John McCusker

John McCusker is a New Orleans native who worked as a photojournalist for three decades at the Times-Picayune and later the New Orleans Advocate . He was part of the team that shared the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism for covering Hurricane Katrina. He is author of Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz and coauthor of Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians , both published by University Press of Mississippi. He is also founder of the Cradle of Jazz Tour.

John McCusker is a New Orleans native who worked as a photojournalist for three decades at the Times-Picayune and later the New Orleans Advocate . He was part of the team that shared the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism for covering Hurricane Katrina. He is author of Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz and coauthor of Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians , both published by University Press of Mississippi. He is also founder of the Cradle of Jazz Tour. See less