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Victor Bailey: Kid Logic

By Mike Jacobs
January 26, 2024
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The late

Victor Bailey

bass, electric
1960 - 2016

" data-original-title="" title="">Victor Bailey probably missed out on much of the acclaim he was due, first by having to succeed the legendary

Jaco Pastorius

bass, electric
1951 - 1987

" data-original-title="" title="">Jaco Pastorius in the Weather Report bass chair and then later being somewhat upstaged by another virtuosic bass-playing "Victor"—(

" data-original-title="" title="">Victor Wooten). But if Bailey was relegated to being the "other Victor," it wasn't for lack of talent. "Kid Logic" shows why the Philly native was ever on the A-list of those in the know.

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