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Gyrofrog This user is an administrator on the English Misplaced Pages. (verify · RfA) Unified login: Gyrofrog is the unique unified login of this user for all public Wikimedia projects. This user has been on Misplaced Pages for 20 years, 9 months and 5 days. 30,000+ This user has made over 30,000 contributions to Wikimedia projects on over 15300 distinct pages. This user participates in WikiProject Jazz. This user is a participant in WikiProject Ethiopia. This user is married. Dad This user is a father and proud of it! sax This user plays the saxophone. This user is a Texas Longhorn. 22 This user has visited 22 of the 205 countries in the world. This user thinks ringtones are annoying.

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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

		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

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• Penguin Guide to Jazz

• 9th ed. {{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|authorlink = Richard Cook|coauthors = ]|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|origyear = 1992|edition = 9th|series = ]|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 = ]|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|origyear = 1992|edition = 8th|series = ]|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 =] | place =San Francisco | publisher =Miller Freeman | page=xxx | isbn =0879303085}}
• Cadence Magazine {{cite journal | quotes = no | last = | first = | year = | month = | title = | journal = ] | volume = | issue = | pages = | publisher = Cadnor Ltd. | location = ] | issn = 01626973 }}

Citation method

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