Over the past 18 years, John has been a fly-on-the-wall, or stage, at the New Orleans Jazz Festival — an exuberant musical feast featuring 12 stages, all simultaneously alive with music, ranging from blues to jazz to gospel to world, folk, rap and rock. Since his first foray into the fest as a staff-photographer for USA Today, he’s captured greats from the late Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, the late Gatemouth Brown, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band (which played at the first fest in 1970) and Miles Davis to Sting, Rosie Ledet, Chris Botti, Willie Nelson, Joss Stone, Lenny Kravitz, Bruce Springsteen. The list goes on forever.