"BLUE CRUSH"
Scene Magazine
By Cris Glaser
Sept.2005
A stint in Holland last year to sing with a Dutch blues band was just the inspiration trumpeter Kristine Jackson needed before forming Basically Blue."I had the urge to do more than just play be a horn player," says Jackson about her role in Blues on Purpose, the band she founded in 2002. "I needed to search for something more." Today, Jackson sings in the smaller Acoustically Blue, when she's not fronting the jazzier Basically Blue (see a theme here?) quintet. "She has a way of making you enjoy how she lays it down." says Buddy Miles Express bandleader Mark "Muggie Doo" Leach. "If the rest of the band isn't on their p's and q's, you can bet she's walking away as MVP of the night."