Miki Yamanaka, the young Japanese pianist, organist and composer, moved to New York to study and play in 2012 and has since become a popular regular at Big Apple boltholes like Small's and the Mezzrow Jazz Club. She's worked with such New York jazz A-listers as Steve Nelson, Antonio Hart and Peter Bernstein, and her 2018 album Miki, featuring vibist Nelson, prompted DownBeat to enthusiastically trace the 'unique buoyancy across her jubilant debut'. But if Yamanaka is already a seasoned small-band collaborator, she's also an audacious performer in the most intimately conversational contexts, like this drumless one with regular bassist Orlando le Fleming, and a very free-spirited Mark Turner on tenor sax. The set was scheduled to be recorded at Mezzrow, until lockdowns obliged it to be made at home, but it seems to have lost nothing in vivacity for that. Yamanaka trips and skips through Charlie Parker's blues 'Cheryl' – introducing it alone its darting fast lines and percussive chordwork, full of stop-starts and rhythm bends until le Fleming arrives with the groove. 'My Melancholy Baby' is sketched in rippling arpeggios, trills, and hopping low-note asides, and Steve Swallow's 'Eiderdown' draws a startling solo from Turner - built in successive choruses launched from constantly changing rhythmic and structural angles - while Yamanaka's break highlights her engaging habit of switching back and forth from lissome swing to marionette-twitch spikiness. 'Ask Me Now' is a standout version of the Monk classic, while the leader's two originals on the eight-track set list - the musingly serpentine 'Wonder' and 'Oatmeal' - show why this original artist's stock is rising as a distinctive composer as well as a quirkily articulate improviser.