Australian Jazz Convention attendees voted with a show of hands at Commercial Club Albury for the city to host the 75^th event in 2020.

The annual general meeting, held on the second-last day of this year's convention, also chose Newcastle as the site for the 76^th staging.

Albury Council events team leader Ros Walls said something special would be planned to mark the 75^th anniversary.

"The amazing success of this convention this year and the support of our business and community has been so appreciated by all the delegates and musicians," she said.

"It's a credit to our community and our business community that they've supported it so well and we're just very delighted to have it back again."

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Albury's opponent in the bid was Ballarat, which hosted last year's convention.

"The pitch this year was more about 'OK you're here, you've loved it'," Ms Walls said.

"We got a turn and now we can do an even better second year and make it a very exciting and special 75th anniversary for them."

Sad Dixie by Steve Jewell won the convention's original tunes competition on Monday in the Commercial Club Albury auditorium.

The judging panel listened to the entries without learning the names of the composers or musicians.

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Adelaide's Paul van der Koogh played clarinet in the band that presented Jewell's winning composition.

"It's a minor tune with a happy bounce to it," he said.

"Most tunes are in the traditional jazz genre, (but) the jazz convention is branching out into other areas of jazz to be able to survive and grow."

The musician estimated he's attended about 30 of the last 37 conventions and found "plenty of positives" from holding it in Albury.

"The weather's been a bit of a challenge with the heat but all the venues have been good, the locals have been welcoming and numbers have been up a bit as well from what I've heard," van der Koogh said.

"It's been a chance to play with some new people, meet some new musicians, play with some old faces and new faces."

In the original tunes competition, Paul Furniss, of Gosford, played You Name It on clarinet, accompanied by keyboard, a piece he composed during the year.

"I was just at home one day when things were quiet," he said.

"Something just popped in my head and I thought, oh well, where does that lead?"

Furniss has enjoyed this year's convention although "you can overcommit yourself".

"People ask you will you be in this band, will you be in that band, which means, well, I'm playing four times in a row and you've got to get from one to the other," he said.