Karin Krog

Where You At? Karin Krog

Karin Krog is perhaps Norway's leading jazz singer and certainly its most idiomatic. She is a unique song artist with a great international reputation and possesses her own recognizable style and voice. Her constant creative approach towards contemporary jazz has never been bound by tradition, even though her music bears a deep respect for its forms. Karin is equally a capable performer of jazz standards as of blues or electronic experimental techniques. Her career began to take off with international tours, with noticeable visits to Warszaw and Prague in 1966, and in 1967 to Hamburg and Berlin, as well as the USA with Don Ellis and Clare Fischer. That same year she also appeared in Brussels and the following year in Montreux. Also in 1967 she received the first place nomination for 'Artist Deserving of Wider Recognition' in Down Beat critic's poll's. This resulted in tours of Europe in 1969 and Japan in 1970 with the Down Beat Poll Winners. During most of the 1970's she worked in small combinations, duos and trios, with prominent foreign musicians like John Surman, Red Mitchell, Dexter Gordon, Artie Shepp.