Merging up-tempo house music with a more creative acid jazz style, electronica group A Man Called Adam seems much more easy-going than their name suggests. The mellow jazz-house band performs the type of music that has most likely been played around the world through airwaves, streaming into everything from coffeehouses and shopping centers to lounges and fashion shows.Londoners Sally Rodgers and Steve Jones formed A Man Called Adam as a jazz band in 1987, harnessing Rodgers' smooth vocals and Jones' extensive knowledge of jazz music. The group's jazzy style slowly became more pop-oriented in the ‘90s with the appeal of dance music, and when Paul Daley joined the band the group signed with Acid Jazz Records, the band's hit songs started appearing. "A.P.B." and "Earthly Powers" were A Man Called Adam's first hit singles. The band's debut full-length album The Apple was released in 1991, just after Daley exited the group. Rodgers and Jones eventually formed their own label, Other Records, and continued to pump out their acid jazz hits from there.By the late 1990s, A Man Called Adam had hit the jackpot. The duo came to realize their jazz-house music was a perfect match for the soundtrack of Ibiza, the island off Spain known for its best-of-the-world dance clubs and up-all-night ragers. The band's 1998 release Duende went for a more up-tempo dance-inspired style, and it hit enormous heights in the house realm. Hit singles like "Easter Song," "Estelle" and "All My Favourite People (Stay With Me)" were huge hits on Ibiza dance floors, and A Man Called Adam struck up an unimaginable fan base from there. 2005 brought another different kind of music for the jazz duo. Space Tranquil, Vol. 1 was just that; an album full of mellow space-inspired acid jazz that A Man Called Adam can easily perfect.
