For the past twenty-five years, Russ Anixter has enjoyed a busy career as a music copyist, and has been a partner in Anixter Rice Music Service since 2004. Anixter has worked on over fifty Broadway shows, twenty-five major motion pictures, numerous recording dates, and for live concerts around the country. As an arranger, Russ was a contributor to the New York Fusion Ensemble, which performed in New York clubs and featured Russ’s arrangements of music by Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, and Weather Report. His arrangements have also been featured on concerts by the Lehigh Valley Jazz Repertory Orchestra and the Lehigh University Wind Ensemble. In a prior life, Russ played trombone and other low brass instruments in big bands and orchestras in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently Russ enjoys playing his Fender P-bass in loud hippie bands.