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Karin Krog

Karin Krog has been played over 60 times on NTS, first on 11 March 2015. Karin Krog's music has been featured on 68 episodes.

Karin Krog (born May 15, 1937 in Oslo) is a celebrated Norwegian jazz vocalist. She started to sing at an early age and in 1955 she was hired by the pianist Kjell Karlsen to sing in his sextet.

In 1962 she started her first group and that same year she become a student of the well-known Norwegian-American singer Anne Brown. Karin studied with Brown until 1969.

She is one of the first in Jazz to experiment with electronic vocal effects (loops, modulation, etc.), which can be heard in the "Gittin' To Y'All" album, which also features Terje Rypdal Group and a large ensemble featuring members of Art Ensemble of Chicago. In the 60s she began collaboration with a multi-read instrumentalist, pianist, composer John Surman. With Surman she issues a number of acclaimed albums, including "Cloud Line Blue", "Such Winters of Memory" (under Surman's name), "Nordic Quartet", "Freestyle","Bluesand", and "Seagull". In the 80s she established her own record label, Meantime Records, which has been actively acquiring her recordings that had been out of print in many countries. Two recordings of hers, "Hi-Fly" with Archie Shepp and "Blues and Ballads" with Dexter Gordon, own her the Best Jazz Vocal Awards from Swing Journal, the most authoritative jazz critic publication in Japan. She has also widely collaborated extensively with musicians in Europe and USA. Her list of collaborations include Don Ellis, Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen, Kenny Drew, Red Mitchell, Bengt Hallberg, Steve Kuhn, Steve Swallow, Palle, Danielsson, Tore Johansen, Jacob Young, David Frishberg, Terje Rypdal, and Palle Mikkelborg among others.

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Karin Krog

Karin Krog has been played over 60 times on NTS, first on 11 March 2015. Karin Krog's music has been featured on 68 episodes.

Karin Krog (born May 15, 1937 in Oslo) is a celebrated Norwegian jazz vocalist. She started to sing at an early age and in 1955 she was hired by the pianist Kjell Karlsen to sing in his sextet.

In 1962 she started her first group and that same year she become a student of the well-known Norwegian-American singer Anne Brown. Karin studied with Brown until 1969.

She is one of the first in Jazz to experiment with electronic vocal effects (loops, modulation, etc.), which can be heard in the "Gittin' To Y'All" album, which also features Terje Rypdal Group and a large ensemble featuring members of Art Ensemble of Chicago. In the 60s she began collaboration with a multi-read instrumentalist, pianist, composer John Surman. With Surman she issues a number of acclaimed albums, including "Cloud Line Blue", "Such Winters of Memory" (under Surman's name), "Nordic Quartet", "Freestyle","Bluesand", and "Seagull". In the 80s she established her own record label, Meantime Records, which has been actively acquiring her recordings that had been out of print in many countries. Two recordings of hers, "Hi-Fly" with Archie Shepp and "Blues and Ballads" with Dexter Gordon, own her the Best Jazz Vocal Awards from Swing Journal, the most authoritative jazz critic publication in Japan. She has also widely collaborated extensively with musicians in Europe and USA. Her list of collaborations include Don Ellis, Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen, Kenny Drew, Red Mitchell, Bengt Hallberg, Steve Kuhn, Steve Swallow, Palle, Danielsson, Tore Johansen, Jacob Young, David Frishberg, Terje Rypdal, and Palle Mikkelborg among others.

Original source: Last.fm

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The Meaning Of Love
Karin Krog, Steve Kuhn, Steve Swallow, Jon Christensen
Polydor1975
Just Holding On
Karin Krog
Light In The Attic2015
Meaning Of Love
Karin Krog
Crippled Dick Hot Wax!2002
The Meaning Of Love
Karin Krog
Enja Records2003
Freestyle
Karin Krog
Odin1986
As A Wife Has A Cow
Karin Krog
Light In The Attic2015
The Creators
Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Land, Bill Evans, Eddie Gomez, Archie Shepp, Karin Krog
Enja Records1973
Maiden Voyage
Karin Krog, John Surman, Albert Mangelsdorff, Francy Boland, Niels H.O. Pedersen, Daniel Humair
MPS Records1969
Hymn To Joy
Karin Krog
Odin1986
Just Holding On
Karin Krog
Seven Seas1995