Here’s an unlikely concept album: Each of the eight songs clocks in at three minutes and 33 seconds. Hence, the record’s intriguing title. On 3’33 Treasure Hunt, French jazz-rock guitarist Jean-Pierre Llabador wrote six classy instrumentals and two soulful pop-centric songs with female vocals.
But then comes another twist: Llabador doesn’t perform any of them. As the bio sheet accompanying the record explains: Surviving a car crash and life-threatening health events in recent years … have robbed him of his ability to physically play guitars on his own album.” So Llabador -- a legend in his homeland who, along with his brother Jean-Claude, founded the French jazz-rock band Coincidence -- enlisted a stealthy group of musical friends to “execute and define” his music. Llabador produced everything, too, and it sounds crisp and fresh.
The result is a sparkling record of melodic, memorable, diverse and tasty jazz- and fusion-tinged rock songs, expertly performed. They don’t wear out their welcome, either. Indeed, the whole thing is over in about 29 minutes -- which might just give you enough time to play the album again.
Track Listing
1. Roses In Rhodes
2. Bowlywood
3. The Link
4. Long Beach
5. Betty On Franklin Avenue
6. Big Deal
7. Ghazaouet City
8. Blast
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