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.
