Festival organisers did audiences a big favour last weekend by offering the chance to re-evaluate familiar and often under-rated Welsh jazz musicians.

This was no more apparent than on Sunday, the last of the annual three-day event, when the Keith Little Band appeared on the main stage Enthused by the leader's all-action piano style, the band is ever more akin to one it clearly admires - the Alex Welsh Band of yesteryear with its trademark swinging dixieland.

The festival had not yet done with big bands, the one led by veteran Byron Jones contrasting with the Torfaen Youth one run and motivated for the last five years by Ceri Rees.

Mr Rees deserves a festival commendation for popping up in several places at the weekend, including in the Little band and as leader of the Capital City Jazz Orchestra. Without him, and people like him, Welsh jazz would be the poorer.

Bluesy Susie, who appeared in her own right on Saturday, turned up on Sunday as Susie Webb, conductor of the delightful Torfaen Music Centre Gospel Choir.

The Joe Webb Trio, another combination of students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, took the breath away with a maturity and inventiveness that belied their years.

The festival's final and headline act was The Numbers Racket, from Pembrokeshire, an all-action R&B group with serious jazz credentials, ready wit and natty outfits.

This was a festival assembled with imagination, presented with flair and conducted with the punter in mind, from car park security to sustaining refreshments between acts. Good on you all!