Well, I know the definition, but I don't know how it came to be what it is, don' cha' know. (And yes, in my youth, the only gigging I knew applied to frogs and it wasn't very friendly, from a frog's point of view...)

In the "gig from Hell" thread, it seemed as though an equal number of postings came from our neighbors in other countries, so I wondered if it was an American jazz word that's made it around the world, or if it was a British term that bounced over here...

ww