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  • Sam Butera dies at 81; 1950s-'60s tenor saxophonist

    06/05/2009 2:11:15 PM PDT · by scott says · 27 replies · 747+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | June 5, 2009 | Adam Bernstein
    Sam Butera, a hard-swinging tenor saxophonist who formed a rowdy and successful onstage partnership with entertainers Louis Prima and Keely Smith in the 1950s, died Wednesday at a hospital in Las Vegas. He was 81. He had Alzheimer's disease, according to a report in the Las Vegas Sun. Prima, nearly 20 years older than Butera, was a composer ("Sing, Sing, Sing"), trumpeter, singer and irrepressible stage performer, a combination of Louis Armstrong and Jerry Lewis. His career was on the wane when he teamed in 1954 with Butera, who a few years earlier had been named the country's outstanding teenage...