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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mmmm...think I'll just be by myself for a little while.

Toilet in a restaurant men's room, with a framed poster reading "...friends and family gather here..."

Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Come to the 48th COTA (Celebration of the Arts) Festival in Delaware Water Gap, PA, this Saturday and Sunday, 9/12 and 9/13, for an amazing weekend of music and community! I'll be playing with my quintet Saturday at 1:30pm, come say hi! For tickets and more info: cotajazz.org

Come to the 48th COTA (Celebration of the Arts) Festival in Delaware Water Gap, this Saturday and Sunday, 9/12 and 9/13, for an amazing weekend of music and community!

Created in 1978 by Phil Woods, Rick Chamberlain, and Ed Joubert, the COTA festival has united world-class musicians, performing artists, and visual artists with music and arts lovers from near and far.

For tickets and more info: https://cotajazz.org/

And if you make it for my set on Saturday (Art Bailey Quintet, 1:30pm), say hi!

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

GIG! Sunday 9/6 10pm Arthur's Tavern, 57 Grove St. NYC, Art Bailey Trio, Orion Turre d, Julian Smith b, me p and tunes. NO COVER!

Picture of the outside of Arthur's Tavern

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Whatever you say, "R.J" Vacuum. Pump. "SPECIALIST"

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

GIG ALERT! 4th Annual Lehigh Valley Jazz and Arts Festival Sat. 7/18 3pm, $10 suggested. Art Bailey Quartet, Chris Rogers tpt. Dan Wilkins sax, Tony Marino bs., Hugh Kline d., me on piano. 3pm, at the Icehouse 56 River St. Bethlehem PA. More details in poster below, and here's a video teaser...

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

GIG! GIG! GIG! Hitting at the legendary Deer Head Inn, Del. Water Gap, PA, July 5, 5pm. Miles Davis 100th Celebration with the Chris Rogers Quintet. $20 admission, $20 minimum.

GIG! GIG! GIG! Hitting at the legendary Deer Head Inn, July 5, 5pm. Miles Davis 100th Celebration with the Chris Rogers Quintet. $20 admission, $20 minimum.

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Football stadium vendor: "Aight, Sammy Two-Vests, no more beers for you." AI sucks and must be destroyed.

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Hey y'all. Arthur's Tavern, NYC, the cats will be wailin' TONIGHT into the A.M., 10-12:30, Art Bailey Trio-Orion Turre, d, Ian Kenselaar b., AB pno. No cover, drink minimum. Stay out late, call in sick Thursday, you hate your job anyway.

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Playing some tunes tonight with the fellas at Arthur's Tavern NYC. Adult hours, 10pm-12:30, Arthur's Tavern NYC, NO COVER, buy a couple three drinks. Orion Turre, d, Julian Smith, b, me on the faux elephant teeth. Here's a screenshot of Arthur's ca. 1984 from a Lennie Tristano doc on youtube.

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Got a gig offer to play a brunch for tips, in one of the wealthier towns in NY state, on one of the most lucrative days of the week for musicians, coming up on one of the most lucrative months. Response below. Pay artists for their work.

Since this is new, it will be tip-based

Tip-based, meaning that the musicians you hire will depend on tips to get paid?

I realize you simply shot this email out to anyone who ever sent you materials, without regard to how far away from Croton-on-Hudson they live.

It would involve a minimum of 3 hours of driving for me, total. Plus tolls. Gas is nearly $5 a gallon now. Then I'm expected to hope that enough rich people want to cough up enough nickels to cover my expenses? On a Saturday, the most lucrative night of the week, to boot? This is offensive. Even if I lived next door, it would still be offensive.

I took a look at your menu. No couple is getting out of your brunch without dropping over $125. The median income for a family in Croton-on-Hudson is over 250K. I'm sure you can find a couple hundred bucks to throw to the musicians.

Will you be getting paid a salary, or will you be begging for tips?

Will the waitstaff be getting paid a wage, or will their pay be "tip-based" since this is new? And, how do those two things equate? After it's not new, will you be paying musicians?

If the answer to the two questions above is "yes, the waitstaff and I are being paid a wage", why would you shaft artists? And I don't mean amateurs who are hungry for attention and willing to work for nothing, I mean trained professionals with many years experience. Professionals who depend on music for their livelihood. If you want substandard music for your brunch, you're setting yourself up to get just that.

Music is a profession. Pay musicians.

Art Bailey

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Easton PA! Tonight! Come on out to the best jazz bar in town for a night of great music. Art Bailey Quintet, Friday Mar 6 9-12. No cover, fine libations. Hope to see you there!

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Hey Easton PA and environs! Come on out to the best jazz bar in town for a night of great music. Art Bailey Quintet, Friday Mar 6 9-12. No cover, fine libations. Hope to see you there!

Hey Easton! Come on out to the best jazz bar in town for a night of great music. Art Bailey Quintet, Friday Mar 6 9-12. No cover, fine libations. Hope to see you there!

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

You will be visited by three spirits.

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Tonight! Tearing it up with the Adam Brenner Quartet. Adam, as, Tony Marino bs, Eliot Zigmund d, yours truly on the faux elephant teeth. Come on down.

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Easton, PA! Lafayette Bar! Friday 7/18 9-12 Dan Wilkins, ten, alt., leader, John Swana, EVI, vlv tbn, Art Bailey, pno.,Tony Marino bs., John Riley, d. 15 N 4th St. Come on out and tie one on. #eastonpa #lafayettebar

Gig poster for Dan Wilkins Quintet, depicting 5 very handsome fellas who will swing you into bad health.

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Luddites unite. Stole it from grandma in '93. It took a dive off a shelf, replaced the plastic, nicotine stained clock face, lens and knobs. What actually wakes me up is not the radio, but the nice, loud CHUNK of the switch. Then, speed metal on WFMU gradually fades in as the tubes warm up.

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

UA Captain Morgan: "Arrrr...we're all gonna die anyway...drink up, ye scurvy scalawag."

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Dude, it's perfectly safe to fly out of Newark. We're understaffed and using antiquated technology, but don't worry, the FAA has a plan...ha ha ha ha ha.

UA CEO Scott Kirby's personal email to little old me that it's perfectly safe to fly out of Newark. Nothing to worry about.

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Art Bailey ❌👑 @artbailey.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

UA Captain Morgan: "Drink up, sit down, shut up and hold on, ye scurvy scalawag..."

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