Brian Arthur Lovell Rust (19 March 1922 – 5 January 2011) was an English jazz discographer.
[1] Rust was born in 1922 in Golders Green, then part of the Municipal Borough of Hendon in Middlesex.
He contributed to The Gramophone magazine from 1948 to 1970, and wrote freelance from 1960, including liner notes for record releases.
[2] Rust hosted the Mardi Gras radio programme on 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 and an overgrown schoolboy, always bubbling with enthusiasm".
[1] He was survived by his wife, Mary, and their daughters, Angela and Pamela, and a son, Victor.