Herbie Hancock Blows Kids’ Minds With The Power Of Synthesised Music


Legendary jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock stops by Sesame Street to explain the inner workings of the state-of-the-art (in 1983, at least) Fairlight CMI synthesiser and its monochrome touchscreen monitor to a bunch of seven year-olds.

Among them, a girl that would one day play Will Smith’s cousin on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and go on to child-star obscurity. And people want to de-fund PBS. [Open Culture via It’s OK to be Smart]