Jazz pianist and composer Francesco Crosara will appear at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3. He will be joined by bassist Neil Conaty and drummer Kurt Bischoff.

Joining Francesco will be Sus 4, a new music group featuring Kurt Bischoff on drums, Pat McInnis on guitar, Steve Newton on bass and Joe Rice on keyboards.

Bischoff (composer of the pieces to be performed) studied at the University of California, Davis with Stanley Lunetta, Larry Austin and John Cage. He went on to travel internationally with the avant garde performance group Amra Arma, played in the Sacramento Symphony Orchestra and has been performing locally with jazz groups.

Newton is a local bass music teacher and performs with local groups including The Cuban Heels; Rice performs with a variety of local groups including Malo Castro’s latin group WEPA; and McInnis performs solo guitar pieces and has been a member of the Microsoft Jumpin’ Jive Orchestra and the prog rock group Koruram.

Sus 4 will be playing all-original material; this will be the group’s live debut.

Born in Milan, Italy, and residing in Poulsbo since 2017, Crosara is a jazz pianist, composer and educator who has played at festivals and venues across the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, France, Spain and Italy.

He has performed with Lionel Hampton, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Hargrove, Richie Cole, Bobby Shew, Ira Sullivan, Don Menza, John Heard, Gabe Baltazar, Mayuto Correa, Bruce Forman, Barbara Morrison, Earl Palmer, Mark Lewis and more, and produced six jazz albums internationally since 1992, featuring guest artists such as Von Freeman and Lilian Terry.

Tickets are $10 each at the door. For information, contact info@francescojazz.com or thegumbos@yahoo.com.