So do you have a problem with Charlie Parker's I.Q? For me, I don't really care about what Bird's I.Q. might have been, but rather the fact that he made music no one else had before. Do we care about his I.Q. when he played in a way that made many people change the way they thought about jazz? After a criticism of his playing, Bird spent twenty-four hours in the woodshed correcting his apparent mistakes. I am rarely prepared to make that sacrifice. My I.Q. is certainly above that of a typical year five student, however, if I could make the same impact on Jazz as Bird, I would surrender my brain. My mind may not be what is required for a Jazz great, but to argue about I.Q is to sugges that I have more of a sense of music than Bird. Much as I would like to be told so, I find such a suggestion almost offensie to my concept of music.