Volume 70.1 (2025)

As the youngest of nine siblings who grew up in a small community in rural Lower Saxony, Berndt was not born with an interest in the United States of America.But when he first heard the "Jazz Hour" presented by Willis Conover on The Voice of America radio station in the 1950s, featuring this rousing, originally American music, he was immediately captivated by it and its country of origin.