When you attend a ‘Maltby Dance Date,’ you have every reason to expect something different. That something is the energetic drive and subtle taste that stem from Richard Maltby’s many years as a conductor, composer and arranger. Here then, from blues to beguine, from jump to jazz novelty, is music you can dance or listen to, whatever you desire, on a ‘Maltby Dance Date.’ The first one’s a shouter… a rocking Mayhem In Minor that rends the air with rumbling bass notes, trumpet riffs and a riotous interpretation. Purple Shadows which follows, is the exact opposite. It’s a sentimental blues with a drag-along beat that features Toots Mondello on sax. The orchestra literally tunes up again in the next, fast-moving selection, Sound Your ‘A’:’ In this jazz novelty, the piano sounds the pitch, as the drums sneak in softly with a shuffle beat, and the woodwinds, brasses and strings come in for some practice scales. From the strictly modern sounds we switch to the nostalgia-scented romance-in-the-moonlight theme. This p