Karin Krog, Archie Shepp

condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (some yellowing on top front and back)

Obi and insert included.

1976, Oslo: the unexpected and wonderful meeting of Archie Shepp and Norwegian vocal master Karin Krog - fire music royalty and Scandinavian jazz singing's great modernist, finding common ground in standards, blues and freer terrain. Krog was always braver than the vocal-jazz mainstream around her, and Shepp responds to that courage with real tenderness: the tenor wraps around her lines rather than competing with them, and the intimacy is genuine from first track to last. A record that shouldn't work on paper and works completely on vinyl. Originally on the Norwegian Compendium label, here in a Japanese pressing - the collectors' route to a quiet classic.