"A synthesiser can be a tool to really hurt people's ears and interfere with their lives or it can be a tool to make a really nice sounding instrument that can really affect people in a positive way. It all depends on the person who is using them. People blame machines very often," oh it's the machines fault". The machines fault? We have to plug it in!!!!" Legend

6:14, Herbie "It doesn't program itself--yet" wow these guys are ahead of their time in so many ways. Amazing people!

Just chillin' drinking some wine, hanging out with Quincy and Herbie, 2 of the greatest musical minds ever. And on top of it, a room full of the best synthesizers ever made. Wow.

"The funk will prevail!" -Quincy Jones

THIS is what makes KZfaq worth having in the world!!!! And Herbie started out as one of the BEST pianists playing for Miles and Blue Note records. What growth!!

Wow. Its easy to sometimes write the tones off as "cheesy" and "80s", but those grooves are NASTY. Two geniuses at work...

Wow! Touch screen with a pen. Deep! Two "ahead of their time bros." at work. The room would have exploded if Dexter Wansel stepped in, Stevie stopped by, and Prince wandered into the room. Those are just a few of the "keyboard geniuses" of the electronic synth age!!

Boy, Herbie sure can articulate when he talks. Most musicians fall apart in front of a camera, Herbie speaks like hes talking right to you. Awesome video, man I wish I had all of those vintage synths and samplers.

Herbie was trappin' before Timbaland and that ASR10/ Motif, Pharell, Ryan Leslie stuff. Hearing Quincy and Herbie laughing and being so giddy about new technology during that grooving jam session is priceless. Pure musical enjoyment. These guys are LEGENDS of music. Such a sick video! Thanks for sharing! That 2:30 mark where they set up the jam and laugh in excitement is such a cool feeling. Quincy bouncing on the floor. As the kids say, "That's what's up."

The little lick at the beginning was straight gold.

Anybody else notice Quincy is drinking wine and chewing gum? ..Dude has *always* been gangsta! ;-)

If I could play like that, I would never leave home

Nice combination, producer, composer, ochestra leader and coolest dude on the block, Quincy Jones and one of the best keyboard players ever, Herbie Hancock. And the most underrated synthesizer ever, the Fender Chroma Polaris and the most difficult of them all, the CMI Fairlight. It took experienced producers like Trevor Horn and Herbie Hancock a dedicated engineer to operate it. But the digital-analog converters on this machine were second to none (even up to today's standards), providing it a very rich sound. You could make an enitre album on a Fairlight. And many did, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Trevor Horn, Art of Noise, Thomas Dolby, and many others.

This is one of my favorite through back vids. 2 greats for one thing. And on top of that enjoying technology back when it was taboo to do such. Herbie was so ahead of his time with realizing what was to be. He was an artist that could be playing with a classical Jazz trio one night and the next night do some interstellar Funk vibes. Open minded with music and the art. Ahead of it all to this day. And still doing great pieces for the Planet.

Thanks for the upload! Not a lot of things are better than happy people making music.

I agree with you 1000%. I can watch this video over and over and never get tired of it. Two true genius minds at work, a rare find today.

fairlight is the great grandfather of Reason, Fruity Loops, Ableton, Logic and pro tools

I like to come back to this every once in a while. One of my favourite inspirations for both music, and general creative positivity. Charming!

The funk will prevail. Words to live by.

I watched this clip on TV back in the 80's, have seen it many times since, and still love watching it to this day. And as for that funky bass riff that Herbie plays...its SO damn good!

Love that classic '80s sounding patch and progression HH plays @ b0:09-33. I believe Herbie wrote in his auto biography that Quincy actually bought one of the very first ones for something like 80 grand, whereas Hancock himself initially passed due to its cost but then relented and got his. The Fairlight CMI was arguably the top shelf early sampler/work station of the mid 1908s along w/ the even more rare and costly New England Digital Synclavier (which if I'm not mistaken ended up going bankrupt due to the high costs). Lower down the food chain were the E-mu Emulator II and the Kurzweil 240.

There's still something very special about the Fairlight CMI. The dynamic range of it's output stage alone makes it sound like nothing else. Wonderful to see this video. Thanks very much for uploading.

I think this is from a Documentary called "I Love Quincy" made by some French guys. Its a brilliant behind the scenes look at production and Quincy Jones life as it was then (early 80's) Ray Charles , Henry Mancini , James Ingram , Ralph MacDonald,Patti Austin and Michael Jackson of course, are a few of the Artists i remember included. This was one of my favourite clips Thanks for putting it up

Herbie makes some keen observations about Man vs Machine.He's also prophetic about the future innovations. He's is absolutely correct and uses simple logic for all to understand. He" broke it down!!!" These cats need to see this again. I'll bet they'll laugh till the sun comes up!!

2:30 - 5:10 -- Why the 1980s were AWESOME!

Fantastic clip! Made me feel great!

Two geniuses of music.......amazing guys. Thanks so much for all your wonderful production and music over the last 40 years.

Most beautiful video I have seen in a long time.

A close friend of his once told me how amazing it was to see Herbie work, how involved he got in his music making process, thats love right here, for the work and craft of making music. Remember kids, software and computers dont make you a musician. Herbie was a musician first, and it takes work and dedication.

Seeing these two guys just having so much fun and this kind of just positive relationship is so motivating, and so fun to see!

These two are legendary musicians and producers of modern music! All from Chicago and major influences!

