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Karin Krog (1937 Oslo, Norway) is one of the leading Norwegian jazz singers, a Norwegian composer, musician, genealogist, folklorist and local historian. She is able to sing anything from standards to free improvisations.[3]

Krog started singing jazz as a teenager, and attracted justified attention during jam sessions in Oslo. In 1955 she was hired by the pianist Kjell Karlsen to sing in his sextet.

In 1962 she started her first band and that same year she become a student of the Norwegian-American singer Anne Brown. Karin studied with Brown until 1969. In the 1960s she performed with the rhythm and blues band Public Enemies, releasing the hit singles Sunny and Watermelon Man.

During her career, she has worked with musicians such as Vigleik Storaas, Jacob Young, Terje Rypdal, Arild Andersen, Jan Garbarek, Dexter Gordon, Kenny Drew, Don Ellis, Steve Kuhn, Archie Shepp, Paul Bley, John Surman, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Red Mitchell, and Bengt Hallberg among others.

In 1994 she was the first Norwegian artist to release an album on U.S. Verve, an anniversary album with cuts from the last 30 years of record production - and the appropriate title Jubilee.


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Karin Krog & Bergen Big Band - Seagull - 2006
Karin Krog & Dexter Gordon - Some Other Spring - 1970
Karin Krog & Jacob Young - Where Flamingos Fly - 2002
Karin Krog & John Surman - Bluesand - 1999
Karin Krog & Morten G. Larsen - In a Rag Bag - 2012
Karin Krog & Scott Hamilton - The Best Things In Life - 2016
Karin Krog - Don't Just Sing An Anthology 1963-1999 (2015)
Karin Krog - I Remember You - 1981
Karin Krog - Jazz Moments - 1966
Karin Krog - Something Borrowed... Something New - 1989
Karin Krog - You Must Believe In Spring - 1974
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