I found this pair of musicians setting up for a jazz performance at one of the many cafes that draw visitors to the French Market. The gauzy backdrop softly abstracts the background while the backlighting turns the musicians into abstract silhouettes. The sound of New Orleans jazz is pervasive, by day and by night. There are always musicians playing in the bars, cafes, and restaurants, as well as on the streets and in the parks of “The Big Easy.” (The origin of that nickname most likely dates to James Conaway’s novel of the same name in 1970 as well as the 1987 popular movie based on that novel, starring Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin, a film that carried the nickname into the public consciousness. “The Big Easy” nickname is often connected to the easy-going, laid-back attitudes of jazz musicians such as these.)