Along with Jobim's original compositions, the album features three standards from the Great American Songbook, ("Change Partners", "I Concentrate on You", and "Baubles, Bangles and Beads") arranged in the bossa nova style.

Jobim had to wait for Sinatra to return from a holiday in Barbados where he was taking a mutually agreed break from his marriage to Mia Farrow.

Dick Noel (tbn); Bud Shank, Buddy Collette, Arthur Gleghorn (sax/wwd); Nathan Ross, Israel Baker, Bernard Kundell, Anatol Kaminsky, Thelma Beach, Bonnie Douglas, Arnold Belnick, Emo Neufeld, Ralph Schaeffer, James Getzoff (vln); Nino Rosso, Kurt Reher, Elizabeth Greenschpoon, Ray Kramer (vlc); Bill Miller (p); Antonio Carlos Jobim (g/voc [l]); Ralph Pena (b); Irving Cottler, Dom Um Romão (d); Claus Ogerman (arr/cond).

Dick Noel (tbn); Bud Shank, Buddy Collette, Arthur Gleghorn (sax/wwd); Nathan Ross, Israel Baker, Bernard Kundell, Anatol Kaminsky, Thelma Beach, Bonnie Douglas, Arnold Belnick, Emo Neufeld, Ralph Schaeffer, James Getzoff (vln); Nino Rosso, Kurt Reher, Elizabeth Greenschpoon, Ray Kramer (vie); Bill Miller (p); Antonio Carlos Jobim (g, voe [1]); Al Viola (g); Ralph Pena (b); Irving Cottler (d); Colin Bailey (perc); Claus Ogerman (arr/cond).

Oliver Mitchell, Roy Caton (tpt); Dick Noel (tbn); Arthur Gleghorn (fl); Ronny Lang (clt); Bud Shank (fl); Nathan Ross, Thelma Beach, Bernard Kundell, Israel Baker, William Kurasch, Arnold Belnick, Bonnie Douglas, Emo Neufeld, James Getzoff, Ralph Schaeffer, Harry Bluestone, Anatol Kaminsky (vln); Nino Rosso, Ray Kramer, Armand Kaproff, Elizabeth Greenschpoon (vie); Bill Miller, Donald Owens (p); Antonio Carlos Jobim (g, voe [l]); Al Viola, Glen Campbell, Alvin Casey (g); Ralph Pena (b); Carol Kaye (el-b); Dom Um Romão, Irving Cottler, Hal Blaine, Eddie Brackett Jr., Victor Feldman (d/perc); Claus Ogerman (arr/cond).