This was a great 'one off' show, which I recorded onto vhs when it was first screened on Channel 4 back in 1984...omg!! :/

Both legends! Very interesting and entertaining video!

wow, herbie is a genius. That groove is just amazing and to do this at that time, i'm very impressed of his skills. This was the time when music came on a natural way threw analog synthesizers and not threw imulations and it also was the time when music was composed and not just "made".

I can just imagine Herbie calling Quincy over the phone like "come over and see this funky shit i've got!!!" This clip is awesome, and made me happy!

this is absolutely spectacular. you can see the happiness happening there. thata perfect moment. its awe inspiring. two inspirational people doing and having incredible amounts of fun and making things that havent been made before. this is the essense of the future. even 2 decades later. i bow my head to this segment.

daaaammmnn that beat at 1:30 though.

The happiness talking about the programs... feelings never change!

I just need to say that this synth is one that I wanted to have, but never could have. Yet still today with all these fancy computer instruments this brings back some serious memories.

its so beautiful to see, how delighted Quincey sits down next to Herbie as soon he hears how he ist hitting the chords

I feel very fortunate to be able to watch this. Don't take this for granted!

I can't believe that this is 83, and 25 years later, Quincy presents Herbie with the Album of the Year. Amazing.

this is amazing. who would've thought that years later everything that herbie is doing in this video can be done through ONE piece of equipment like those keyboards with the built in computers from Neko Labs (haha if thats how you spell it) this really makes you wonder how music is gonna sound like 20 or 30 years from now

So many jewels in this video. The knowledge of these two and the very wise words of Herbie Hancock

The more I watch these Fairlight demonstrations, the more I have to have one! And Quincy and Herbie would be perfect teachers, kudos to them!

This video has been on KZfaq almost as long as I've been alive. Neat.

Doesn't get better than this!

Man, the groove and melody he creates around 3:00 is AWSOME;

This makes me happy on so many levels!

Yes, these guys are coooool!

just amazing! hear these synth sounds.. so much power and soul .. i'm happy that i feel familiar with these times. so much good and interesting music has been made in this era. thank and bless these brothers!

this video is one of the most incredible displays of talent i have ever seen in my life...inspiring

Thk god someone recorded this sweet moment - two geniuses at work

what a pair of absolute legends!!!!

this is incredible!! so happy this is on youtube!

This is amazing! Love it!

Herbie is the man ! ' love how he uses the pitch bend to create these distorted sounds as he plays ... And, yeah, definitely : the African blood is still here !!!

I love this man. Thanks Herbie!!!

Two musical geniuses at work

Saw this on tv a long Time ago. Good to See it here again. Tuns.

2 of my favorite artists/arrangers of ALL time!!

At 5:30, Herbie explains the synth's role in music really well. People that think the machines make the music, don't know what they are talking about.

Just saw Herbie live in "Vitoria-Gasteiz(Spain) jazz festival", totally awesome.

Now thats ol skool funkylicious man his music is off da hook i used to break with his beats all the time one of the best songs is Rock it!!!!

Thanx, Herbie and Q; and thank God for people as gifted and open and intelligent as they are...if He's [extant in the 1st place] there, watching/listening, but it's Godlike to create, so I'll keep the phrase 'thank God'] There is so much I agree with that they said, especially H.H., about the poor condition of music being blamed on "bad tools" i.e., electronics. What people do with their tool ability [as ever] can be for well or for evil. That iin particular is a great thought.

Amazing what these guys bring out of plain electric signals:-) Met HerbieHancock back in 1997 in Dresden when he played with WayneShorter at the "Tonne" - a most energizing concert!

I do to these people change direction of music for ever,so much talent and creativity.and not just that,theres a message in all that music they created,the message of make us feel good.just amazing how they innovated.this is a must see for EVERY musician

Pure quality. The best of the best....

Back in the days Fairlight was the shit! Hancock is amazing on the keys.

Another Gift from Herbie to us...simply amazing !!

I just came! These guys need more respect!

History in the making right here! Now I have to check out the entire doc.

Two legends in the same room doing music and an interviewer that is not pushy. This video is phenomenal 🔥

Great to see these legends as regular dudes playing with stuff :-)

I can't understand how someone could thumbs down this.....These cats are legendary ("" My Enfluences (""

Fred Koke,thank you so much for this!!!

When I was 7 I heard Future Shock when it first came out and have been a huge follower of Herbie's works since. I wish real musicians like Herbie received more attention for their talents and abilities.

magical sequence

Quincy Jones in the studio geekin' out with Herbie Hancock...Classic!

thanks so much for posting this - a beautifully insightful piece of footage, has made my day, and it's only 11am.

Man, that Rhodes Chroma sounds amazing!!!!

I love watching this video

gooodness gracious..this is so gaddamn funky!

So wonderfully inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

Due uomini straordinari all'opera!!! Marvellous video, thx for sharing man...

epic understatement lol tens and tens of thousands, back in '84 this was state of the art technology, and there are some analogs in there that are still highly sought after.

Thanks for that. Awesome video.

glorious - thank you so much for posting this

quincy jones: "the funk will prevail".. hehe, epic :)

Fairlight! Australian!!

Nice to see Jenious Jones at work.

Way ahead of his time. Brilliant

all i can say is thanks for posting this...bless u

so great to see the masters at work

One of my mentors !!! back in the day . awesome stuff !

me too theyre making history there plus having a good time the vibe in there is like DAMMN I cant wait to go to the studio

Wow, INCREDIBLE video. THANK YOU! Awesome music. Hancock is killer!

this vid always brings a smile to my face

thanks for this upload =)

Just great guys with great equipment! Really nice video!