Maltby's on the go again with a vari-textured collection which retains both the discipline and bounce that earmarks so much of his musical approach. Displaying its unusual versatility, his orchestra now forges ahead with vitality on the up-tempo tunes, now pauses expressively for a meaningful ballad. Here then is your invitation to join the joy ride and listen to old favourites that are pulsatingly fresh, and new favourites that are illuminated by a decided originality. The free-booting drive of the clipper ship chantey, Blow The Man Down has all hands jumping on the bandstand – and for good reason, too. The landfall just sighted is the 50th State – Hawaii, and there the orchestra and chorus experience a tropical splendour under a Hawaiian Moon. Another moon caught in its watery reflection is the one midwesterner Maltby favors – the dreamy fox trot lilt of a Lazy Mississippi Moon. The maestro then continues on to pay tribute to the city he now considers his home – New York City. Three tunes vividly grasp the