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A 16-foot concrete statue by sculptor James Simon shows a beret-wearing man playing a trumpet while a small dog looks up at him. Made in 2008, it stands in a small park at Buckeye Road and East 118th Street in Cleveland.
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Buckeye trumpet man and dog concrete statue
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Site-level location · 41.4807° N, 81.6009° W
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A silent trumpet player towers over a corner of Cleveland's Buckeye neighborhood where a parking lot once stood.
The Ohio Outdoor Sculpture database dates the work to 2008 and credits James Simon. It describes a 16-foot statue of a man in a beret playing the trumpet, with a small dog looking up at him. Simon's site calls it a concrete work made with the Buckeye Development Corp, Cleveland Public Art and Park-Works, and says the project turned a parking lot into a pocket park plaza that is home to the annual Buckeye Jazz Festival.
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An outdoor concrete statue in a small neighborhood park at Buckeye Road and East 118th Street, with ceramic benches and murals (Every Street Cleveland, 2025). A volunteer who tends the park was quoted by Freshwater Cleveland in 2021, and the sculptor's site describes an annual jazz festival held there.
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Corner of Buckeye Road and East 118th Street, Cleveland (Freshwater Cleveland listed the park at 17720 Buckeye Road in 2021). An open outdoor neighborhood park.
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