| Several Shades of Jade | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Cal Tjader |
| Cover: | Several Shades of Jade.jpeg |
| Released: | 1963 |
| Recorded: | April 23–25, 1963 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Label: | Verve V6-8507[1] |
| Chronology: | Cal Tjader |
| Prev Title: | Soña Libré |
| Prev Year: | 1963 |
| Next Title: | Breeze from the East |
| Next Year: | 1964 |
Several Shades of Jade is a 1963 album by Cal Tjader arranged by Lalo Schifrin.It peaked at 79 on the Billboard 200.
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."