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Saxophonist Sam Butera dead at 81
NEW YORK, June 5 (UPI) — Famed New Orleans-born jazz and R&B musician Sam Butera has died in Las Vegas his family said. He was 81.
Butera, who played saxophone with singer-songwriter-musician Louis Prima for more than 20 years and later became a successful bandleader, died Wednesday, The New York Times reported.
Butera began playing the saxophone when he was 7, became a professional musician at 14 when he was hired to perform in a strip club on Bourbon Street and won a talent contest sponsored by Look magazine when he was 19.
Having worked with the big bands of Ray McKinley, Tommy Dorsey and others, he formed his own group, which had a four-year residency at the 500 Club in New Orleans, the Times noted.

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