Jun
7
Herbie Hancock on Sesame Street
This is a wonderful clip of Herbie Hancock, demonstrating his Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument), one the first modern samplers to become commercially available. It changed music production forever, and in order to explain how it worked, Herbie went on Sesame Street, around 1983.
The little girl at the start is Tatyana Ali, who went on to become Ashley Banks in the sitcom ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel Air’.