Brian Priestley (born 10 July 1940) is an English jazz writer, pianist and arranger. Priestley began studying music at age 8, and in the 1960s began arranging jazz pieces for the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and gained a degree in modern languages from Leeds University. In the late 1960s Priestley began contributing to the jazz press and was responsible for entries in Jazz on Record: A Critical Guide to the First Fifty Years, 1917–67 (1968), edited by Albert McCarthy and others. Priestley is currently living in Tralee, Ireland, where he presents a show on Radio Kerry.