The iconic UK composer Keith Mansfield will be in conversation at Colbourne avenue this thursday, talking about the art and life of an arranger and playing solo piano along the way.  Keith's big brassy big band style of writing became emblematic of the 60's and 70's, and has been sampled by Quentin Tarantino on his film Kill Bill, by hiphoppers DangerMouse and Gnarles Barkley and Fatboy Slim.  Read and listen here for a great dissection of the way his 1969 "Soul Thing" was sampled by Danger Mouse and MF Doom in 2006. His compositions have become theme songs for westerns (Three bullets for a long gun), BBC programs (Grandstand, Wimbledon) and jazz instrumentalists (Maynard Ferguson).

God knows what else hes done along the way, and thats why you should come and hear the man himself on Thursday

Chase down his history on YouTube.