Effective period / Period of releases: 1962 - 1996

Members: Howard Roberts, Victor Feldman, Laurindo Almeida, Shelly Manne, Jimmy Rowles, Don Fagerquist, Bob Cooper, Chico Guerrero, Milt Holland, Justin Gordon, Anthony Corbett

Group built by Capitol Records in order to support Laurindo Almeida with some of the best sideman of the jazz scene of the time: Shelly Manne, Justin Gordon, Jimmy Rowles, Howard Roberts, Don Fagerquist, Bob Cooper, Max Bennett, Chico Guerrero, Milt Holland (replaced by Victor Feldman within It's A Bossa Nova World: International Hits In Jazz Samba Arrangements recording session), Al Viola.