Eric Revis

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Eric Revis (born May 31, 1967 in Los Angeles ) is an American jazz bassist.

At the age of fourteen Revis got an electric bass and learned the game on his own. After studying biology at Southern University for a year , he went to San Antonio / Texas , where he got to know jazz music and switched to acoustic bass. From 1991 to 1992 he studied with Ellis Marsalis , Harold Battiste and Victor Goines in New Orleans . Here he had the opportunity to play with musicians such as Brian Blade , Nicholas Payton , Chris Thomas, Mark Turner , Troy Davis , Peter Martin and Greg Tardy .

In 1994 Revis came to New York , where he became a member of Betty Carter's band. He also performed regularly with Kurt Rosenwinkel , Billy Harper , Aaron Parks , Louis Hays , Lionel Hampton , Tess Marsalis , Russell Gunn and others. In 1997 he met Branford Marsalis , to whose quartet he has belonged ever since. In 2004, Tales of the Stuttering Mime was released , his first album as a band leader.

Discography

  • Full Circle with Sherman Irby , 1997
  • Gunn Fu with Russell Gunn , 1997
  • Music Evolution with Buckshot Lefonque , 1997
  • Trap Dancer with Winard Harper , 1998
  • Young Gunn Plus with Russell Gunn, 1998
  • Citizen Tain with Jeff "Tain" Watts, 1999
  • Requiem with Branford Marsalis, 1999
  • Dark Grooves - Mystical Rhythms with James Hurt , 1999
  • Winard with Winard Harper, 1999
  • Love Requiem with Russell Gunn, 1999
  • In Search Of ... with JD Allen III , 1999
  • Love Stories with Frank McComb , 2000
  • World Jazz with Lara & Reyes, 2000
  • Smoking Gunn with Russell Gunn, 2000

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personal data
SURNAME Revis, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz bassist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles