A longtime jazz musician who was busted for heroin possession in the wake of the apparent fatal overdose of Philip Seymour Hoffman was granted bail Friday.
Robert Vineberg, 57, who was once on tour with Wyclef Jean and played on an Amy Winehouse album, sat glumly in Manhattan Supreme Court as a judge gave him a bail of $200,000 bond or $40,000 cash.
His attorney, Edward Kratt, pleaded for lower bail, calling Vineberg an “accomplished musician” who has “been in the business since the late 1980s and has been associated with some really great musicians.”
He said he’s a “heroin addict and has been a consistent user of heroin for a long period of time.”
