Dave Peyton

There is irony as heavy as a fully stuffed sack of laundry in the career of pianist, arranger and songwriter Dave Peyton. Here is an artist who gave up on the music business in the '50s, despite having co-written several enormous hits including the standard "I Ain't Got Nobody." The most obvious irony lies in the fact that his new business was a dry cleaning establishment, the logical choice for a player whose professional career began in a trio led by a reed player named Wilbur Sweatman. Furthermore, one of Peyton's musically related enterprises prior to the '50s was toiling...