I will never forget that sad day in 2001 when chaos took
over New York City.
I just sat at my desk sipping on my Venti cup filled with
dark roast coffee. It was not shortly after the freshness of it got me all jittered
up for the day ahead of me that I heard the news of a plane crashing into the
first of the Twin Towers.
I was in my office building in mid-town and everybody ascended
to the top floor of the building so that they could see from the windows what was
going on. The sites I saw that day, I hope to never see again.
It was like a movie and so unreal. Who would have thought
something like this could have been happening right before our eyes. And the craziest part about it all is that it
happened 21 years ago and it is still very fresh in my mind like it was yesterday,
when my friends and I walked along the thoroughfares of Manhattan, over the
Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn; I still remember seeing burnt paper from the World
Trade Center showering over the streets of Flatbush as I approached the comfort
of home and the quietness that took over the city that never sleeps thereafter.
Twenty-One years later, we remember the tragedy, the lives
lost, the beautiful skyline, the shopping center that was in the building, and
just all the things that was pre-9/11. I want to encapsulate the memory of
these very things in this Sunday’s episode of my radio show Jazz on the
JNote which will air Sunday, September 11, 2022 from 7:30PM to 8PM, as part
of the Medgar Ever’s College Community Radio Stream over the airwaves of WNYE 91.5 FM, hosted by show host &
producer Stephanie Jeannot.
The show traditionally plays jazz and has commentaries throughout
the show that relate the songs to the topic at hand. This week in particular is
to celebrate the lives lost on the tragic day back in 2001. Hope that you will
join us this Sunday at 7:30PM on WNYE 91.5 FM for Jazz on the
JNote with your host Stephanie Jeannot.
Until then, Peace!
