{"history":[],"article":{"id":"8da7ef20-cb5b-4558-a728-7b3f7aa1bf65","title":"Brian Rust","slug":"brian-rust","content":":::summary\n**Name:** Brian Rust \n**Birth Name:** Brian Arthur Lovell Rust \n**Birth Date:** March 19, 1922 \n**Birth Place:** [Golders Green](https://bliptext.com/articles/golders-green), [Middlesex](https://bliptext.com/articles/middlesex), England \n**Death Date:** January 5, 2011 \n**Death Place:** [Swanage](https://bliptext.com/articles/swanage), [Dorset](https://bliptext.com/articles/dorset), England \n**Occupation:** Discographer, broadcaster \n:::\n\n# \n**Brian Arthur Lovell Rust** (19 March 1922 – 5 January 2011) was an English jazz discographer.\n\n# Career\nRust was born in 1922 in [Golders Green](https://bliptext.com/articles/golders-green), then part of the [Municipal Borough of Hendon](https://bliptext.com/articles/municipal-borough-of-hendon) in [Middlesex](https://bliptext.com/articles/middlesex).\nHe 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](https://bliptext.com/articles/original-dixieland-jass-band).\nAfter leaving school, Rust became a bank clerk.\nDuring the [Second World War](https://bliptext.com/articles/world-war-ii), he was a [conscientious objector](https://bliptext.com/articles/conscientious-objector), and worked as an auxiliary fire officer.\nAfter the war, he returned to being a bank clerk.\nHe worked in the [BBC](https://bliptext.com/articles/bbc)'s record library from 1945 to 1960, and supervised broadcasting selections.\nHe contributed to [The Gramophone](https://bliptext.com/articles/the-gramophone) magazine from 1948 to 1970, and wrote freelance from 1960, including liner notes for record releases.\nDuring the early 1960s, he was living in [Hatch End](https://bliptext.com/articles/hatch-end), Middlesex.\nRust hosted the Mardi Gras radio programme on [Capital Radio](https://bliptext.com/articles/capital-radio) 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](https://bliptext.com/articles/oxford-don) and an overgrown schoolboy, always bubbling with enthusiasm\".\nRust's Jazz Records 1897–1942, revised several times since its publication in 1961, is a standard jazz discography.\nHe moved from London to [Swanage](https://bliptext.com/articles/swanage), [Dorset](https://bliptext.com/articles/dorset), in 1970.\nRust died on 5 January 2011 in Swanage, England, aged 88.\nHe was survived by his wife, Mary, and their daughters, Angela and Pamela, and a son, Victor.\n\n# Discographies\n\n## General discographies\n

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