Idon't suppose anyone chooses to be a paedophile. A boy who was agood friend of mine at school got into trouble for this perversion. I'd lost contact with him, by the time it happened but I was shocked and saddened to hear of his suicide.

Jean Pierre Lion revealed in his Biography of the jazz trumpeter that Bix narrowly avoided prosecution for a paedophile incident in his teens. Previous biographers had presented him as a sort of character from a Norman Rockwell painting - all cookies and prom nights.

So are you going to burn all his albums, demand that he's excluded from YOutube, feign outrage, when we all know such men and women exist?
Do we forget he was divinely talented?
Just count yourself lucky that you weren't born prey to such abnormal desires.