Sam Butera, 81, a saxophonist who played with jazz greats such as Ella Fitzgerald, Louie Bellson, and led the band of Louis Prima for 21 years, died June 3 in Las Vegas after battling Alzheimer's… By ...

Sam Butera, 81, a hard-swinging tenor saxophonist who formed a rowdy and successful onstage partnership with entertainers Louis Prima and Keely Smith in the 1950s, died June 3 at a hospital in Las ...

Sam Butera, photographed in his native New Orleans in 2002. Sam Butera, the hard-driving, hard-swinging New Orleans saxophonist who was Louis Prima's longtime musical partner, died Wednesday in Las ...

LAS VEGAS - Sam Butera, a saxophonist who helped usher in lounge entertainment in Las Vegas and shared the stage with Louis Prima and Keely Smith, has died. He was 81. Butera died Wednesday morning of ...

Sam Butera, whose saxophone kept the Strip swingin' for 50 years, died Wednesday in Las Vegas. He was 81. The Louis Prima band, with Butera as his saxophone sidekick, gave Las Vegas a distinctive ...

Music journalists near and far are mourning yesterday’s passing of Sam Butera, Louis Prima’s saxophonist sideman and praised secret weapon, who died in Las Vegas’ Sunrise Hospital from complications ...