Sam Butera, the accomplished jazz saxophonist who performed with Louis 

Prima's and Keely Smith's group the Witnesses, has died in Las Vegas 

at age 81. Here is the story from nola.com (Butera, like Prima, was a 

native of New Orleans):

http://blog.nola.com/keithspera/2009/06/sam_butera_former_louis_prima.html