Albury's debut Australian Jazz Convention will end on Tuesday night with an increased number of delegates and young musicians.
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The event's executive taskforce president Chris Gildersleeve said the five-day program attracted 525 registrations and sold more than 400 session passes.
"We had 281 delegates, which was up 40 people from the previous convention," he said.
"And we had 244 musicians, that's senior and junior, which is down 12 on the previous convention but we're actually up 20 on young musicians."
Gildersleeve thanked all the venue managers for allowing the 74th annual convention to use their spaces.
"Albury's been extremely hospitable to us," he said.
Registrations for the 2020 convention, also to be held in Albury, are expected to open by the end of January.
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New Orleans guest artists Marla Dixon and Shaye Cohn performed in one of the final gigs at Commercial Club Albury on Tuesday afternoon.
The Close The Convention Band was pulled together for the set and, as singer and trumpeter Dixon joked, will look forward to a future reunion tour.
Song choices, keys and formats were decided on the spot, continuing a method employed by many bands throughout the convention.
"If I want to go back to the verse, I'll do this," Dixon told her fellow musicians while patting her head, a signal she did indeed bring out during the next number.
Dixon later told The Border Mail she hadn't known what to expect from her first convention and most of the musicians were new to her.
"So it ended up being very much like a week-long jam session which I will say, puts me right out of my element," she said.
"But everybody brought such joy and enthusiasm and such a great spirit to it, I had a really wonderful time.
"Seventy-four years strong, I look forward to being here for the 100th."
Normally a full-time member of two New Orleans bands that tour across the US and Europe, Dixon said the various changes of personnel were refreshing.
"You've got people of varying ages, varying abilities, professionals to amateurs," she said.
"What was constant was again the love and the passion for the music and that's honestly the most important thing."
She also enjoyed visiting Albury and swimming in the Murray River, with the delayed arrival of her luggage at least allowing "the chance to go shopping on Dean Street".
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