Quartet 1

Name: Quartet 1
Price: 19.99 USD
Rating: 4.2 (41 reviews)
Author: UK Music Apps Ltd

Live jazz standards play along

$19.99 · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

41 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Music
Developer

UK Music Apps Ltd
Language

EN
English
Size

2.1
GB

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Practice and perform jazz standards on another level with Quartet. Volume 1 includes 150 stunning jazz standards recorded exclusively by 7 of the world’s best jazz musicians. All ‘live’ studio recordings with intros and endings. Whether you play jazz piano, guitar, saxophone, trumpet, bass, drums…simply mute your instrument from the Quartet for the ultimate jazz play along. And for jazz singers too, each edition of Quartet is an unrivalled collection of jazz backing tracks powerful enough to gig with. Change key on the fly. Speed up or slow down the audio seamlessly using the very latest audio technology. Loop sections and slow them right down for practice. Improve your skills with full screen animated chord diagrams for Piano, Guitar and Ukulele. With the new ‘Search+’ feature, you can build multi-app playlists using any of the songs from any of the 5 editions of Quartet that you own. Playlists are automated and auto-sync across each of your Quartet apps. And once you’ve got songs just the way you want them, export the stereo mixes in seconds (free) or export the multitrack to remix or develop the separated parts in whatever DAW you use (each multitrack is delivered to you as a GarageBand project via a low cost in app purchase). Either way, all 150 recordings are offered to you royalty-free, giving you endless creative possibilities. The 150 jazz standards in Quartet Volume 1 include improvisations in the style of… ‘All Blues’, ‘All of Me’, ‘All The Things You Are’, ‘Autumn Leaves’, ‘Beautiful Love’, ‘Blue Bossa’, ‘Body and Soul’, ‘Caravan’, ‘Cherokee’, ‘Cry Me a River’, ‘Georgia on my Mind’, ‘Giant Steps’, ‘Girl From Ipanema’, ‘Have You Met Miss Jones?’, ‘Love for Sale’, ‘Rhythm Changes’, ‘Satin Doll’, ‘Someday My Prince Will Come’, ‘Stella By Starlight’, ‘Summertime’…and 130 more. You can install Quartet on your iOS devices plus your Mac (‘Apple silicon’ M series chips) at no extra cost. Quartet Volume 1. Take your jazz standards play along to another level! Hear more at www.quartetapp.com Featured artists on Quartet Volume 1 Saxophones and Flutes Graeme Blevins Recording and performing credits include Phil Collins, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue, Kyle Eastwood, Mark Knopfler, Quincy Jones, Mark Ronson, Tom Jones, Taylor Swift, Martha Reeves, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra… Andy Panayi Credits include Shirley Bassey, Jessye Norman, Paul McCartney, Seth MacFarlane, Elaine Paige, Salena Jones, Elvis Costello, Georgie Fame, Irene Reed, Elaine Delmar, Helen Shapiro, Madeline Bell, Patty Austin, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Joe Lovano, Roy Hargrove... Dave O’Higgins Credits include Joey Calderazzo, Joe Locke, Dave Kikoski, Eric Alexander, Grant Stewart, Max Ionata, Phil Dwyer, Adam Nussbaum, Joe Lovano, Phil Woods, Jimmy Smith, Nancy Wilson, Peggy Lee, Kurt Elling, Wayne Shorter, Eddie Gomez, Jamie Cullum, Stephane Grappelli, Michel Legrand… Piano Graham Harvey Credits include Incognito (MD), Stacey Kent, George Benson, M People, Hamish Stuart, Will Lee, The Jones Girls, Philip Bailey, Chaka Khan, The BBC Big Band, Omar, Madeline Bell, Jocelyn Brown, Mica Paris, Kenny Thomas, Sir Cliff Richard… Bass Geoff Gascoyne Recording, performing and production credits include Jamie Cullum (MD), Sting, Van Morrison, Bill Bruford, Mari Wilson, Paloma Faith, Georgie Fame, Gloria Estefan, Guy Barker, Charlie Watts, Chris Standring, Everything But The Girl, Benny Golson, Jacqui Dankworth, Bob Dorough, John Martyn, Claire Martin, Eartha Kitt… Drums Sebastiaan de Krom Credits include Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Phil Woods, Dave Holland, Jamie Cullum, Guy Barker, Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry, Tim Garland’s Big Band... Rod Youngs Credits include Gil Scott-Heron, Lee Konitz, Sia, Courtney Pine, Jon Hendricks, Hugh Masekela, Carleen Anderson, Natalie Cole, Bennie Maupin, Mica Paris, Denys Baptiste, Abdullah Ibrahim, Juliet Roberts, BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronnie Laws, Jocelyn Brown...

