Re: [Harp-L] Michael Polesky

[Vern <jevern@xxxxxxx>]

After her mentor, Ray Tankersley, died; Michael played second harmonica with Cynthia Dusel-Bacon on SPAH open-mic jazz duets. He was a cordial and generous contributor to the harmonica community.

Vern 


On Nov 27, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Joseph Leone wrote:

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> On Nov 26, 2011, at 6:54 PM, Mick Zaklan wrote:
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>>  Horrible news.  Michael was one of the nicest, sweetest guys I ever met
>> at a SPAH convention.  Always up for playing.  He would roll into the blues
>> jam after the jazz jam closed down and lay down some very hip chromatic.
>> Always positive, upbeat, and as cordial as you could get.  Terrible loss.
>> 
>> Mick Zaklan
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> So I arrived home, turned on the computer, and immediately turned it off. Head hung low, I slinked to the garage. 
>> From the very first time I met Michael, I immediately felt a megnetism. A warmth. A graceful caring person. Someone whom wasn't too good to talk to you.
> And it didn't matter what your race, religion, creed, condition, status, talent, I.Q., nor education was. To him we were all God's children and worthy of respect.
> 
> To me Michael was like the Christmas that I got my Red Ryder bb gun. He was like the first time I held a girl in my arms, felt her heart beat, and smelled her hair, and kissed her. Electricity. Why do I feel this way? I lost my own best friend Michael Wisniewski at age 39. We shared all our dreams, fears, and secrets. Yes, Michael Polesky was out of the same mold. He was warmth. He was magnetism. He was life. He was love. He can NEVER be replaced. 
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> I would have been proud to have had Michael as a brother. So that's the way I'm going to remember him. I lost a little brother. I grieve for his family. What a loss. 
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> smokey-joe
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