AARON WEINSTEIN 'The Funniest Violinist Since Jack Benny' At The Colony
By: Beau Higgins Dec. 15, 2011
The Colony Hotel, Palm Beach Continues Cabaret Season with Jazz Violinist Aaron Weinstein - December 20-24
"The Funniest Violinist Since Jack Benny"
The Colony Hotel continues its Cabaret Season with a Royal Room debut:
December 20-24
Named a "rising star violinist" by Downbeat Magazine, Aaron Weinstein is quickly earning a reputation as one of the finest jazz violinists of his generation. As a featured soloist, he has performed at Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wolftrap Center for the Performing Arts, Birdland, Blue Note the Iridium, and abroad at jazz festivals in England, France, Switzerland, Iceland, and Israel. Mr. Weinstein performed and recorded with an array of jazz icons including: Les Paul, Bucky Pizzarelli, John Pizzarelli, Scott Hamilton, Dick Hyman, Dave Frishberg, Ken Peplowski, Houston Person, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross. He has written arrangements for artists including Janis Siegel, Michael Feinstein, Billy Stritch, and Hilary Kole, is a New York Nightlife Award winner and recent graduate of the Berklee College of Music where he was awarded a full four-year talent-based scholarship.
Reviews of Aaron Weinstein:
+ Bucky Pizzarelli: “He is one in a million, this kid… a perfect musician. He is always coming up with something different just when you think you know everything he does,”
+ Tony Bennett: “The Groucho of the violin.”
+ Jim Caruso: “He knows how to entertain! He knows from Jack Benny, he knows from Woody Allen. He’s a little bit vaudeville and a touch Borscht Belt…”
+ Stephen Holden, The New York Times: “A sensation talent in the tradition of Stéphanie Grappelli and Joe Venuti. Mr. Weinstein is an inventive melodic improviser who doesn’t go in for flashy gymnastic flourishes. He turned ‘Just One of Those Things’ into a mini-marathon of swinging endurance, at the end of which you were left a little breathless.”
$115 for prix fixe dinner and show; $60 show only. (561) 659-8100
For all cabaret performances in The Colony’s plush Royal Room, doors open at 6 p.m. for cocktails with dinner seating from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. A memorable three-course prix fixe dinner is offered at $55, as well as an a la carte menu of small plates and delicious entrees and specialty desserts from Polo Steaks and Seafood. There is no service during the cabaret performance that starts at 8:30 p.m.
To make reservations, call the hotel box-office at 561.659.8100. The Colony is located at 155 Hammon Avenue in Palm Beach, just one block south of Worth Avenue, one block west of the Atlantic Ocean.
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