What if it's raining.....?

Hmm..... it's been a while since I made a post that wasn't the title of a song. But I was thinking that you might want one for a change. For those of you that haven't been reading my blog for months, these are posts where I'm telling you something related to music that I know or think, and I don't actually have a song attached to it.

You might notice that the title says "rain," and you might be wondering if this blog is really about music after all. But the title, "Tea with Liya" has nothing to do with rain, unless I'm sitting inside my house drinking tea and waiting for the rain to stop so I can go for my walk. I suppose the title has nothing to do with music either, but that's why I tacked on the "A Blog about Music" part.

Now let me get down to the point.

Mixed-Up Rag

Yeah, I know. I haven't published a song like this in a while. I've been busy with jazz and my 5-month-old YouTube channel (I gave you a button redirecting to it, right?) and have forgotten a little bit about variety on my blog. You might be looking for something different and you're getting a bit tired of the tags saying "Jazz" for weeks on end, so I've decided that I'll give you something different.

(I didn't actually decide that today - I wrote down my posting dates for these songs a few months in advance. It's difficult to run a blog without a schedule.)

So, you're wondering why this song is supposed to be so mixed up, right?

Summer Samba

There was a change of times and a change of seasons a few months ago, so I decided that this would be a good song to share with you today.  As usual, I probably found this song while listening to the jazz radio. I liked it, wrote it down, listened to it again on YouTube at a later time, learned it, recorded it, and finally posted it today. (Actually, there should be listening in between each stage. Are you listening to a song now? You know that I'm the one to tell you that you should always be listening to songs. If there's no music around you, take a second to go down to the play button for the song, click it, and come back right here.) Sometimes the songs don't make it through all these stages, but you'll see the ones that do in future posts.

Now's the Time

.....for what? Depending on where you live, the past few days might have been some of celebration for you. So you could say that now's the time to celebrate, if you wanted to. If there's flags to be waved, fireworks to explode, and money to be made by the city hosting the party, then why wouldn't now be the time?