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.
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)
Note
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