<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2025/0214-charles-trill101-jazz-performance.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>Groundbreaking multidisciplinary jazz performance premieres at Zankel</title><author/><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>02/14/2025 10:44:07 AM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>“Trill 101” premieres March 1, culminating a year-long collaboration with Brooklyn-based musician Melanie Charles and students across music, dance, and the humanities.</description><category>Press Releases</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2025/images/0214-trill101-thumbnail.jpg" alt="A black and white photo of Melanie Charles sitting in a chair. She looks at the camera with one knee propped up and an arm resting off the side."/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2025/images/0214-trill101-hero.jpg" alt="Melanie Charles sits in an orange chair onstage at Zankel Music Center alongside Yunie Mojica and Terri Lyne Carrington, both in blue chairs."/></image><caption>Melanie Charles (center)  and podcast co-host Yunie Mojica (right) invited students to consider structures that shape the future of jazz at the Jazz and Gender Justice Town Hall, with legendary jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington (left). Photo by Linden Amster.</caption></item>