A superior tenor-saxophonist from Northern California, Anton Schwartz has his own sound and a fresh conception of forward-looking hard bop. On Flash Mob he is joined by trumpeter Dominick Farinacci, pianist Taylor Eigsti, bassist John Shifflett and drummer Lorca Hart. Performing nine of his originals plus Kenny Dorham’s “La Mesha” and Thelonious Monk’s “Epistrophy,” Schwartz has created a CD worthy of the best of 1960s Blue Note. Not all of the music necessarily sounds like that era, but if Blue Note had continued recording creative sessions with their roster of jazz greats into the 1970s and ‘80s, some of it might have sounded like this.