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<blockquote data-quote="Young Col" data-source="post: 628799" data-attributes="member: 38">Hi Jo, yes still here and your message made me put up my first post for years! Great to hear about your dad. Sorry about his passing but pleased he got a proper send off. I didn&#039;t know that background, but it confirms what a good pianist he was. I worked with him on european trade policy in the Department of Trade and Industry in Victoria Street, Westminster (the building no longer there) in the late 1970s and it must have been casual chat that made us realise we had jazz in common.As for The Great Danes, in a later job working for a Goverment appointed committee of inquiry, I selected it for a working weekend away for them. The committee members included several knights of the Realm, a peer, several professors and senior industrialists. It was a good venue for the event. It shows how far it has fallen now. Just visible from the M20 I think.For myself, the &quot;Young&quot; in YC is now hardly appropriate, but I play lead alto in an amateur big band in Redhill, Surrey and 1st tenor in another in Reigate.Now I&#039;m going to have to check in to the cafe again after many years!Great to hear from you!YC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Young Col, post: 628799, member: 38"] Hi Jo, yes still here and your message made me put up my first post for years! Great to hear about your dad. Sorry about his passing but pleased he got a proper send off. I didn't know that background, but it confirms what a good pianist he was. I worked with him on european trade policy in the Department of Trade and Industry in Victoria Street, Westminster (the building no longer there) in the late 1970s and it must have been casual chat that made us realise we had jazz in common. As for The Great Danes, in a later job working for a Goverment appointed committee of inquiry, I selected it for a working weekend away for them. The committee members included several knights of the Realm, a peer, several professors and senior industrialists. It was a good venue for the event. It shows how far it has fallen now. Just visible from the M20 I think. For myself, the "Young" in YC is now hardly appropriate, but I play lead alto in an amateur big band in Redhill, Surrey and 1st tenor in another in Reigate. Now I'm going to have to check in to the cafe again after many years! Great to hear from you! YC [/QUOTE]

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