A Closer Look

Ratings & Reviews

4.2

out of 5

41 Ratings

Game changer app for jazz musicians! However…
05/08/2025

QuestchenMusic
As a jazz musician myself, the Quartet apps are so much more motivating to practice with than iReal Pro. The fact that these are REAL musicians playing these tunes is SO good; it’s basically like having the Jamey Aebersold tracks on your phone! However, I’ve noticed quite a few gripes that are preventing me from giving it a full 5 stars.One thing that I think NEEDS to be fixed is a pretty major issue when you’re changing keys. I get that it’s basically putting a pitch shifter on the recording, but why do the drums have to be pitch shifted as well? That alone makes the tracks sound really tinny as you go to a “higher” key than the original and that should not be happening (iReal does not have this issue). Also, I personally think the prices of exporting the track stems is a bit much…especially after already paying for the apps themselves. I do understand the distribution licensing, but I feel that we should be able to export at least the tracks without the soloist in the quartet for personal use. Other than that, AMAZING apps, these are definitely replacing iReal as a practice tool for me!
Game changer app for jazz musicians! However…
05/08/2025

QuestchenMusic

As a jazz musician myself, the Quartet apps are so much more motivating to practice with than iReal Pro. The fact that these are REAL musicians playing these tunes is SO good; it’s basically like having the Jamey Aebersold tracks on your phone! However, I’ve noticed quite a few gripes that are preventing me from giving it a full 5 stars.One thing that I think NEEDS to be fixed is a pretty major issue when you’re changing keys. I get that it’s basically putting a pitch shifter on the recording, but why do the drums have to be pitch shifted as well? That alone makes the tracks sound really tinny as you go to a “higher” key than the original and that should not be happening (iReal does not have this issue). Also, I personally think the prices of exporting the track stems is a bit much…especially after already paying for the apps themselves. I do understand the distribution licensing, but I feel that we should be able to export at least the tracks without the soloist in the quartet for personal use. Other than that, AMAZING apps, these are definitely replacing iReal as a practice tool for me!
Great idea but needs some refinement
09/05/2025

J-D. Sauser (Pedal Steel C6th)
I LOVED the concept at once, I was sold in minutes. I don’t mind the price and buying more tunes either. What I think is a total miss is that most songs are sampled for their “original” tempo. For PRACTICE one will typically start working at a slower, often even MUCH slower tempo… but the sample rate (recording quality) is just about sufficient for the original tempo. Only reducing the tempo 10% results in a clearly audible loss of quality “gargle”.I feel, that for it to be a PRACTICE, the sample quality should be sufficient for 50% slower tempo, especially on faster pieces.A good example is Autumn Leaves: This is one of the key practice and study standards and it’s supplied here at a whooping 180 Bpm. It is rarely even played at that tempo and at a practice-learning tempo of 100 or even 85 the sound has lost all it’s allure, all “gargly” and wobbly. This needs to be fixed.Another suggestion is that the tempo control should not only be by + & - but either a drop-menu or a write box. A drop menu would also be nice on the Key-selection.Thanks!… J-D. Sauser
Great idea but needs some refinement
09/05/2025

J-D. Sauser (Pedal Steel C6th)

