User:Gyrofrog

Gyrofrog

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About me

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

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
• 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.
• 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
• Ethiopiques, a series of compact discs released by the Paris-based Buda Musique
• Flowers of Romance, a Public Image Ltd album
• Halber Mensch, an Einstürzende Neubauten album
• The Ideal Copy, a Wire album
• In All Languages, an Ornette Coleman album
• Jazzyfatnastees, an R&B vocal duo
• Kaifa Records, an Ethiopian record label from 1973 to 1977
• Lenox Avenue Breakdown, an Arthur Blythe album
• List of "Crown" albums in The Penguin Guide to Jazz
• List of "Core Collection" albums in The Penguin Guide to Jazz
• 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
• 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, Peter Gabriel's 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
• Sodere, a spa resort in Ethiopia
• Space Is the Place (soundtrack), a Sun Ra album
• Stanley Marsh 3
• Tears for Dolphy, a Ted Curson album

Gyrofrog is presented this Africa Award for his excellent contributions to Africa-related articles, particularly his work on East Africa-related coverage. Presented by Dvyost from the Africa-related regional notice board

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For warning my ip for its persistant vandalism.—Phoenix-wiki 21:43, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

		The Citation Barnstar
		You are hereby awarded the citation barnstar for your extraordinary (and expensive) efforts on digging out sources for the Kerry Wendell Thornley article, arriving to the point of paying a subscription to the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution magazine just to be able to cite the only sources that could support his existance as a real person. Enric Naval (talk) 08:41, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Note(s) to self

• Hagerstown Regional Airport
• Metallic K.O.
• Pangaea (album)
• Chancho (8,321/3,797m/4,524f)
• Ron Wynn link
• Misa Criolla
• Wesha

Useful stuff

"Only a primitive would believe a word of Wikipedia." -- Tom Wolfe^[1]

• {{subst:User:Gyrofrog/Notables}}
• {{subst:Uw-unsor1|xxx|2='''See also:''' [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Somalia#Clan lineage]], [[:Category talk:Somali clans]]. Thank you.}}
• Image copyright tags
• Wikipedia:Cite sources
• Wikipedia:Extended image syntax
• Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums
• Penguin Guide to Jazz

• 9th ed. {{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|authorlink = Richard Cook|coauthors = [[Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|Brian Morton]]|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|origyear = 1992|edition = 9th|series = [[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|language = English|isbn = 978-0-141-03401-0|pages = xxx}}
• 8th ed.: {{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|authorlink = Richard Cook|coauthors = [[Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|Brian Morton]]|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|origyear = 1992|edition = 8th|series = [[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]|year = 2006|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|language = English|isbn = 0-141-02327-9|pages = xxx}}

• All Music Guide to Jazz (1st ed.): {{Citation | last =Wynn | first =Ron | year =1994 | title =[[All Music Guide to Jazz: The Definitive Guide to Jazz|All Music Guide to Jazz]] | place =San Francisco | publisher =Miller Freeman | page=xxx | isbn =0879303085}}
• Cadence Magazine {{cite journal | quotes = no | last = | first = | year = | month = | title = | journal = [[Cadence Magazine]] | volume = | issue = | pages = | publisher = Cadnor Ltd. | location = [[Redwood, New York|Redwood, NY]] | issn = 01626973 }}

Citation method

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