerve V6-8507[1]
Cal Tjader chronology
Soña Libré
(1963)		 Several Shades of Jade
(1963)		 Breeze from the East
(1964)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Stewart Mason reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that of Tjader and Schifrin's collaboration that it was "...no more traditional Asian music than Tjader's similar albums from this period are traditional Latin American music, but the pair wisely avoids the standard clichés of Asian music (no smashing gongs after every musical phrase or melodies that sound like rejects from The Mikado). Instead, Schifrin frames Tjader's meditative vibraphone solos in arrangements that strike a cool balance between western kitsch and eastern exotica, never tipping too far in either direction. ...Several Shades of Jade is actually an interesting experiment that succeeds more often than it fails."[2]

Track listing
  1. "The Fakir" (Lalo Schifrin)
  2. "Cherry Blossom" (Ronnell Bright)
  3. "Borneo" (Schifrin)
  4. "Tokyo Blues" (Horace Silver)
  5. "Song of the Yellow River" (Schifrin)
  6. "Sahib" (Stan Applebaum)
  7. "China Nights (Shina No Yoru)" (Yaso Saijo, Nobuyki Takeoka)
  8. "Almond Tree" (Schifrin)
  9. "Hot Sake" (Quincy Jones)

Personnel
Production

References
  1. "Cal Tjader – Several Shades of Jade". discogs.com. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  2. Several Shades of Jade at AllMusic
  3. Several Shades of Jade at AllMusic
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