Jazz saxophonist Anton Schwartz has been drawing listeners in with the power, spirit and subtle complexity of his music since he bounded onto the San Francisco jazz scene in 1995. At 27, Schwartz answered the call of his long-standing passion for jazz, stepping away from the high-level research in Artificial Intelligence he'd carried out at Harvard and Stanford. Once in action as a musician, Schwartz quickly gained an enthusiastic following as music fans responded to what the San Francisco Chronicle has called his "warm, generous tone, impeccably developed solos and infectious performance energy." In the years since, Schwartz has won over listeners and critics at high-profile jazz venues across the country, including the Blue Note in New York, Washington D.C.'s Blues Alley, and the Monterey Jazz Festival.