Brian Rust

Brian Arthur Lovell Rust (19 March 1922 – 5 January 2011) was an English jazz discographer.^[1]

Rust was born in London, and collected records from the age of five. He worked in the BBC's record library from 1945 to 1960, and supervised broadcasting selections. He wrote for The Gramophone from 1948 to 1970, and wrote freelance from 1960, including liner notes for record releases. He hosted the Mardi Gras radio program on Capital Radio from 1973 to 1984. His Jazz Records 1897–1942, revised several times since its publication in 1961, is a standard jazz discography. Rust died on 5 January 2011 in Swanage, England.^[1]

Books[]

• King Joe Oliver (1955) (with W. C. Allen)
• Recorded Jazz : A Critical Guide (1958) (with Rex Harris), Pelican A417
• Jazz Records 1897–1942 (1961; revised)
• The Victor Master Book, 1925–1936 (1970)
• The Dance Bands (1972)
• The Complete Entertainment Discography (1973)
• The American Dance Band Discography (1975)
• The H. M. V. Studio House Bands (1976)
• London Musical Shows on Record 1897 – 1976, General Gramophone Publications (1977)
• The American Record Label Book (1978)
• Discography of Historical Records on Cylinders and 78s (1979)
• British Music Hall on Record, General Gramophone Publications (1979)
• Brian Rust's Guide to Discography. Discographies, Number 4 Greenwood Press. 1980. ISBN 0-313-22086-7.
• My Kind of Jazz. Hamish Hamilton. 1990. ISBN 978-0241127919.
• Jazz and Ragtime Records 1897–1942 (6th revised and expanded ed.). Mainspring Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0967181929. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2019-04-08.

References[]

Citations

Further Reading

• Scott Yanow, Brian Rust at Allmusic
• Robert Gannon, "Brian Rust". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
• Russell, Tony; Wilmer, Val (31 Mar 2011). "Brian Rust obituary". The Guardian.
• Robinson, J.P. (20 December 2016). "Hot jazz and air raids: The birth of record collecting in the UK". Medium.

External links[]

• FolkLib Index - Brian Rust Bibliography

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