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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 Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable albums.)
- List of "Crown" albums in The Penguin Guide to Jazz (deleted: AfD discussion. See Wikipedia: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
Awards
 | 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) |
 | The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| For your vigilant work and efforts over the last few years on the Eritrean–Ethiopian War article. -- PBS (talk) 10:27, 9 January 2011 (UTC) |
| | The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| Such a marvelous contributions for creating Wikipedia the wonderful place for everyone your edits are amazing, I highly appreciated your work for Wikipedia therefore I would like to award you with a The Tireless Contributor Barnstar. I wish we will have more editors like you in our Wikipedia Family. --Faizanalivarya (talk) 20:25, 4 January 2012 (UTC) |
Note(s) to self
Useful stuff
"Only a primitive would believe a word of Wikipedia." -- Tom Wolfe[1]
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- {{subst:Uw-unsor1|xxx|2='''See also:''' [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Somalia#Clan lineage]], [[:Category talk:Somali clans#RFC]]. Thank you.}}
- Image copyright tags
- Wikipedia:Cite sources
- Wikipedia:Extended image syntax
- Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums
- Penguin Guide to Jazz
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
- 10th ed. {{cite book|last1 = Cook|first1 = Richard|author-link1 = Richard Cook (journalist)|last2= Morton | first2=Brian | author-link2 = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums |origyear = 1992|edition = 10th | series = [[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]|year = 2010|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-14-104831-4|pages = xxx}}
- 9th ed. {{cite book|last1 = Cook|first1 = Richard|author-link1 = Richard Cook (journalist)|last2= Morton | first2=Brian | author-link2 = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|origyear = 1992|edition = 9th|series = [[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0|pages = xxx}}
- 8th ed.: {{cite book|last1 = Cook|first1 = Richard|author-link1 = Richard Cook (journalist)|last2= Morton | first2=Brian | author-link2 = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|origyear = 1992|edition = 9th|series = [[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0|pages = = xxx}}
- All Music Guide to Jazz (1st ed.): {{Citation | last=Wynn | first=Ron | authorlink=Ron Wynn | editor=[[Ron Wynn]] | others=M. Erlewine, V. Bogdanov | year=1994 | title=[[All Music Guide to Jazz]] | place=San Francisco | publisher=Miller Freeman | page=xxx | isbn=0-87930-308-5}}
- Cadence Magazine
- (old) {{cite journal | last= | first= | year= | month= | title= | journal=[[Cadence Magazine]] | volume= | issue= | pages= | publisher=Cadnor Ltd. | location=[[Redwood, New York|Redwood, NY]] | issn=01626973 }}
- (new) {{cite journal | last= | first= | year= | month= | title= | journal=[[Cadence Magazine]] | volume= | issue= | pages= | publisher=Cadence Media LLC | location=[[Portland, Oregon|Portland, OR]] | issn=01626973 }}
- Jazz for Dummies (2nd ed.): <ref name="jfd">{{Cite book | title=Jazz for Dummies | last=Sutro | first=Dirk | page=240 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tqkRibY3RHoC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA240&pg=PA240#v=onepage&q&f=false | series=[[For Dummies]] | edition=2nd | year=2006 | isbn=9780471768449 | accessdate={{Date|2020-03-29}} }}</ref>
- [[Wikipedia talk:Neutral point of view/Archive 42#Isn't it iconic?|Isn't it iconic?]]
- [[Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_179#Ethiopianorthodox.org]]
- Citation method
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