Louis Armstrong's statue in Hungary
Adjured and financed by the Foundation for Swing Jazz Culture in Bánk, in 2004 during the First Louis Armstrong Jazz Festival a bust depicting Louis Armstrong had been inaugurated.
The statue is settled in Tó Wellness Hotel’s park.
The statue was made by sculptor Lajos Győrfi.
The artist shaped the epoch-making jazz musician’s portrait with immense empathy, love and respect.
He set the statue on a dainty piece of torn andesit so that the trumpet’s position won’t perturb the mimicry’s emergence whilst the fingers’ work is still visible.
The round faces, the huge vibrating eyes, the rhythm of the fingers truly vivify this figure. The instrument is an axis which links the two liveliest parts of the composition: head and hands. The trumpet, the manuals and the fingers are stirring.
The figure is made of bronze. It is a 4 to 5 life-size.
The andesit is of Kisnána, the caption is etchworked: LOUIS ARMSTRONG.
The artist shaped the great jazz musician as a middle-aged man blowing the trumpet.
Our video, including inauguration of the statue is available in our YouTube Channel.
"Jazz is something Negroes invented, and it said the most profound things -- not only about us and the way we look at things, but about what modern democratic life is really about. It is the nobility of the race put into sound ... jazz has all the elements, from the spare and penetrating to the complex and enveloping. It is the hardest music to play that I know of, and it is the highest rendition of individual emotion in the history of Western music."
Wynton Marsalis