Google honors Dizzy Gillespie with Google Doodle

Those yellowed lots on his face are the notable balloon cheeks that would inflate each time Gillespie would position lips to trumpet. On Thursday, the jazz great became the latest ethnical icon to be honoured with a doodle on Google's homepage in laurels of his 93rd natal day.

Gillespie was a cornet player and composer who helped take bebop and Afro-Cuban jazz to the masse shots through his performances and recordings. He was a contemporaneous of Charlie Parker, with whom he defended bop as a new American musical art form.

Famous for his inflatable cheeks, Gillespie cut down a memorable design on the phase and was a prolific concert performing artist up until his death in 1993 at eld 75.

Wynton Marsalis paid tribute Thursday to Gillespie on Facebook, writing that "Dizzy was a great dancer, teacher, wit, and spiritual presence. He believed in consolidating musicians and the music, in celebrating and extending its traditions and in bringing its enlightening impact to as many people as possible as often as possible."

Other cultural figures who have doodled by Google include Igor Stravinsky, Frida Kahlo, Wayne Thiebaud, Josef Franck and Isaac Albéniz.