The new release from Japanese pianist Yoko Miwa has an appealing lockdown title. Who couldn't do with a little joy right about now? And this 11-cut disc certainly delivers on its titular promise.

The recording comes out of Miwa's response to the pandemic, which, the Berklee professor explains, was to compose every day. Accordingly there are five new originals, paired with six covers. ‘The one emotion that unites all the songs is one of JOY,' Miwa says, not at all misleadingly: there's a splendid, irrepressible energy about these tracks.

The Miwa original ‘Largo Desolato' may seem to hold out six minutes or so of gloomy introspection, but although it explores a more minor mood, it does so with such propulsive poise and inventive wit, it may well still get you up on your feet and dancing. Investigating a variety of styles with great boppish flair, Miwa had promised a set containing everything ‘from Monk to Zeppelin', and indeed there's the former's ‘Think Of One' and Anne Bredon's ‘Babe I'm Gonna Leave You', tumultuously rendered by Page, Plant and company on the first Zep album and here delivered in cascadingly joyful fashion. Ahmad Jamal has declared himself a fan – if you don't already know Miwa's work, it's well worth discovering.