A former music critic for The Dallas Morning News, Michael Cochran, once wrote a column about the "most overrated musicans" of all time, and included Bird (as well as Otis Redding!) on the list. His blurb was something along the lines of: "Sounded like he was making it all up as he went along. Guess what? He was."
Yeah, THAT'S astute criticism!
Just goes to show that Music critic standard for the Dallas Morning News aren't terribly high? Why not hire that dog that knows 200 words?