Ruminating with DON ROSE
The legendary Chicagoan on MLK,Jr. the infamous 1968 Democratic Convention and jazz greats he knew.
I don’t remember first meeting Don Rose but it was sometime when I was a kid. My late parents—Jim and Joanne Alter— were North Side “lakefront liberals” and they traveled in the same circles. Whenever I talk to Don now, I always think of two momentous years in Chicago: 1966 and 1968.
In the spring of 1966, I was eight-years-old and my parents ho…