Emil de Waal, pictured above, is the country’s top drummer, having performed with and programmed, arranged and lead for anyone who’s anyone in Denmark, and many others from outside of the country. All told, he has appeared on more than 150 albums, and earned a Danish Jazz Grammy nomination. His latest project, Emil de Waal +, employs the computer as band member in a new and fresh way. Influential music magazine the Wire says that the group’s album features “a colourful parade of styles and sounds...It´s unclassifiable but no less fun for that.”