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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.
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.
 

Karin Krog & Jacob Young - Where Flamingos Fly - 2002
Karin Krog - Free Style - 1985
Karin Krog - Gershwin with Karin Krog - 1974
Karin Krog - One On One - 1997
Karin Krog - Raindrops, Raindrops - 2002
Karin Krog - Two Of A Kind - 1982
Karin Krog - We Could Be Flying - 1974

NB: 11 andere albums reeds eerder gepost.