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

Career

Rust was born in 1922 in

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, then part of the Municipal Borough of Hendon in

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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 BBC's record library from 1945 to 1960, and supervised broadcasting selections. He contributed to ''

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'' magazine from 1948 to 1970, and wrote freelance from 1960, including liner notes for record releases. During the early 1960s, he was living in

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, 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

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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
1922 births 2011 deaths English music critics English musicologists English radio presenters Writers from London Discographers {{UK-music-bio-stub