Mr Quayle said the show was "beautifully complimented" by Friday night's show by the Shake-'Em-On-Downers, a youthful, high-energy dixie jazz group from Wellington.
"They had the old town hall swinging, swaying and dancing to their modern interpretations of jazz standards and their original tunes."
The festival started on Thursday evening with a jazz-for-jazz-lovers show at the Village Cafe, where a sell-out crowd took in a tribute to the Nat King Cole era.
This was performed by Wellington drum-less trio Ol' King Cole, which is led by pianist Louis Thompson-Munn and augmented by the "sultry and powerful tones" of Stephanie Bishop.
"There are so many highlights of the rest of the festival, it is hard to describe them all," said Mr Quayle.
"We had duos, trios, quartets, quintets and solo artists from Wellington, Christchurch and Wairarapa entertaining large numbers of jazz and music lovers during the festival's four days."
On Sunday morning, a jazz combo of Year 12 and 13 St Matthew's students played to a big crowd at the Village Cafe.
This included a "crowd-pleasing" rendition of the classic Gershwin tune Summertime.
The festival closed on Sunday with the return of the Martinborough Community Choir, and in an innovation for the festival, a guitar workshop.
The festival's top guitarists - Sam Cooke, Leigh Jackson, Bob Cooper-Grundy and Ashton Sellars - led a small and appreciative group of guitar lovers through a brief experiential history of the guitar, paying particular attention to the development of guitar styles and guitar sounds.
