Jiggs Whigham – Jiggs’ Back in Town (2022) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Jiggs Whigham – Jiggs’ Back in Town (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:04 minutes | 866 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Whigham had piano and harmony lessons at the Cleveland Institute of Music from the age of seven. He started playing the trombone at the age of eleven; he was already engaged for concerts and even recordings during his school years. Already at the age of 17 he was the first solo trombonist of the Glenn Miller Orchestra under Ray McKinley, two years later with Stan Kenton. He also studied composition in Cleveland.After one year of engagements in New York studios and Broadway musicals, he came to Germany in 1965 as a soloist with Kurt Edelhagen’s jazz Orchestra at the WDR in Cologne. He received the first prize in 1966 at the first competition for Modern Jazz in Vienna. Since the 1970s he played with Peter Herbolzheimer’s Rhythm Combination & Brass. in 1971 he released his first album under his own name, Values with George Gruntz, J.A. Rettenbacher and Tony Inzalaco[2]. His second album Hope with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Rob Franken, Ferdinand Povel and Grady Tate was released in 1976.[3] In 1989 he recorded the album The Jiggs Up with guest musicians such as Bud Shank, George Cables, John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton. From 1971 to 1981 he worked regularly with The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band.

in 1979 he became professor and head of the jazz department at the University of Music in Cologne. At the end of the 1970s, Jiggs Whigham formed the Trombone Summit group together with trombonists Bill Watrous, Albert Mangelsdorff and Kai Winding, with whom he made a recording for the German label MPS in 1980. From 1980 to 1985 he led the Big Band of the University of Siegen.[4] in 1982 he worked with the WDR Big Band and recorded the album The Third Stone, with arrangements by Bill Holman. Between 1988 and 1992 he toured several times with a band led by Bud Shank (The Jiggs Up, 1989). From 1995 to autumn 2006 Jiggs Whigham was professor and head of the Department of Popular Music at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin and its spin-off Jazz-Institut Berlin. He also led the RIAS Big Band Berlin from 1995 to 2000. Whigham currently leads the BBC Big Band in London, the Landesjugendjazzorchester Brandenburg (LaJJazzo)[5] and – together with Niels Klein – the Bundesjazzorchester.

Based on his experience as an educator, instrumentalist, bandleader and arranger, Jiggs Whigham has published numerous books and sheet music editions, including Jazz trombone Concepts, Ideas and Exercises (London 2006, German as Jazz trombone Concepts, Playing Techniques, Exercises, Mainz 2007, Schott), Basic Steps – warm-up, phrasing and stylistics for winds (Mainz 2011, together with Renold Quade and Bernhard G. Hofmann), Suite for trombone and piano (Mainz 2011) and Hills for alto or tenor saxophone (trumpet in Bb) and piano (Mainz 2012).

Tracklist:

1-1. Jiggs Whigham – It Had To Be You (06:24)
1-2. Jiggs Whigham – Lulu’s Back in Town (04:42)
1-3. Jiggs Whigham – I’m In The Mood For Love (08:17)
1-4. Jiggs Whigham – Invitation (06:36)
1-5. Jiggs Whigham – Dindi (05:37)
1-6. Jiggs Whigham – Blue Funk (05:43)
1-7. Jiggs Whigham – Tea For Two (05:17)
1-8. Jiggs Whigham – Embraceble You (08:24)

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