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Jiggs Whigham is an American jazz trombonist living in Europe. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he began his professional career at age 17, joining the Glenn Miller/Ray McKinley orchestra in 1961. He left that band for Stan Kenton, where he played in the touring 'mellophonium' band in 1963, then settled in New York to play commercially. Frustrated with commercial playing, Whigham migrated to Germany, where he still lives, He taught at the Hochschule f