On the album, Watts is joined by saxophonist, flutist, and bass clarinetist Byard Lancaster, cornetist and trombonist Clifford Thornton, guitarist Sonny Sharrock, vibraphonist Karl Berger, bassists Henry Grimes and Juney Booth, and drummer J. C. Moses.

[1][2][3] ESP-Disk owner Bernard Stollman stated that he initially knew Watts as an independent engineer who had his own recording studio.

"[7] Writing for Elsewhere, Graham Reid commented: "Astute observers will note the paralleling to some extent of Ornette Coleman's double-quintet line-up from Free Jazz, but also the inclusion of Sharrock, an incendiary player whose staccato firepower would go on to become a cornerstone of many free jazz albums.

"[9] Writer Raul Da Gama remarked: "It takes but one listening of his path-breaking album Marzette Watts & Company and it becomes patently clear that here is a musician gifted in both the aural and spectrally visual nature of music.

"[10] In a review for Offbeat, David Kunian commented: "Here, some of the lesser-known players of the avant-garde perform some great music together.