Editing Norman Granz (section)

==Personal life==
Granz married three times. In 1950, he married Loretta (née Snyder) Sullivan from Michigan; they had a daughter together, Stormont Granz, who was disabled due to lack of oxygen during the birth.<ref name=Hershorn /> Loretta was previously married and had a child, Sydney Sullivan Hamed, whom Granz adopted.<ref name=Hershorn /><ref>{{cite news|title=Loretta Granz Obituary |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=September 22, 2013 |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=loretta-granz&pid=167014898 |quote=Loretta Granz passed away peacefully in Beverly Hills, CA. She led a wonderful life doing what she loved. She is survived by two daughters and a son-in-law, Sheridan Sullivan (Amir Hamed) and Stormont Granz.}}</ref> They separated in 1953 and divorced in 1955.<ref name=Hershorn /> In 1965, he married Hannelore Granz, a former airline stewardess from Germany.<ref name=Hershorn>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3SxH9ybqdMC&pg=hannelore|first=Ted|last=Hershorn|title=Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice|publisher=[[University of California]] Press|date=October 17, 2011|isbn=9780520949775}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Court Rebuff to Impresario's Wife London |newspaper=The Kansas City Times |date=April 26, 1968 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/58665376/ |via=Newspapers.com |quote=Granz and his 26-year-old German-born wife, Hannelore, have been involved in divorce proceedings brought in Switzerland. Mrs. Granz had asked the high court to impound the collection on the grounds that she was entitled to a communal share. The court said no, holding that Switzerland does not recognize such communal property claims, as California does, for example. The Granzs were married in Las Vegas in 1965. |access-date=May 2, 2019 |archive-date=June 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619145446/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/58665376/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1974, he married Grete Lyngby from Denmark.<ref name=Hershorn />

Granz was also interested in art, developing a friendship with [[Pablo Picasso]], whom he met in 1968.<ref name=Hershorn />

Granz died of cancer on November 22, 2001, at the age of 83, in [[Geneva, Switzerland]].<ref name=obit>{{cite news |author=Richard Severo |title=Norman Granz, Who Took Jazz Out of Smoky Clubs and Put It in Concert Halls, Dies at 83 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/arts/norman-granz-who-took-jazz-smoky-clubs-put-it-concert-halls-dies-83.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date= November 27, 2001 }}</ref>

===Racial equality efforts===
Norman Granz opposed racism and fought many battles for his artists, many of whom were black. In 1955, in [[Houston]], he removed signs that previously designated "White" and "Negro" restrooms outside the auditorium where two concerts were to be performed by Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie. Between the two shows, Fitzgerald and Gillespie and [[Illinois Jacquet]] were shooting small-stakes dice in the dressing room to kill time, when the local police barged in and arrested them. After some negotiations, the artists were allowed to perform the second show and later were formally released on $50 bail. Granz was incensed by the incident and insisted on fighting the charges in court, which was successful but cost him over $2,000.<ref name=Hershorn />

[[Oscar Peterson]] recounted how Granz once insisted that white cabdrivers take his black artists as customers, while a policeman pointed a loaded pistol at his stomach. Granz also was among the first to pay white and black artists the same salary, and to give them equal treatment even in minor details such as dressing rooms. He insisted on equal treatment for singer [[Ella Fitzgerald]], in both pay and hotel accommodations.<ref name=":0">Jessica Bissett Perea. "Fitzgerald, Ella." ''Grove Music Online''. ''Oxford Music Online''. Oxford University Press. Web. October 10, 2017. [http://0-www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ignacio.usfca.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/A2275792]{{Dead link|date=February 2022|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

Granz also spearheaded the fight to desegregate the hotels and casinos in [[Las Vegas]], arguing that it was unfair that black artists could perform on the stages, but could not stay or gamble at the hotels, or even enter through the front doors.