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

Track listing:
“The Fakir” (Lalo Schifrin)
“Cherry Blossom” (Ronnell Bright)
“Borneo” (Schifrin)
“Tokyo Blues” (Horace Silver)
“Song of the Yellow River” (Schifrin)
“Sahib” (Stan Applebaum)
“China Nights (Shina No Yoru)” (Yaso Saijo, Nobuyki Takeoka)
“Almond Tree” (Schifrin)
“Hot Sake” (Quincy Jones)

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)

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Released: 1963
Recorded: April 23–25, 1963
Label: Verve V6-8507