Karin Krog

Karin Krog is a Norwegian jazz singer and composer, born in Oslo in 1937. She began singing in Oslo jam sessions as a teenager and joined Kjell Karlsen's sextet in 1955. She is known for her long partnership with British saxophonist John Surman and for albums made with American musicians such as Dexter Gordon, Archie Shepp and Steve Kuhn. Krog made her first album, By Myself, for Philips in 1964. Some Other Spring (1970), recorded with Dexter Gordon for Sonet, was named record of the year in Japan in 1971.