[4] While based in Los Angeles, Bailey also worked as a sideman for musicians including Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Hampton Hawes, Kenny Burrell, and Red Mitchell.
[7][8] It features Charles Tolliver (trumpet), Odean Pope (tenor saxophone), George Burton (piano), and Tyrone Brown (bass).
Production and recording of the albums was helmed by Talking House producers Marc Weibel and Stephen Smith.
[10][11][12][13][14] Bailey's playing also featured on the soundtracks of the films Buck and the Preacher[15] and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
[16] Bailey performed around the San Francisco Bay Area[17] until his late seventies and moved to Montclair, California, shortly before his death at age 80 in October 2013.