Marcus Watson

former @REDEFrecords ninja, aspiring beat maker/producer, & music lover.

[Marcus Watson @REDEF_marc]

@tionneparris 🔥🔥🔥

[Sonny Rollins @sonnyrollins]

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2 https://t.co/6AGmFrB7x4

[Marcus Watson @REDEF_marc]

@ToddStevenBurr1 Seems like Jesse Jackson Jr. may do it according to his convo w/ Dr. Horne @1:04:25 https://t.co/FJ7FlpFH1w

[Marcus Watson @REDEF_marc]

@drcbs_ 😂

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Every time I see Miles Davis, I reminded of this excerpt

[Marcus Watson @REDEF_marc]

@j_hero_d

[Marcus Watson @REDEF_marc]

@IamCJ_27

[Yuie @YusufYuie]

I can’t talk music with you.
If you don’t study.

[New York Amsterdam News @NYAmNews]

OP-ED: "#Assata was our freedom fighter. A soldier in the Black Liberation Army, a member of the original Black Panther Party when it defended the existential integrity of the Black community." - Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, Black Liberation Army Co-Founder https://t.co/o6bemMRT39

[Franck Biyong @franckbiyong1]

Cecil Taylor & Max Roach

[Marcus Watson @REDEF_marc]

@DOmowale (1860) H. Ford Douglas, “I Do Not Believe in the Antislavery of Abraham Lincoln” https://t.co/z5ko4vusY1

https://t.co/Rks2N61FPh

[Marcus Watson @REDEF_marc]

@IamCJ_27 The one day I miss the live niggas got Baba Dhoruba on 😭

[Okayplayer @okayplayer]

💿 25 years ago today, @missjillscott dropped ‘Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds Vol.1’ A soulful love letter to Black womanhood, romance, and resilience. Salute to Jilly from Philly. 💐

[Marcus Watson @REDEF_marc]

@hofrench https://t.co/vJCoD3DvCn

[Marcus Watson @REDEF_marc]

@tionneparris 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿✊🏿🔥

[The Jazz Estate @thejazzestate]

Remembering the great Sun Ra who was born on this day in 1914. Known for its innovative instrumentation and the theatricality of its performances, Ra led “The Arkestra”, an ensemble with an ever-changing name and flexible line-up.

The Arkestra, which included dancers, dressed in fantastical costumes inspired by ancient Egyptian attire and the space age, and Sun Ra conducted while wearing flowing robes and futuristic helmets. He was highly regarded for his atonal solos on synthesizer, an instrument that he virtually pioneered in jazz. After the Arkestra moved to New York about 1960, he became wholly involved with free jazz; he dispensed with composition entirely, creating works by conducting his improvisers.

Sun Ra’s philosophy was a blend of Afrofuturism, mysticism, and radical Black liberation. He believed that Black people needed to transcend the confines of Earth and its oppressive history by embracing an alternate reality rooted in space, myth, and sound. Drawing on Egyptian mythology, science fiction, and spiritual jazz, Sun Ra positioned music as a vehicle for transformation and escape—a way to rewrite history and imagine a freer future.

Here, he is performing “Enlightenment” with his Intergalactic Arkestra live in 1969.

[Jazz Is Dead @jazzisdeadco]

111 years ago today, the intergalactic bandleader Sun Ra was born. Today we celebrate his cosmic legacy. ✨

📽️: A clip from 1974’s Space Is The Place via @thejazzestate

#sunra #spaceistheplace #jazzisdead

[Jazz Is Dead @jazzisdeadco]

Bobbi Humphrey performing on PBS Soul! episode titled "The Blue Note Show" circa 1972.

#jazzisdead

[Brownsville Ka Bars @DailyKaBars]

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the release of the album "Days With Dr. Yen Lo", the collaborative work between Ka and Preservation under his name Dr. Yen Lo.

[Warp Records @WarpRecords]

15 years inside the codex, @flyinglotus

‘Cosmogramma’ [WARP195] released May 2010.