Michael Leonhart, Chris Greene and Catherine Russell are part of the latest edition of Five for the Road, an occasional look at music that’s been in my car lately.

St. Louis-based guitarist Scott T. Jones has recently made a record that fully captures the spirit, style and finesse of the late British axe maestro Allan Holdsworth.

Here is “I Didn’t Mean It,” a new smooth groovin’ single from jazz-pop songstress Lindsey Webster with a nice assist from Brian Culbertson’s trombone.

Sometimes you want great chops and sometimes you just want good time music. Scary Goldings’ ‘IV’ has got both covered.

On Burnt Belief’s ‘Mutual Isolation,’ the music takes another step forward in the band’s progression with a relative ‘back to basics’ approach. That’s all due to the limitless creativity and musicianship of Colin Edwin and Jon Durant.

In the 45 years since Pat Metheny’s debut album arrived, I haven’t gone many weeks (if even days) without listening. Yet there are still new revelations.

Once again with ‘Windows of Time,’ Wertico Cain & Gray make instant music with all the creativity and none of the mess, and they don’t even have to be in the same room to do it.

There are now lots of practitioners of the electro-acoustic, rock-oriented style of jazz that Eivind Aarset and a few others pioneered. He’s still the best.

Ethan Chilton’s “Caldera” a funky little fusion number that’s an alluring outlier track from ‘The Planets,’ an album full of alluring outlier tracks.

A depth of knowledge that comes from long-term research, and Curt Bianchi’s passion for the music of Weather Report, is evident on every page.