Victor Bailey is an American

United States

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 bass guitar

Bass guitar

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 player. He was the bass player for Weather Report

Weather Report

Weather Report was an American jazz-rock band of the 1970s and early 1980s. The band was co-led by the Austrian-born keyboard player Joe Zawinul and the American saxophonist Wayne Shorter...

 during their final years from 1982 to 1986, and launched a solo career in 1988.

Bailey attended the Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...

 in Boston

Boston

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 after being disqualified from naval service due to asthma.

As musician

Bailey has recorded and/or toured with Omar Hakim

Omar Hakim

Omar Hakim is an American jazz, jazz fusion and pop music drummer.Hakim credits jazz vibraphonist Mike Mainieri with giving him his first break in 1980; Hakim appeared in a video with Mainieri called The Jazz Life and began working with singer Carly Simon through Mainieri...

, Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins

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, Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba

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, Larry Coryell

Larry Coryell

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, Lenny White

Lenny White

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, Mike Stern

Mike Stern

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, Dennis Chambers

Dennis Chambers

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, Poogie Bell, Weather Report

Weather Report

Weather Report was an American jazz-rock band of the 1970s and early 1980s. The band was co-led by the Austrian-born keyboard player Joe Zawinul and the American saxophonist Wayne Shorter...

, Michael Brecker

Michael Brecker

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, LL Cool J

LL Cool J

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, Kenny Garrett

Kenny Garrett

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, Jim Beard

Jim Beard

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, David Gilmore

David Gilmore

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, Lady Gaga

Lady GaGa

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, Madonna

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, Mary J Blige, Steps Ahead

Steps Ahead

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, Sting, Hamiet Bluiet, Olu Dara

Olu Dara

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, Don Alias

Don Alias

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, Sadao Watanabe

Sadao Watanabe (musician)

is an influential Japanese jazz musician who plays the alto saxophone, sopranino saxophone and flute. He is known for his Bossa Nova recordings, although his work encompasses a large range of styles with collaborations from musicians all over the world. Sadao first began learning music at the age...

, Michael Urbaniak, Ursula Dudziak, Roy Haynes

Roy Haynes

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, Tom Browne, Bobby Broom

Bobby Broom

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, Kenny Kirkland

Kenny Kirkland

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, Bernard Wright

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, Donald Blackman, Rene McClean, Kevin Eubanks

Kevin Eubanks

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, Tommy Campbell, Kenwood Dennard, Delmar Brown, Najee

Najee

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, Bennie Maupin

Bennie Maupin

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, Patrice Rushen

Patrice Rushen

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, Rayford Griffin and Nick Smith

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, Scott Peaker and David Fiuczynski

David Fiuczynski

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 among others.

Gear

Fender

Fender

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 has released a Victor Bailey Signature acoustic bass guitar

Acoustic bass guitar

The acoustic bass guitar is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually somewhat larger than a steel-string acoustic guitar...

, as well as the Victor Bailey Jazz Bass (Artist series), available in 4, 5-string, fretted and fretless versions.
Bailey also uses Hartke

Hartke

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 amplifiers.

Discography

• Bottom's Up, 1989
• Petite Blonde
  Petite Blonde
  Petite Blonde is the name of a live jazz collaboration album. It features Victor Bailey on bass, Dennis Chambers on drums, Mitch Forman on keyboards, Chuck Loeb on guitar, and Bill Evans on saxophone . It was recorded live on July 4, 1992 at the Neuwied Jazzfestival and on July 14, 1992 at The...
  
  , 1992 (live album, collaboration with Dennis Chambers
  Dennis Chambers
  Dennis Chambers is an American drummer who has recorded and performed with John Scofield, George Duke, Brecker Brothers, Santana, Parliament/Funkadelic, John McLaughlin, Niacin, Mike Stern, Greg Howe, and many others. Despite a lack of formal training, Chambers has become well known among...
  
  , Mitch Forman
  Mitchel Forman
  Mitchel Forman is a jazz and fusion keyboard player currently residing in Southern California.-Biography & Music Career:...
  
  , Chuck Loeb
  Chuck Loeb
  Chuck Loeb is a guitarist who performs numerous styles of music, most notably jazz. Loeb's own solo projects have generally been commercially successful crossover jazz, which has "contemporary" or "smooth" jazz....
  
  , and Bill Evans
  Bill Evans (saxophonist)
  Bill Evans is an American jazz saxophonist. His father was a classical piano prodigy and until junior high school Evans studied classical clarinet. Early in his studies he was able to hear such artists as Sonny Stitt and Stan Getz live at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago...
  
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• Low Blow, 1999
• That's Right, 2001
• Slippin' N' Trippin, 2010