Eric Revis
Eric Sebastian Revis (born May 31, 1967) is a jazz bassist and composer. Revis came to prominence as a bassist with singer Betty Carter in the mid-1990s. Since 1997 he has been a member of Branford Marsalis's ensemble.
Eric Revis

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- Name
- Eric Revis
- Born
- 31 May 1967
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Occupation
- Musician, composer
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- jazz · post-bop
- Education
- St. Mary's University
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Eric Sebastian Revis (born May 31, 1967) is a jazz bassist and composer. Revis came to prominence as a bassist with singer Betty Carter in the mid-1990s. Since 1997 he has been a member of Branford Marsalis's ensemble.
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• Name — Eric Revis • Born — 31 May 1967 • Birthplace — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Genre — Jazz • Occupation — Musician, composer • Instrument — Double bass • Years Active — 1990s–present • Label — Clean Feed, Not Two, Pyroclastic • Website — www.ericrevis.com
As leader
As leader
• Tales of the Stuttering Mime (11:11, 2004) • Laughter's Necklace of Tears (11:11, 2009) • Parallax (Clean Feed, 2012) • City of Asylum (Clean Feed, 2013) • In Memory of Things Yet Seen (Clean Feed, 2014) • Crowded Solitudes (Clean Feed, 2016) • Sing Me Some Cry (Clean Feed, 2017) • Slipknots Through a Looking Glass (Pyroclastic, 2020) With Tarbaby • Tarbaby (Imani 2009) • The End of Fear (Posi-Tone 2010) • Ballad of Sam Langford (Hipnotic, 2013) • Fanon (RogueArt, 2013) • Dance of the Evil Toys (Clean Feed, 2022) • You Think This America (Giant Step Arts, 2024)
As sideman
As sideman
With J. D. Allen • In Search of (Red Record, 1999) • Pharoah's Children (Criss Cross, 2001) With Orrin Evans • Blessed Ones (Criss Cross, 2001) • Meant to Shine (Palmetto, 2002) • Easy Now (Criss Cross, 2005) •...It Was Beauty (Criss Cross, 2013) • The Intangible Between (Smoke Sessions, 2020) With Avram Fefer • Calling All Spirits (Cadence, 2001) • Ritual (Clean Feed, 2009) • Eliyahu (Not Two, 2011) • Testament (Clean Feed, 2019) With Russell Gunn • Gunn Fu (HighNote, 1997) • Young Gunn Plus (32 Jazz, 1998) • Love Requiem (HighNote, 1999) • SmokinGunn (HighNote, 2000) • Blue On the D.L. (HighNote, 2002) With Branford Marsalis • Music Evolution (Columbia, 1997) • Requiem (Columbia, 1999) • Contemporary Jazz (Columbia, 2000) • Footsteps of Our Fathers (Marsalis Music/Rounder, 2002) • Romare Bearden Revealed (Marsalis Music/Rounder, 2003) • Performs Coltrane's Love Supreme Live in Amsterdam (Marsalis Music/Rounder, 2004) • Eternal (Rounder 2004) • Braggtown (Marsalis Music/Rounder, 2006) • Classic (Sony, 2008) • American Spectrum (BIS, 2009) • Metamorphosen (Marsalis Music, 2009) • Four MFs Playin' Tunes (Marsalis Music, 2012) • Upward Spiral (Marsalis Music, 2016) • The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul (Marsalis Music, 2019) With Armen Nalbandian • Quiet as It's Kept (Blacksmith Brother, 2011) • Fire Sign (Blacksmith Brother, 2018) • Orbits (Blacksmith Brother, 2018) • Live in Little Tokyo (Blacksmith Brother, 2018) • V (Blacksmith Brother, 2018) • The Holy Ghost (Blacksmith Brother, 2018) • Live on Sunset (Blacksmith Brother, 2019) • Ghosts (Blacksmith Brother, 2019) With Ralph Peterson Jr. • The Art of War (Criss Cross, 2001) • Subliminal Seduction (Criss Cross, 2002) • Tests of Time (Criss Cross, 2003) With others • Avishai Cohen, Into the Silence (ECM, 2016) • Steve Coleman, Weaving Symbolics (Label Bleu, 2006) • Kat Edmonson, Take to the Sky (Convivium, 2009) • Winard Harper, Trap Dancer (Savant, 1998) • Winard Harper, Winard (Savant, 1999) • Sherman Irby, Full Circle (Blue Note, 1997) • James Hurt, Dark Grooves, Mystical Rhythms (Blue Note 1999) • David Kikoski, Mostly Standards (Criss Cross, 2009) • Victor Lewis, Red Stars (Red Record, 2004) • Michael Marcus, The Magic Door (Not Two, 2007) • Delfeayo Marsalis, Minions Domain (Troubadour Jass, 2006) • Frank McComb, Love Stories (Columbia, 2000) • Bill McHenry, La Peur Du Vide (Sunnyside, 2012) • Bill McHenry, Ben Entrada La Nit (Fresh Sound, 2018) • Raul Midon, State of Mind (Manhattan, 2005) • Kurt Rosenwinkel, Reflections (Wommusic, 2009) • Kurt Rosenwinkel, Star of Jupiter (Wommusic, 2012) • J. D. Walter, One Step Away (JWALREC, 2013) • Jeff "Tain" Watts, Detained at the Blue Note (Half Note, 2004)
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DVD
• 2004 - Coltrane's A Love Supreme Live in Amsterdam (Branford Marsalis Quartet)
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