Brian Arthur Lovell Rust (19 March 1922 – 5 January 2011) was an English jazz discographer.

Career

Rust was born in 1922 in Golders Green, then part of the

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. He collected records from the age of five, but his most significant purchase was aged 14, when he acquired a copy of "Ostrich Walk" by the Original Dixieland Jass Band. After leaving school, Rust became a bank clerk. During the

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, he was a

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, and worked as an auxiliary fire officer. After the war, he returned to being a bank clerk. He worked in the

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's record library from 1945 to 1960, and supervised broadcasting selections. He contributed to '' The Gramophone'' magazine from 1948 to 1970, and wrote freelance from 1960, including liner notes for record releases. During the early 1960s, he was living in Hatch End, Middlesex. Rust hosted the ''Mardi Gras'' radio programme on

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from 1973 to 1984, in which he played only 78s; his friend Chris Ellis recalled that he sounded like "a cross between an Oxford don and an overgrown schoolboy, always bubbling with enthusiasm". Rust's ''Jazz Records 1897–1942'', revised several times since its publication in 1961, is a standard jazz discography. He moved from London to

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, in 1970. Rust died on 5 January 2011 in Swanage, England, aged 88. He was survived by his wife, Mary, and their daughters, Angela and Pamela, and a son, Victor.

Discographies

General discographies

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Artists' discographies

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British discographies

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Label discographies

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Other work

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References

Citations

External links

FolkLib Index - Brian Rust Bibliography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rust, Brian 1922 births 2011 deaths English music critics English musicologists English radio presenters Record collectors Writers from the London Borough of Barnet Discographers People from Golders Green