Quartet 13.3 - App Store

Practice and perform jazz standards on another level with Quartet.

And with a host of brand-new features plus an additional 50 new versions of the most played standards, the top-selling jazz play along apps just got even better. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. Yours to keep!

Volume 1 now includes 200 stunning jazz standards recorded exclusively by 8 of the world’s best jazz musicians. All ‘live’ studio recordings with intros, endings and top line solos. 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. Loop sections and slow them right down for practice.

Select the number of repeats. Choose from preset mixes or create your own custom mix using the new onboard mixer. Arrange each song exactly the way you want it with the new automated ‘Arranger’ feature. Add a touch of reverb and you’re good to go.

Improve your skills with full screen animated chord diagrams for Piano, Guitar and Ukulele.

Search the entire Quartet song library (700 songs) by composer, style, BPM, associated artist and more.

Build and share multi-app playlists and easily export PDF chord charts for every song.

Export your stereo mix or export the multitrack if you want to develop the high quality separated parts in GarageBand or whatever DAW you use. Either way, all recordings are offered to you royalty-free giving you endless creative possibilities.

The 200 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’, ‘Fever’, ‘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’, ‘Summertime’...and 180 more!

Install Quartet on all of your iOS devices plus your Mac devices (M series only) at no extra cost.

Ready to take your jazz standards to another level?

Hear lots more and see the full song lists at www.quartetapp.com

Featured artists

Saxophones and Flutes

Andy Panayi
Credits - Shirley Bassey, Paul McCartney, Seth MacFarlane, Elaine Paige, Salena Jones, Elvis Costello, Georgie Fame, Helen Shapiro, Madeline Bell, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Joe Lovano, Roy Hargrove

Dave O’Higgins
Credits - Joey Calderazzo, Joe Locke, Eric Alexander, Max Ionata, Joe Lovano, Phil Woods, Nancy Wilson, Peggy Lee, Kurt Elling, Wayne Shorter, Eddie Gomez, Jamie Cullum, Stéphane Grappelli, Michel Legrand

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
Guitar

Nigel Price
Credits - James Taylor Quartet, Van Morrison, Nigel Price Organ Trio. Voted ‘Best Guitarist’ in the 2016 British Jazz Awards
Piano

Graham Harvey
Credits - Incognito (MD), Stacey Kent, George Benson, Hamish Stuart, Will Lee, Philip Bailey, Chaka Khan, The BBC Big Band, Madeline Bell, Jocelyn Brown, Mica Paris, Sir Cliff Richard

Bass

Geoff Gascoyne
Credits - Jamie Cullum (MD), Sting, Van Morrison, Bill Bruford, Mari Wilson, Paloma Faith, Georgie Fame, Gloria Estefan, Guy Barker, Charlie Watts, Benny Golson, Jacqui Dankworth, Bob Dorough, John Martyn, Eartha Kitt

Drums

Sebastiaan de Krom
Credits - Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Phil Woods, Dave Holland, Jamie Cullum, Guy Barker, Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry, Tim Garland

Rod Youngs
Credits - Gil Scott-Heron, Lee Konitz, Sia, Courtney Pine, Jon Hendricks, Hugh Masekela, Natalie Cole, Mica Paris, Juliet Roberts, BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronnie Laws, Jocelyn Brown

Version History 50 alternative versions of the most played standards added to Quartet 1 in this free update. New styles. New keys. 3.3 3d ago This update fixes an audio export issue affecting custom mixes under certain conditions. 3.2 Sep 16 Fix for audio pops and clicks affecting some iPhone 14 & 15 users. 3.1 Sep 3 Major rebuild with a number of significant new features including:

1. Brand new chord screen layout with whole song per screen
2. Additional portrait orientation
3. Mixer with independent reverbs on each channel
4. Option to play ‘preset’ or create ‘custom’ mixes for every song
5. PDF printable chord charts for every song
6. Automated ‘Arranger’ feature enabling different mixer channel settings for each song repeat
7. Continuous metronome option
8. Re-route of drums channel in ‘custom’ mix means drums are unaffected by key change
9. Range of shortcuts added for Mac users
10. Improved accessibility across all screen views

Don’t forget to back up important Playlists before installing new updates! 3.0 Aug 23 Various bug fixes including bar numbers for Dark Mode 2.3.0 Apr 9 - Users can now export the multitrack version of each song (native pitch and tempo only) at no extra cost. This was previously an in-app purchase.
- New hi-hat count-in option. Available via Global Settings and also individual songs.
- Minor re-working of the home page song layout.
- Permanent fix for users who have 'Display Zoom' enabled on their device.
- Various bug fixes. 2.2.2 Apr 3 Bug fixes 2.2.1 11/24/2025 Important update

1. Significantly improved ‘handover’ between different editions of Quartet results in a much smoother workflow
2. Improved layout of song title and important song data
3. New tempo slider feature allows for much quicker real-time tempo changes to songs
4. Reworked logic for playlists makes it easier to view and manually play songs from playlists
5. New output volume feature in Global Settings allows output volume to be regulated if using Quartet with other apps
6. New extended ‘Add to existing playlist’ feature means users can run a secondary song search to add multiple songs to existing playlists more efficiently.
7. Compatibility fixes for ‘Dark Mode’ and ‘Button Shapes’ device settings
8. Various bug fixes 2.2 11/14/2025 Important update

1. Global settings for count-in and B flat/E flat transposition means you can add a count-in and transpose chord charts for EVERY song in the Quartet library in seconds
2. New ‘add to playlist’ feature means you can easily add the song you are playing to a new or existing playlist
3. Reworked Quartet ‘favourites’ feature gives you a much clearer view or your favourite tracks in the Quartet song library and allows you to easily build a playlist of your ‘favourites’
4. Fix for the recent tempo change bug means user-specified tempos are back to how they should be
5. Fix for the playlist syncing issue which affected a small number of 'Apple silicon' Mac users
6. New ‘Join’ feature gives you direct access to join the new ‘Quartet Rewards’ programme (free of charge) to keep right up-to-date with Quartet updates and new launches while also being in with a chance of winning some exciting jazz freebies! 2.1 08/27/2025 Fix for AirPlay 1 and improvements in Bluetooth latency. 2.0.1 04/17/2025 Major update v2.0

With the release of Quartet 3 and 4, a new ‘Playlists+’ feature allows you to create and sync multi-app playlists across all 4 app volumes:

• You can now import and export your own playlists and share with others
• New ‘Song Library’ allows you to view and listen to all 500 jazz standards in the Quartet song library across all 4 app volumes
• A number of minor bug fixes 2.0 03/13/2025 Major update with fixes and additional features:

- Fixes pops and clicks in the audio heard on certain devices when the song repeats.
- Chord sheet view has been completely re-written to become a single continuous score.
- New 'Repeat Counter' shows users which repeat section is currently playing.
- The free m4a export option now allows you to export the full-length audio with the number of repeats specified.
- Exported audio now includes the 1 or 2-bar metronome count-in if selected. 1.1 11/21/2023 1.0 09/23/2022