Several Shades of Jade

Several Shades of Jade
Studio album by Cal Tjader
Released	1963
Recorded	April 23–25, 1963
Genre	Jazz
Label	Verve V6-8507[1]
Cal Tjader chronology
Soña Libré (1963) Several Shades of Jade (1963) Breeze from the East (1964)

Several Shades of Jade is a 1962 album by Cal Tjader arranged by Lalo Schifrin.^[2] It peaked at 79 on the Billboard 200.^[3]

Reception

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

Personnel

• Cal Tjader – vibraphone
• Lalo Schifrin – arranger

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