Ossining, NY - On Sunday, February 12, the Ossining Library Foundation will present Ted Daniel and his International Brass & Membrane Corps. at 3pm in the Library’s Budarz Theater.

An audience favorite, the Ossining resident and jazz talent returns to the Library with his band in celebration of Black History Month. Reservations are not required for this free concert. Doors open at 2:30 and seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Trumpeter Ted Daniel grew up in Ossining, frequently collaborating with legendary guitarist Sonny Sharrock before studying music theory and composition at City College of New York. Daniel performed with a number of ensembles and jazz musicians including Brute Force, Archie Shepp, Dewey Redman, Andrew Cyrille, Sam Rivers, Billy Bang and Henry Threadgill, taught workshops and master classes throughout the United States as well as in Japan and Spain, and received a compositional grant from the National Endowment for the Arts before forming the International Brass and Membrane Corps. Daniel describes the IBMC trio as a “flexible and expandable creative music performance group,” utilizing brass instruments and a variety of percussion.

The Ossining Public Library is located at 53 Croton Avenue in Ossining. For information, call (914) 941-2416 x327 or visit http://ossininglibrary.org/.