User:Gyrofrog

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About me
Interested parties may wish to visit my website, Gyrofrog Communications.

In January 2012, I completed a Wikipedia Signpost interview about WikiProject Jazz.

Some articles I've started
Many of these involved little effort on my part. This is more of an indicator as to where my interests lie, in case anyone's curious.


 * Adama (a.k.a. Nazareth), an Ethiopian city (and my wife's hometown)
 * Adriana Evans, an R&B vocalist
 * Aframomum corrorima, or korarima, a spice used in berbere
 * After the Heat, an album by Brian Eno and Cluster
 * Ambersunshower, an R&B vocalist
 * Amha Records, an Ethiopian record label from 1969 to 1975
 * Between Today and Yesterday, an Alan Price album
 * Blue Serge, a Serge Chaloff album
 * Boston Blow–Up!, a Serge Chaloff album
 * Buda, the Ethiopian term for the evil eye and werehyenas
 * Caravan of Dreams, a performing arts center (which I never actually got to visit) in Fort Worth, Texas.
 * Chris Connor (album)
 * Cluster, a German musical group
 * Conference of the Birds (Dave Holland album)
 * Davina, an R&B vocalist/musician
 * Dennis González, a jazz trumpeter
 * Dukem, an Ethiopian village
 * Durba (aka Derba), an Ethiopian town
 * Eskinder Nega, an Ethiopian journalist convicted under anti-terrorism legislation
 * Ethiopiques, a series of compact discs released by the Paris-based Buda Musique
 * Flowers of Romance, a Public Image Ltd album
 * Fred Jackson (saxophonist). (An earlier version of that page was about Fred Jackson, Jr., until I figured out they were two different musicians.)
 * Greenbelt Park
 * Halber Mensch, an Einstürzende Neubauten album
 * The Ideal Copy, a Wire album
 * I.M. Terrell High School, a former high school (and Ornette Coleman's alma mater) in Fort Worth, Texas
 * In All Languages, an Ornette Coleman album
 * Jay Rosen (drummer), jazz musician
 * Jazzyfatnastees, an R&B vocal duo
 * Jiim Sheikh Muumin, Somalian musician and actor
 * Kaifa Records, an Ethiopian record label from 1973 to 1977
 * Lenox Avenue Breakdown, an Arthur Blythe album
 * List of "Core Collection" albums in The Penguin Guide to Jazz (deleted: AfD discusion. See WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable albums.)
 * List of "Crown" albums in The Penguin Guide to Jazz (deleted: AfD discussion. See WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable albums.)
 * Live at Newport '58, a Horace Silver album
 * Loose Ends, an R&B band
 * Mahmoud Ahmed, an Ethiopian singer
 * Metal Box, a Public Image Ltd album (the Metal Box page history doesn't show my early edits, due to a re-direct along the way)
 * Second Edition, the double-LP version of Metal Box
 * A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry, a Charles Mingus album
 * More Soul, a Hank Crawford album
 * Mulatu Teshome
 * Old Hickory Lake and Old Hickory Lock and Dam
 * Passion - Sources, an album compiled by Peter Gabriel (I split this off from Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ)
 * Percy Priest Lake and J. Percy Priest Dam
 * Peter Gabriel (1980 album)
 * Prince Lasha, a jazz saxophonist (his album Firebirds with Sonny Simmons is one of my favorite albums in any genre)
 * The Rance Allen Group, a gospel music group who recorded for Stax Records
 * Ron Wynn, an allmusic critic
 * Sodere, a spa resort in Ethiopia
 * Space Is the Place (soundtrack), a Sun Ra album
 * Stanley Marsh 3
 * Taj Mahal Travellers
 * Tanbūra, a bowl lyre of the Middle East and East Africa.
 * Tears for Dolphy, a Ted Curson album
 * Texas State Highway Spur 580

Note(s) to self

 * Hagerstown Regional Airport
 * Metallic K.O.
 * Pangaea (album)
 * Chancho (8,321/3,797m/4,524f)
 * Misa Criolla
 * Wesha (or Sole?)
 * https://www.academia.edu/2035441/The_Legendary_Fate_of_Pontius_Pilate

Useful stuff
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 * Image copyright tags
 * Cite sources
 * Extended image syntax
 * Picture tutorial
 * WikiProject Albums
 * Penguin Guide to Jazz


 * 10th ed.
 * 9th ed.
 * 8th ed.:


 * All Music Guide to Jazz (1st ed.):
 * Cadence Magazine
 * (old)
 * (new)


 * Jazz for Dummies (2nd ed.):
 * Isn't it iconic?
 * Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_179


 * Citation method


 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums/Archive 36
 * Free funk
 * Category:Jazz articles needing infoboxes

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