Marcus Miller’s Blue Note debut is one of the hottest prospects in terms of jazz releases in 2015. What else is coming up?

There’s a new album in the pipeline from pianist Liam Noble to be released by The Impossible Gentlemen’s label Basho. Smiling Organizm’s Robin Goodie is even better than their first album. And Troyka make their own kind of Eton mess with Ornithophobia, again a seriously absorbing prog-jazz listen. Tigran has moved to a new major and his new album Mockroot will come out in February on Nonesuch, and released in other parts of Europe but not officially in the UK yet pianist Igor Gehenot’s latest trio album with new bassist Philippe Aerts on board the Glasper-grade Motion comes a few years on from Road Story.

New albums too from Rudresh Mahanthappa and Marius Neset aiming to consolidate their achievements to date should light up the scene. And Jack DeJohnette, Chris Potter, Anouar Brahem, and Vijay Iyer also release new music. Watch out for a hot new free into improv album from Bourne-Davis-Kane drummer Steve Davis appearing with the Taborn-esque new US piano star in the making Kris Davis (no relation) and trumpet don Ralph Alessi. And finally Scandi improv heavyweights Atomic (The Thing’s Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, saxist Fredrik Ljungkvist, trumpeter Magnus Broo, pianist Håvard Wiik and drummer Hans Hulbœkmo) release their thirteenth album Lucidity in March. Prick up your ears.