Brian Rust

Brian Rust ( born March 19, 1922 in London, † January 5, 2011 in Swanage ) was a British disco Graf and music critic of popular music and especially of early jazz.

Life and work

Rust, who was an avid record collector from an early age (not only jazz, but also on opera ), began after a time as a bank clerk in 1948 to work as a jazz journalist for " Gramophone ", and later for the Melody Maker and other music magazines, and worked in the 1950s for the BBC, where he started in the disk archive.

From about 1960 he made ​​his love for shellac records to his day job and became a professional disco Graf. During the Second World War, where he worked at the London "Fire Watch", a bunch of 78s shellac records saved his life even once, as he - in search of rarities - at the last moment behind it found refuge from a bomb.

He was known especially for his first published 1961 Discography of 78 rpm disks " Jazz Records 1897-1942 ", which the previous discographies of Charles Delaunay (1936) and Hugues Panassie completed (eg to provide accurate exposure data ). In the 6th edition it includes around 33,000 sheets or recordings ( and 2144 pages). The discography also contained recordings of dance bands, as far as " hot" solos occurred, and ragtime.

During his extensive research to Rust based not only on many record collectors, but also interviewed many jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, Nick LaRocca (first trip to the USA in 1951, followed by working visits in 1959 and 1963). In addition, he has published discographies about Anglo-American dance bands, musicals, record labels as RCA Victor and Columbia ( the him free access to their archives procured ) and " Music Hall " artist. Rust has written numerous liner notes, especially for reissues of dance bands from the 1970s. In the 1980s, he had in London own radio show called "Mardi Gras". On modern jazz (starting from the 1940s ), he was hardly interested.

Rust is also known for his support of the disputed by the scientific Jazz Research claims LaRoccas Nick and his Original Dixieland Jass band to its real author of the old-time jazz idiom.

In 1992 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the ARSC ( Association for Recorded Sound Collections ).

Brian Rust died on 5 January 2011 at the age of 88 years.

Works

  • With WCAllen " King Oliver " in 1955, Chigwell 1987
  • With Rex Harris: Recorded Jazz: A Critical Guide. London, Penguin Books, 1958
  • " Jazz Records 1897-1942 ' ​​, 2 vols, 1961 and often, 6th edition " Jazz and Ragtime Records " Mainspring Press 2003, ISBN 0-9671819-2-5
  • "The American Dance Band Discography ," 2 vols, Arlington House, 1975, ISBN 0-87000-248-1 (planned second edition, by Richard Johnson revised)
  • Sandy Forbes ' British Dance Bands on Record 1911 to 1945 ", General Gramophone Publications,
  • " British Music Hall on Record ", General Gramophone Publications 1979
  • Allen G. Debus with "The complete entertainment discography from 1897 to 1942 " 2.ed., Da Capo Press, 1989, ISBN 0-87000-150-7
  • " Victor Master Book", Vol.2, 1969, privately published
  • With Ross Laird " Discography of Okeh Records, 1918-1934 ", Praeger Publishers, ISBN 0-313-31142-0
  • " London Musical Shows on Record 1897-1976 ", General Gramophone Publications 1976
  • Tim Brooks " The Columbia Master Book", 4 vols, Greenwood Press
  • "The American Record Label Book" Arlington House
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