Sam Butera dead

[dipsydoodle]

That's for sure but I cannot find a decent link. Anyone got one ?

[dipsydoodle]

1. Link to confirm here

Jazz saxophonist Sam Butera dies.

Another link to Las Vegas’ storied past was cut Wednesday morning with the passing of legendary jazz saxophonist Sam Butera, sideman to another Vegas legend, Louis Prima.

Family friends said Butera died at about 6 a.m. at Sunrise Hospital, where he had been since early January suffering from the effects of Alzheimer's Disease.

Butera, who retired in 2004, would have been 82 in August.

Prima died at the age of 67 in 1978, three years after lapsing into a coma during surgery to remove a brain tumor.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jun/03/jazz-saxophonist-sam-butera-dies/

[Forkboy]

2. I was late to the jazz game.

Not a lot of overlap between jazz and punk, but when I did get into it Butera was one of the first performers that "hit" me, you know what I mean? I've always been a sucker for horns, so it was a natural (and when I heard Paul Gonsalves play I was well and truly hooked).

R.I.P. Sam.

[abq e streeter]

3. Sad to hear this ...used to do Prima's 5 Months 2 Weeks...in a rockabilly band

that also did swing and jump blues. I played sax , besides singing and harmonica in that band, and tried to learn as much as I could from listening to the old Prima stuff with Sam. Needless to say, to this day I haven't come within light years of being the player Sam Butera was, but I guess not many others did either.