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Jazz flute and saxophone star Bud Shank, dies, aged 82, in San Diego, California, USA. Although a leading light in the West Coast jazz scene and a pioneer of the 60s samba-jazz craze, he is perhaps best-known to a wider public for his signature flute embellishments on the Mamas And The Papas summer anthem California Dreamin'.