In the 1920’s, in the years before the stock market crash, a strange phenomena breaks out in the eastern states. Some people can’t explain it, some blame it on the African-Americans, whose religions and cults are starting to show. It begins to spread repidly, and many people are trying to find an antidote to this epidemic known as "jes gru", but others will do everything possible to nourish it and keep it thriving...

Mumbo Jumbo is a fascinating tale by Ishmael Reed, and also in the Kumfstkopf Binaural genre. For a story that spans two cassettes, it is actually quite obscure. This is because ZBS stopped produsing copies of it in the 1980s when Ishmael Reeds discovered that his story had been made into a beautiful, creative audio adaptation without his permission. As a result, Mumbo Jumbo has become a collector's item, and I am lucky to own a copy given to me by my grandmother. My advice to people who want to get a copy of this adventure is to look on ebay or some other online auctioning site.

GREAT NEWS! Disregard that last paragraph! ZBS has re-released Mumbo Jumbo on CD! I'm writing to Mr. Fulton to ask just how this came about!

Papa Labazz - Dave Adams
Black Herman - Al Simkins
Hinkle van Vamten and the Teutonic's Voice - Albert Bensui
Hubert "Safecracker" Goold - Dean Dockerty
Heirofant I and the Editor of the New York Sun- John Bleezedale
Woodrow Wilson Jefferson - Ed Shockley
Abdul Sufi-Hamid - Alfred Holmes
Biff Musclewhite and Schlitz, the Serge of Yorktown - Ken Horoff
Earlene and Isis - Robin Black
T. Malice - Bruce Robinson
Charlotte and the Queen of Ubangi- Cecilia Ann Bert
Thor Wintergreen and the Museum Guard- Jay Mark Danley
Burbalang - Floyd Green
Fuentes, Schlitz's Bodyguard and Buddy Jackson's Man - Ernesto Plaza
Yellow Jack - George Chang
Major Young - James Roberts
Buddy Jackson and the Cabaret Doorman - Donald Newton
The Mayor of New Orleans and the Barber - William Kirby
The Two Doctors and the Heirofant's Guards - Mark LaCava and John Barrett
The Reverend Jefferon - Charles Butler
The Deacons - Donald Newton, Ed Shockley and Charles Butler
Binwah Batriville - Java Emanuel I
Hank Rowlings - Von Morrison
Old Jethro, Set and Moses - Larry Moses
Radio Announcer - New Fredman
The Trolleyman and the Fence - Gregory Simpson
The Newsboy - Jakob Frukter
The Robber Baron and Walter Melon - John Barrett
Zuzu, the Local Doo-Wacka-Doo - Susan Weffle
The Little Boy - Nebadon Adams
The Narrator - Millicent Sphox

Associate Producer - Phoenix
Executive Producer - Tom Lopez
Assistant Producer - Al Simkins
Written by - Ishmael Reed
Adapted for Radio by - M. Fulton
Directed by - Tom Lopez
Production Manager - Claudia Forte
Location Sound Engineer - Susan Brown
Audio Consultant - Bob Bilecki
Lighting - Adam Meyer
Voodoo Consultant - Quattlebaum
Music Composed and Performed by - Tim Clark

Recorded in Philadelphia and mixed at ZBS by Fulton and Phoenix