Victor Bailey Super Session
Muse Hall
Osaka, JP
1987-11-16

Victor Bailey: Bass
Rodney Franklin: Keyboards
Leon "Ndugu" Chancler: Drums
Scott Henderson: Guitar
Bobby Thomas: Percussions

Source/lineage-Dime share ca.2010? of a VG+-EXC audience capture> EAC> Audacity> TLH> DIME

1-Kid Logic 9:38
2-Flip It (Flippin'?) 17:04
3-unknown 14:16
4-unknown 12:12
5-unknown 10:25
6-unknown 21:13
7-unknown 17:28

There was a recent share here from Ross (ledwhofloyd)of a Victor Bailey show performed in Europe in 2000. That got me looking at some Victor discs I'd had on hand, and brought this show to my attention. That was partially because it's just about the earliest post Weather Report/Update show I've seen with Victor. He was, of course, the very able replacement for Jaco Pastorius in the early 80's, and he'd appeared on all the Weather albums from Procession through This is This. Victor's first solo release came near to the timing of this Japanese show. It was an album called Bottoms Up, and I wondered if this show somehow tied in to that album. Many reading this will know that Ndugu had been on Weather Report's Tale Spinnin' album in the mid 70's before jumping ship for Santana and future studio work. Scott Henderson would also forge a Zawinul connection on the earliest Zawinul Syndicate albums recorded near to this time.
Other than Victor, and the track Kid Logic, I'd have to say it doesn't, although he's the guy speaking from the stage and he's the titular leader if in fact this was called the "Victor Bailey Super Session". I can't ID any of the 5 "unknowns" here as Victor's own tracks, and they may well come from then current releases from Scott Henderson or Rodney Franklin. If anyone can place them, please indicate that in the comments below. I searched both etree and the dimebot archive for more details on this show, and it's not in many etree collections, and only appears in a kinebee share from 2010 here, although his notes allude to a possible earlier mr.mags share that's not seen in the archive. I presumably got this in either kinebee's or an earlier DIME share, so thanks to whoever had this up at the time I grabbed it.
There was no info about the recording equipment used, but it nicely captured the music with good details. Tools from Audacity were lightly applied to this new share to bring out a little more depth than had once been there (were DAT's used in Japan in 1987, because it sounds like this might've come from one). This had been tracked TAO at one point, so there were short gaps between tracks that now have been repaired, along with a digital glitch in track 5. There still will be occasional chatter in Japanese, and some sort of bumping sound that will be heard in the quieter sections.
You can find a youtube audio share from this same ensemble of a slightly longer show a few days earlier than this at Tokyo's Roppongi Pit Inn. That would suggest that there may have been some other Japanese dates too at that point. If anyone has more info about these circumstances, please share them below.