Clifton "Jiggs" Chase (born 1940) is an American musician, composer, and influential record producer from New Jersey, United States.
Although his name is not widely recognized, his ground breaking rhythm track sequencing on "The Message",[2] by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, on which he has a co-writing credit,[3][4] helped propel hip hop into the future.
The stark synthesizer stabs echoing over the urban funk groove of "The Message" was the work of "Jiggs", who had been brought in to produce the track at the request of label boss Sylvia Robinson.
The original demo of "The Message" was written by Ed “Duke Bootee” Fletcher, a session percussionist for The Sugarhill Gang who came up with the hook "It's like a jungle sometimes".
Alongside contemporaries Herbie Hancock and Afrika Bambaataa, "Jiggs" contributed to hip hop's acoustic to electronic transformation.