Eric Revis

Eric Revis (Los Angeles, 31 maggio 1967) è un contrabbassista e compositore statunitense. Revis è diventato famoso come contrabbassista per la cantante Betty Carter a metà degli anni '90. Dal 1997 è membro dell'ensemble di Branford Marsalis. Il suo album di debutto, Tales of the Stuttering Mime, fu pubblicato nel 2004 per la sua etichetta, 11:11 Records.

Eric Revis
Nazionalità	Stati Uniti
Genere	Jazz
Periodo di attività musicale	anni 1990 – in attività
Strumento	Contrabbasso
Etichetta	Clean Feed, Not Two, Pyroclastic
Sito ufficiale

Revis ha studiato con Ellis Marsalis all'Università di New Orleans e alla St. Mary's University, Texas. Ha diretto il Jazz Ensemble presso la Trinity University di San Antonio, in Texas, nel 2007 e nel 2008.

Discografia

Come 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)

Con Tarbaby

• Tarbaby (Imani 2009)
• The End of Fear (Posi-Tone 2010)
• Fanon (RogueArt, 2013)
• Ballad of Sam Langford (Hipnotic, 2013)

Come sideman

Con J.D. Allen

• In Search of (Red Record, 1999)
• Pharoah's Children (Criss Cross, 2001)
• I Am I Am (Sunnyside, 2008)

Con 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)

Con Avram Fefer

• Calling All Spirits (Cadence, 2001)
• Ritual (Clean Feed, 2009)
• Eliyahu (Not Two, 2011)
• Testament (Clean Feed, 2019)

Con 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)

Con 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)

Con 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)

Con Ralph Peterson Jr.

• The Art of War (Criss Cross, 2001)
• Subliminal Seduction (Criss Cross, 2002)
• Tests of Time (Criss Cross, 2003)

Con altri

• Avishai Cohen, Into the Silence (ECM, 2016)
• Steve Coleman, Weaving Symbolics (Etichetta 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, Riflessioni (Wommusic, 2009)
• Kurt Rosenwinkel, Star of Jupiter (Wommusic, 2012)
• JD Walter, Un passo lontano (JWALREC, 2013)
• Jeff "Tain" Watts, detenuto al Blue Note (Half Note, 2004)

DVD

• 2004 - Coltrane's A Love Supreme Live in Amsterdam (Branford Marsalis Quartet)

Collegamenti esterni

• Sito ufficiale, su ericrevis.com.
• (EN) Eric Revis, su Discogs, Zink Media.
• (EN) Eric Revis, su MusicBrainz, MetaBrainz Foundation.