
Sketches of Spain is considered to be one of the smoothest and most accessible albums of Davis's career, and remains controversial: the most recent edition of the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD describes it as “elevated light music”. Some contemporaries accused Davis of bowing to commercial pressure, or selling out, and suggested that Sketches of Spain was something other than jazz. Davis replied (according to Rolling Stone magazine) “it's music, and I like it”Tekið af wikipedia.