I LOVED the concept at once, I was sold in minutes. I don’t mind the price and buying more tunes either. What I think is a total miss is that most songs are sampled for their “original” tempo. For PRACTICE one will typically start working at a slower, often even MUCH slower tempo… but the sample rate (recording quality) is just about sufficient for the original tempo. Only reducing the tempo 10% results in a clearly audible loss of quality “gargle”.I feel, that for it to be a PRACTICE, the sample quality should be sufficient for 50% slower tempo, especially on faster pieces.A good example is Autumn Leaves: This is one of the key practice and study standards and it’s supplied here at a whooping 180 Bpm. It is rarely even played at that tempo and at a practice-learning tempo of 100 or even 85 the sound has lost all it’s allure, all “gargly” and wobbly. This needs to be fixed.Another suggestion is that the tempo control should not only be by + & - but either a drop-menu or a write box. A drop menu would also be nice on the Key-selection.Thanks!… J-D. Sauser
Excellent jazz play along
09/27/2025

FrancisChris
Great app with music played by real musicians. The advantage of this is huge. You get the high quality and real groove of a live performance, with all the variations in texture and rhythms, along with more sophisticated chords and riffs, plus song intros and a horn if you like. The band plays the actual bass patterns in songs like Footprints and All Blues - things you generally don’t get in synthetic apps like iReal Pro.Although you can modestly change speed and key signature, I find the range is limited by a degradation in sound quality that creeps in when you stray too far from the original. This is an inherent problem when you work from a single live recording and try to stretch the pitch and/or speed. A real band playing in a different key would also use a different set of voicings rather than simply play every note higher or lower. This is where iReal Pro with its synthesized sound has the advantage. But if you stay close to the original recording, Quartet is by far the best play-along app I’ve found.
Excellent jazz play along
09/27/2025

FrancisChris

Great app with music played by real musicians. The advantage of this is huge. You get the high quality and real groove of a live performance, with all the variations in texture and rhythms, along with more sophisticated chords and riffs, plus song intros and a horn if you like. The band plays the actual bass patterns in songs like Footprints and All Blues - things you generally don’t get in synthetic apps like iReal Pro.Although you can modestly change speed and key signature, I find the range is limited by a degradation in sound quality that creeps in when you stray too far from the original. This is an inherent problem when you work from a single live recording and try to stretch the pitch and/or speed. A real band playing in a different key would also use a different set of voicings rather than simply play every note higher or lower. This is where iReal Pro with its synthesized sound has the advantage. But if you stay close to the original recording, Quartet is by far the best play-along app I’ve found.
Worth it
08/31/2025

J in SC
Overall worth the price. The group sounds good and it’s a step over iReal as far as the feel goes. Some quirks: The tunes might use changes that may be unconventional to you. For example, Love For Sale is often played in minor. Here it is in major. Unlike iReal, no way to change that or any other progressions they have chosen. Another quirk- still in Love for Sale- they stay in a two feel the entire time except for the bridge. Not great for repeated choruses when practicing or teaching. When transposing far from the ‘home’ key, some audio artifacts are present in the tracks. I’d love a button that allows tracks to modulate up a half step on each repeat for practice. The notation for measures is unique, but seems more trouble than it is worth and could cause problems with developing students if they start relying on the look of it. I would prefer chord sheet.
Worth it
08/31/2025

J in SC

Overall worth the price. The group sounds good and it’s a step over iReal as far as the feel goes. Some quirks: The tunes might use changes that may be unconventional to you. For example, Love For Sale is often played in minor. Here it is in major. Unlike iReal, no way to change that or any other progressions they have chosen. Another quirk- still in Love for Sale- they stay in a two feel the entire time except for the bridge. Not great for repeated choruses when practicing or teaching. When transposing far from the ‘home’ key, some audio artifacts are present in the tracks. I’d love a button that allows tracks to modulate up a half step on each repeat for practice. The notation for measures is unique, but seems more trouble than it is worth and could cause problems with developing students if they start relying on the look of it. I would prefer chord sheet.