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Track List: 1-3

1. Cal Tjader - The Fakir (0:00)
2. Cal Tjader - Cherry Blossoms (3:19)
3. Cal Tjader - Borneo (8:22)

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Review by Stewart Mason:
One of the most unique albums of Cal Tjader's career, 1963's Several Shades of Jade is a collaboration with composer and arranger Lalo Schifrin that transposes the vibraphonist's musical travels from Latin America to the Far East. This is no more traditional Asian music than Tjader's similar albums from this period are traditional Latin 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. Although the follow-up album, Breeze From the East, is rightfully panned by just about everyone whose idea of Asian music doesn't begin and end with the Vapors' "Turning Japanese," Several Shades of Jade is actually an interesting experiment that succeeds more often than it fails.

Personnel:
Cal Tjader – vibraphone
Lalo Schifrin – arranger, piano (track 3)
George Duvivier - bass
George Berg - bass clarinet, bassoon
Charles McCracken - cello (tracks 1, 2)
Jack Del Rio - congas, tambourine
Ed Shaughnessy - drums
Walt Levinsky - flute, woodwind
Robert Northern - French horn (tracks 3-9)
Jim Raney - guitar
Robert Maxwell - harp
Irving Horowitz, Leon Cohen - oboe
Johnny Rae - timbales, percussion
Urbie Green - trombone (tracks 3-9)
Clark Terry, Ernie Royal - trumpet (tracks 3-9)
Don Butterfield - tuba
Arnold Eidus, Emanuel Vardi, Leo Kruczek - violin (tracks 1, 2)
Phil Bodner, Stan Webb - woodwinds
Phil Kraus - xylophone (miscredited as a woodwind player on CD reissue)

Production:
John Murello – cover design
Irv Bahrt - cover photo
Chuck Stewart - liner photography
Bob Simpson – engineer
Val Valentin – director of engineering
Jack Maher – liner notes
Creed Taylor – producer