On his 11th birthday, Russ Corvey received his first guitar - a brown vinyl-covered Hofner purchased from a small music store in Kaiserlautern, Germany, where he was living with his military family. By his next birthday, he was playing regular $5 gigs at the nearby Army and Air Force base teen clubs - covering surf-rock instrumentals by The Shadows and The Ventures. Forty-five years on he's never stopped playing.

After a short period studying arranging and composition at Boston's Berklee College of Music, Russ "hit the road" - 11 years of non-stop touring with a variety of show bands. Russ has performed in every state east of the Mississippi (and a few on the other side too) and toured several European countries.

In 1996, with saxman Thom Chambers, Russ formed Indigo City, a smooth jazz recording act that scored national attention with the self-produced 1997 CD, Samba Electrique.

In the next few years, Russ performed at The Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, appeared on the 2001 Smooth Jazz All-Star Cruise and performed at dozens of jazz festivals across the country. Today Russ appears as a featured instrumetalist with ensembles comprised of his favorite musicians from the past 20 years.

In 2003 Russ began a collaboration with noted Argentian choreographer Hernan Justo, composing and arranging music for a full-length ballet. Now living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Russ is working on a new jazz CD and composing a new dance work.