Shox Johnson
and his Jive Bombers

Return of the Brocaded Adventurer

C-Note Records 801029 1983 12" 33rpm (Canada)

SHOX JOHNSON (vocalist) was born STEPHEN ROSS WILCOX in 1956. He passed away in the year 2000 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Posing as an old-school jazz hipster known for his wit and deliberately tacky outfits, ‘Shox Johnson’ as he was known in all of Toronto’s rock bars, jazz clubs, and concert halls, liked to say he had a PhD from the University of the Streets.

When he passed away, The Toronto Star eulogized him, reporting, “During the late 1970s and and early 1980s, at the height of the disco and punk eras, Shox Johnson and his Jive Bombers rocked Toronto's after-hours clubs and bars. The nine-piece band's zany stunts and spontaneity, coupled with their hard-hitting brand of jazz and rhythm and blues, secured it something of a cult following... originators of the big band revival that is seeing a resurgence in the present day”.

Shox Johnson and The Toronto Jive Bombers (led by trombonist John Karpenko, with Alex Dean and Del Dako on saxophones, Larry Cramer on trumpet, Martin Loomer on guitar, Chris Conner on bass, and Curt Smith on drums) performed in concert during the “Sound of Toronto Jazz” Series at the Ontario Science Centre on March 24, 1980.

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ondition:  LP is NEAR MINT  in a printed paper inner sleeve in a picture sleeve that is VERY GOOD (some spine damage)

A Note About Shipping To The U.S.
We are located in Canada, but have registered ourselves on eBay.com instead of eBay.ca because it gives us significantly better global exposure.  The problem with this is that eBay wants us to charge shipping appropriate to US, where media mail and other options make for fairly reasonable delivery costs. We tried it for a while but ended up losing money on shipping or having to cancel the orders because we couldn't afford to ship for those rates. To manage this we have set the US shipping to run a calculator based on an American location (we chose Plattsburgh as fairly close) and charging according to UPS pricing.  This avoids the cancellation issue, but appears to the buyer to be a prohibitive shipping cost and misrepresents the shipping as being only expedited. If you give us your postal code we will see if we can offer a more reasonable option, but generally we can get a single LP by air to most places in the continental US for $11, a few bucks less for ground.
Thanks for shopping Sir Helmitt,
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