Brian Rust

Brian Rust’s two-volume Jazz Information 1897-1942 (1st posted in 1961 and modified and expanded many times since) may be the definitive discography for early jazz. An archive collector following the age group of five, Corrosion worked well for the BBC in the 1950s and became a jazz journalist in 1948, when he began reviewing information for The Gramophone; he published many liner records and evaluations on early jazz in the next decades. As well as the jazz discography, Corrosion wrote a publication on Ruler Oliver with W.C. Allen in 1955 and come up with books around the documenting output of a number of labels, aswell as compiling The American Dance Music group Discography and THE ENTIRE Entertainment Discography.