Du New Morning au Zénith is a 1994 double album

Double album

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 recorded live by Carole Fredericks

Carole Fredericks

Carole Denise Fredericks was an American singer most famous for her recordings in France. Carole emerged from the shadow of her brother, the legendary blues musicologist Taj Mahal, to achieve fame and popularity in Europe and the French-speaking world...

, Jean-Jacques Goldman

Jean-Jacques Goldman

Jean-Jacques Goldman is a Grammy Awards-winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and since 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French living pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday.- Biography :...

 and Michael Jones. Composed of 31 tracks, it contains many successful songs from Goldman's previous albums and from the trio's two studio albums Fredericks Goldman Jones and Rouge. It was released on 18 May 1995 and was successful in francophone countries.

Recording and releases

It was recorded between the 26 April 1994 and the 12 June 1994, first at the New Morning

New Morning (club)

New Morning is a Parisian music nightclub that opened in 1981, specialising in jazz and blues.Its concerts are often featured on Mezzo TV.-History:The first concert was given on 16 April 1981 by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers....

 in Paris (the first 14 tracks of the first CD), then during the Rouge concert tour, at the Summum in Grenoble

Grenoble

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 and at the ice rink of Malley in Lausanne

Lausanne

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.

The money raised by the four concerts at the New Morning in April 1994 was donated to Amnesty International

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. During the show, a cover version of Aretha Franklin

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's song "Think" was performed.

In 2006, 14 performances from the album were included on a DVD

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 box set Souvenirs de tournée - Du New Morning au Zénith.

Chart performances

In France, the album went straight to number-two on 14 May 1995 and remained there for four consecutive weeks, being unable to dislodge Céline Dion

Celine Dion

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's D'eux

D'eux

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which was atop then. It totaled 16 weeks in the top ten and 26 weeks on the chart (top 50). It earned a Platinum disc

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 for over 300,000 copies sold.

In Belgium (Wallonia), the album peaked at number two for two weeks and stayed for 24 weeks in the top 50. It was ranked for five weeks in the top 50 in Belgium (Flanders).

Disc 1

1. "Veiller tard" (Goldman) — 5:44
2. "Ne lui dis pas" (Goldman) — 5:50
3. "Quelque chose de bizarre" (Goldman) — 3:57
4. "Jeanine médicament blues" (Goldman) — 4:36
5. "Il part" (Goldman) — 4:46
6. "Il y a" (Goldman) — 5:03
7. "P'tit blues peinard" (Goldman) — 3:33
8. "Confidentiel" (Goldman) — 3:33
9. "C'est pas d'l'amour" (Goldman) — 5:59
10. "Un, deux, trois" (Goldman) — 4:01
11. "Pas toi
    Pas toi
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    " (Goldman) — 5:23
12. "Think" (Franklin, White) — 2:50
13. "Knock on Wood" (Floyd, Stephen) — 3:47
14. "Tobacco Road" (Loudermilk) — 5:30
15. "Serre-moi" [début] (Goldman) — 3:09
16. "Des vôtres" (Goldman) — 3:45
17. "Envole-moi" (Goldman) — 5:35

Disc 2

1. "Que disent les chansons du monde ?" (Goldman) — 6:04
2. "Comme toi" (Goldman) — 4:41
3. "Être le premier" (Goldman) — 6:18
4. "Je commence demain" (Goldman) — 5:19
5. "Des vies" (Goldman) — 5:51
6. "On n'a pas changé" (Goldman) — 7:18
7. "Frères" (Goldman) — 5:44
8. "Juste après" (Goldman) — 5:22
9. "À nos actes manqués
   À nos actes manqués
   "À nos actes manqués" is a 1991 song recorded by the French trio Jean-Jacques Goldman, Carole Fredericks and Michael Jones . Released as the second single from their eponymous album, the song was one of the summer hits in France and was the trio's most successful single in terms of ranks on the...
   
   " (Goldman) — 4:22
10. "Fermer les yeux" (Goldman) — 8:33
11. "Il suffira d'un signe" (Goldman) — 4:25
12. "Rouge" (Goldman) — 6:47
13. "Puisque tu pars
    Puisque tu pars
    "Puisque tu pars" is a 1987 song recorded by the French singer Jean-Jacques Goldman. It was released in July 1988 as the fourth single from his album Entre gris clair et gris foncé, on which it features as the sixth track in an extended version...
    
    " (Goldman) — 2:49
14. "Serre-moi [fin](Goldman) — 2:56

Personnel

• Beckie Bell, Yvone Jones – chorus
• Erick Benzi
  Erick Benzi
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   – percussion
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• Jacky Mascarel, Philippe Grandvoinet – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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• Claude Le Perron – bass
• Christophe Deschamps – drum kit
  Drum kit
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• Micheal Jones – guitar
  Guitar
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• Claude Gassian – booklet
• Tom Lord-Alge – engineer, mixing
• Jean Remy Mazenc – multi instruments
• Andy Scott – mixing
• Alain Aboulker, Pierre Buisson, Christian Desille, Emmanuel Goulet, Frédéric Perrinet, Rene Weis – assistants
• Yannick Wild, Alexis Grosbois – producer

Release history

Date	Label	Region	Format	Catalog
18 May 1985	Columbia	France, Belgium, Switzerland	Double CD	480308
2000	JRC			4803082

Charts

Chart (1995)	Peak position
Belgian (Flanders) Albums Chart	31
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart	2
French Albums Chart	2

End of year chart (1995)	Position
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart	14
French Albums Chart	8