Jazz on the JNote Airs this Sunday, September 11th, 2022 at 7:30Pm on WNYE 91.5FM with your host Stephanie Jeannot

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!

Tickle Me Blizzard

I have been grappling with something that doesn’t seem to part ways with my heart. 

Perhaps you can say that I have been under construction trying to figure it all out. But, this dire feeling has lived with me from the beginning of this year until this day. I’m howling with laughter at the idea of getting up to two feet of snow from a March blizzard in New York. 

Flowers are already blooming. Green grass has already started to let its vapors out into the atmosphere. I have already enjoyed the tenderness of seventy degrees weather and was growing comfortable with not wearing a heavy jacket and gloves and here we are; mid-March after the time has lept forward and a few days away from the new season of spring, getting ready to dive deep into another bad winter storm that has already caused the city to close schools for the day.

Now with everyone about to be home for a day due to this oncoming wintry mess that is

about to embrace us, and hopefully off the roads driving like race car drivers on the slippery pavements, here are a few things we can do inside to keep us stoked for the rest of the journey.

1. Use a big pot or slow cooker to make some hot soup that can be enjoyed by everyone all day. It is  cold outside. After shoveling, the soup is perfect for bringing the temperature

in our bodies back up.

2. Pray for the homeless, that they might find a warm place to stay and be safe from the freezing temperatures.

3. Check on the elderly. Call them and make sure that they are alright and safe.

4. Keep your mind engaged by checking and responding to overdue emails, reading a good book, watching a nice family movie, check out some great documentaries on Youtube, crochet or do a nice puzzle that will intrigue your mind and keep you busy.

5. Don’t spend your entire day on your computer or with your face in your phone. Since everybody is home, what a great time to have some meaningful, heartfelt conversations and to enjoy spending time together as a team.

6. Start that spring cleaning by decluttering and putting away things that are no longer useful to you and donate them to a swap meet or to someone else who might you’re your junk useful.

7. Exercise at home. 

Put some dance music on and just let the good feeling take over your body and work it out. 

Here is a song that might work. It is called All Night Long by Stephanie Jeannot and Derrick Smith and was performed live by the JNote Band at Silvanas in Harlem, NY.  https://youtu.be/hkM6ZIcnETo

March Madness might pertain to sports but I think it applies with this winter. 

Whatever it is that you do, please be safe! God bless you and your loved ones!