Jiggs Whigham

A significant trombonist who’s quite versatile, Jiggs Whigham has so far not really received the recognition that he deserves, possibly because he has spent lots of time performing in Germany. After graduating from senior high school in 1961, Whigham became a member of the Glenn Miller Ghost Orchestra (beneath the path of Ray McKinley) and in 1963 joined up with the Stan Kenton Orchestra. In 1965, he resolved in Germany, originally to try out using the Kurt Edelhagen music group. When that orchestra split up, Whigham remained, working like a studio room musician, a freelance jazz performer, along with a teacher, learning to be a teacher at Cologne Conservatory in 1974. Over time, he has used Maynard Ferguson, Count number Basie, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Johnny Griffin, Freddie Hubbard, Artwork Farmer, Dexter Gordon, Lee Konitz, and Sarah Vaughan, among numerous others, and he documented Trombone Summit in the past due ’70s with Costs Watrous, Kai Winding, and Albert Mangelsdorff. Furthermore to recordings with Stan Kenton, Johnny Richards, George Gruntz, Costs Holman, as well as the Brass Connection, Whigham provides led periods of his very own for MPS (1971), Telefunken (1976, released domestically by Pausa), Koala (1982), and Capri (1989).