1. Jiggs Whigham was born on Oliver Haydn Whigham III; August 20,1943 and is an American jazz trombonist.
12 Facts About Jiggs Whigham
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Jiggs Whigham left that band for Stan Kenton, where he played in the touring "mellophonium" band in 1963, then settled in New York City to play commercially.
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Frustrated with commercial playing, Whigham migrated to Germany, where he still lives.
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Jiggs Whigham taught at the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin.
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Jiggs Whigham played for many years in the big band of Kurt Edelhagen, was a featured soloist in the Bert Kaempfert orchestra, and was a member of the Peter Herbolzheimer band.
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In more recent years, Jiggs Whigham has been musical director of the RIAS Big Band in Berlin, Germany.
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Jiggs Whigham is formerly conductor of the BBC Big Band in Great Britain and currently co-director of the Berlin Jazz Orchestra with singer Marc Secara.
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Jiggs Whigham is featured on the Berlin Jazz Orchestra albums Update, You're Everything, Songs of Berlin and music DVD Strangers In Night - The Music Of Bert Kaempfert.
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Jiggs Whigham was visiting tutor and artist at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and KUG in Graz, Austria.
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Jiggs Whigham is artist-in-residence for the Conn-Selmer company, maker of the King Jiggs Whigham model trombone.
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Jiggs Whigham continues to tour worldwide as soloist, conductor, and educator.
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Jiggs Whigham makes his home in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Germany and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.