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Basie in London is a 1956 live album by Count Basie and his orchestra, recorded (despite the inaccurate album title) in Gothenburg, Sweden

Review by Michael G. Nastos

... As far as the music, it represents the Basie band in a classic time period, playing many well-known, long-lasting, and beloved tunes that everybody will recognize. It's also a band loaded with legendary Basie sidemen like Freddie Green, Sonny Payne, Thad Jones, Frank Foster, Frank Wess, Joe Newman, Marshall Royal, Charlie Fowlkes, and on three tracks, Joe Williams. The warm, effusive, happy jazz of Count Basie is well recorded with distinction, presence, good stereo separation, and the restrained yet punchy sound Basie always presented with dignified class..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNvvvoNpYns&list=RDmNvvvoNpYns&start_radio=1

#CountBasie #Jazz #BigBand #Swing #Music #Cockney #Lambeth #PearlyKing #PearlyQueen #Gothenburg

Jörg 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺Jan 13

Peaky Blinders, Season 2, Episode 2
The first appearance of Alfi Salomon, played by Tom Hardy.
He’s speaking the hardest #Cockney I’ve ever heard. Really challenging to understand.

N-gated Hacker News Dec 13

🎉🦸‍♂️Hold onto your chimney sweeps! The man with elastic limbs and accents thicker than British fog allegedly turns 100, according to The Guardian's marathon-scroll of self-congratulatory drivel. Maybe by 200 he'll master a #Cockney accent! 😆🎂
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/13/dick-van-dyke-centenarian-100-mary-poppins-chitty-chitty-bang-bang #HackerNews #ElasticLimbs #BritishAccent #100thBirthday #ComedyGold #HackerNews #ngated

Elastic limbs, fantastical accents and crackling sexual chemistry: Dick Van Dyke turns 100

The goofy star of Mary Poppins becomes a centenarian on Saturday. And what a precocious performer he has proved, sustaining scrappy mischief through seven decades of mainstream entertainment

The Guardian

Laur4 Oct 2

Quick selection for a vinyl only set, dubstep and deep bass to slowly leave summer and to follow the Rinse FM roots. Thanks FRK1 for the dubplates and Eclipse Tribez for the trust ! 👀

Will be on air on https://www.rinse.fm/channels/france tomorrow at 11pm for 1 hour ⚡️

#RinseFM #cockney #dubstep #bass #dubplate

kabuto2099 at KillBait Sep 8, 2025

105-year-old celebrates birthday with Cockney-themed party at care home

Ada Cook, a 105-year-old resident at Alexandra House Care Home in Harlow, celebrated her milestone birthday with a Cockney-themed party, reflecting on her early life in London and Essex. Born in London, she moved to Essex during World War Two. The event, which included a live singer and photos from ... [More info]

Twoowls Elt 🦉 🦉Aug 28, 2025

Nobody panic!!! #tea #brew #crisis #cockney

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Tâi Siáu-káu 台痟狗ㄊㄇㄉ 🇳🇫 台灣國 Aug 22, 2025

@dlupham
You said: "What is so different about the Taiwanese dialect of Hokkien that it needs a different name?" I gave you direct answers with the examples of #Québecois (which uses a different name from #French 🇫🇷) and #Taiwanese 🇳🇫 which contains many words not used in #Hokkien 🇨🇳 (Does #Cockney deserve its own name?), and you're still not satisified.