John McCusker

John McCusker has been a photojournalist in New Orleans since 1983, working at the Times-Picayune and the New Orleans Advocate. He is the author of Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz (2012) and co-author of Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians, (2019) both published by the University Press of Mississippi. McCusker founded the Cradle of Jazz Tour in 1994 with a goal of protecting and marking structures associated with the birth of jazz in New Orleans. He writes the weekly Backstory column for the Times-Picayune.