The trustees and organisers were pleased with enhanced community focus this year, and with the festival's high visitor numbers.
"Our main aim was to engage communities and touch more people.
"The feedback we have had so far shows us that we have reached that goal," JazzFest trustee Peter Howe said.
The 2009 festival had fewer ticketed events than in previous years, but more free events at venues around the region, and a strong focus on the free concerts at the community stages at the Village Green and Earnslaw Park in Queenstown, Remarkables Park in Frankton and Buckingham Green, Arrowtown.
"All the community concerts were very well received and attracted good crowds, with the Neil Cowley Trio and the Brazilian group Tambolele being popular highlights," Mr Howe said.
On Labour Day, the organisers were busy collecting feedback from venues and performers.
While not all the ticketed events were completely sold out, early indications showed better sales than last year.
Mr Howe mentioned the big band event with Rodger Fox and Ray Woolf as this year's "gala event", at which the crowd danced the night away.
Another highlight was the tribute concert to local musician Mark Wilson, at which local artists played to a packed house at the Crowne Plaza hotel.
The organisers intend to make tribute concerts a permanent fixture.
"We would like to open every festival with a large concert as a tribute to either a person, a location or a style of jazz."
A broad spectrum of jazz and jazz-related styles characterised this year's programme, with blues as well as Latin-inspired music featuring.
Trustees would like to extend that.
"Queenstown has a large South American community, and that will have added to the great reception the Latin-based performers received, both at the free concerts and at the events at Revolver.
Next year, we would love to build on this and create more of a street party atmosphere throughout the festival," he said.
"It has been a very friendly festival, where all artists have been happy to interact with their audiences as well as with fellow performers.
"Several of the youngest performers have told me that they were very excited to get the chance to chat to some of the established musicians who have inspired them.
"Seeing the smiles on the faces of those young musicians who were up there performing for a large audience for the first time was simply priceless.
"It made all our hard work putting the festival together worthwhile," Mr Howe said.
