Pianist Håvard Wiik, a Norwegian native who lives in Berlin, is best known for his key role in the Scandinavian free-bop quintet Atomic, for which he writes much of the material. In that context he’s exhibited a strong interest in 20th-century classical music (you can’t miss his love for Morton Feldman), but his roots are in jazz, and he leans hard on that tradition on last year’s This Is Not a Waltz (Moserobie), his first album in more than a decade with his long-running trio, which includes bassist Ole Morten Vågan and drummer Håkon Mjåset Johansen.…
Pianist Håvard Wiik, a Norwegian native who lives in Berlin, is best known for his key role in the Scandinavian free-bop quintet Atomic, for which he writes much of the material. In that context he’s exhibited a strong interest in 20th-century classical music (you can’t miss his love for Morton Feldman), but his roots are in jazz, and he leans hard on that tradition on last year’s This Is Not a Waltz (Moserobie), his first album in more than a decade with his long-running trio, which includes bassist Ole Morten Vågan and drummer Håkon Mjåset Johansen.…