Eric Revis (born May 31, 1967) is a

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bassist and

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. Revis came to prominence as a bassist with singer

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in the mid-1990s. Since 1997 he has been a member of

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's ensemble. His debut album, ''Tales of the Stuttering Mime'', was released in 2004 on his own 11:11 Records. Revis studied under Ellis Marsalis at the University of New Orleans and at

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. He directed the Jazz Ensemble at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas in 2007 and 2008.

Discography

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) * ''Fanon'' (

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, 2013) * ''Ballad of Sam Langford'' (Hipnotic, 2013)

As sideman

With J. D. Allen * ''In Search of'' (Red Record, 1999) * ''Pharoah's Children'' (Criss Cross, 2001) * ''I Am I Am'' (Sunnyside, 2008) With

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* ''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

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* ''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

* ''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. Ralph Peterson Jr. (May 20, 1962 – March 1, 2021) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Early life Four of Peterson's uncles and his grandfather were drummers. Peterson himself began on percussion at age three. He was raised in Pleasan ...

* ''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 Steve Coleman (born September 20, 1956) is an American saxophonist, composer, bandleader and music theorist. In 2014, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. Early life Steve Coleman was born and grew up in South Side, Chicago. He started playing al ...

, ''Weaving Symbolics'' (Label Bleu, 2006) *

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, ''Take to the Sky'' (Convivium, 2009) *

Winard Harper Hiram Winard Harper (born June 4, 1962) is an American jazz drummer. Career Harper played in the 1980s with Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, and with Betty Carter for four years. While working with Carter he met Wycliffe Gordon, with whom Harper ...

, ''Trap Dancer'' (Savant, 1998) * Winard Harper, ''Winard'' (Savant, 1999) * Sherman Irby, ''Full Circle'' (Blue Note, 1997) *

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, ''Dark Grooves, Mystical Rhythms'' (Blue Note 1999) *

David Kikoski Dave Kikoski (born September 29, 1961) is an American jazz pianist and keyboardist. Biography Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Kikoski learned piano from his father and played with him in bars as a teenager. He studied at the Berklee College ...

, ''Mostly Standards'' (Criss Cross, 2009) *

Victor Lewis Victor Lewis (born May 20, 1950) is an American jazz drummer, composer, and educator. Early life Victor Lewis was born on May 20, 1950 in Omaha, Nebraska. His father, Richard Lewis, who played saxophone and mother, Camille, a pianist-vocalist ...

, ''Red Stars'' (Red Record, 2004) * Michael Marcus, ''The Magic Door'' (Not Two, 2007) *

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, ''Minions Domain'' (Troubadour Jass, 2006) *

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, ''Love Stories'' (Columbia, 2000) *

Bill McHenry Bill McHenry (born 1972) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He is the leader of the Bill McHenry Quartet and has released over a dozen albums under his own name, in addition to collaborating on many more. Early life McHenry was born i ...

, ''La Peur Du Vide'' (Sunnyside, 2012) * Bill McHenry, ''Ben Entrada La Nit'' (Fresh Sound, 2018) * Raul Midon, '' State of Mind'' (Manhattan, 2005) *

Kurt Rosenwinkel Kurt Rosenwinkel (born October 28, 1970) is an American jazz guitarist, keyboardist, composer, bandleader, producer, educator and record label owner. Biography A native of Philadelphia, Rosenwinkel attended the Philadelphia High School for the ...

, '' Reflections'' (Wommusic, 2009) * Kurt Rosenwinkel, '' Star of Jupiter'' (Wommusic, 2012) *

J. D. Walter J.D. Walter (born July 2, 1967 in Abington, Pennsylvania) is a jazz vocalist. Career Walter grew up in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Beginning in 1985, he studied jazz vocals at the University of North Texas, then the Conservatory for the Arts in Am ...

, ''One Step Away'' (JWALREC, 2013) *

Jeff "Tain" Watts Jeff "Tain" Watts (born January 20, 1960) is a jazz drummer who has performed with Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Betty Carter, Michael Brecker, Alice Coltrane, Ravi Coltrane, and others. Biography Watts got the nickname "Tain" from Kenny ...

, ''Detained at the Blue Note'' (Half Note, 2004)

DVD

*2004 - ''Coltrane's A Love Supreme Live in Amsterdam'' (

Quartet)

References

External links

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