Take your jazz standards play along to another level!
Your copy of Quartet will play on all devices: iPad, iPhone and ‘Apple silicon’ Mac (M1 on)
Quartet – the ‘live’ jazz standards play along app
Imagine practising and performing jazz standards with a truly world-class jazz quartet. A repertoire of over 500 of the most popular jazz standards recorded ‘live’ in a London recording studio just for you. With animated chord charts that follow every beat, and full screen animated chord diagrams if you want them.
Now imagine being able to select one of 8 mixes for each jazz standard that best suits your instrument…in real-time. With the facility to change key with just one touch. Speed up or slow down the audio with no loss of quality.
Imagine all of this (and more) in one feature-packed app for iOS.
For jazz instrumentalists and jazz vocalists of all levels, Quartet is the app you’ve been asking for… and it’s available right now!
App Review with Chase Sanborn
The Quartet apps reviewed by Chase Sanborn (YouTube channel)
App Review with Andy Bowen
The Quartet apps reviewed by Andy Bowen (Jazz guitar with Andy)
App Review with Jamie Holroyd
The Quartet apps reviewed by Jamie Holroyd (Jamie Holroyd Guitar)
- Emma Smith (No Moon at All)
- Freddie Benedict (One Note Samba)
- Janek Gwizdala (Moment’s Notice)
- Tom Ollendorff (Cotton Tail/Rhythm Changes)
- Gabriella Swallow (Smile)
- Phil Merriman (Everybody’s Song But My Own)
- Dave O’Higgins (It Could Happen To You)
- Mark Armstrong (Cherokee)
- Chris Standring (Stella By Starlight)
Quartet Vol.1
Quartet Vol.2
Quartet Vol.3
Quartet Vol.4
Save with Quartet Bundles
Our bundles allow you to buy several Quartet apps at the same time and make a big saving over buying the apps individually.
Apple also allow you to ‘Complete My Bundle’ – this means that if already own some of the apps in the bundle you want, the price you paid for those apps is taken off the bundle price.*
* You will need to be logged into the App Store with the same account (AppleID) that you used initially.
Quartet Bundle
Volumes 1-4
Quartet Bundle Volumes 1 & 2
Quartet Bundle Volumes 3 & 4
Watch the videos…
Quartet Volume 3 app video
Quartet Volume 4 app video
App Review with Dan Forshaw
Full screen animated chord charts and chord diagrams for every song
Live studio recordings from 9 of the world’s finest jazz musicians
Featured artists on the Quartet apps
Saxophones and Flutes
Graeme Blevins (Quartet 1 & 2)
Recording and performing credits include Phil Collins, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue, Kyle Eastwood, Mark Knopfler, Quincy Jones, Charlie Hunter, Mark Ronson, Tom Jones, Taylor Swift, Martha Reeves, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra…
Andy Panayi (Quartet 1, 2, 3 & 4)
Recording and performing credits include Shirley Bassey, Jessye Norman, Paul McCartney, Seth MacFarlane, Elaine Paige, Salena Jones, Elvis Costello, Georgie Fame, Peter Skellern, Zoot Money, Irene Reed, Elaine Delmar, Helen Shapiro, Madeline Bell, Patty Austin, Abdullah Ibrahim, Freddie Hubbard, Phil Woods, Wynton Marsalis, Joe Lovano, Roy Hargrove, Louie Bellson Octet & Big Band, Billy Cobham…
Dave O’Higgins (Quartet 1 & 2)
Recording and performing 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, Billy Childs, Jamie Cullum, Kyle Eastwood, Abdullah Ibrahim, Stephane Grappelli, Michel Legrand…
Piano
Graham Harvey (Quartet 1, 2, 3 & 4)
Recording and performing credits include Incognito (MD), Stacey Kent, George Benson, M People, Hamish Stuart, Will Lee, Lulu, 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 (Quartet 1, 2, 3 & 4)
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, Dianne Reeves, Claire Martin, Josh Kyle, San2, Eartha Kitt…
Drums
Sebastiaan de Krom (Quartet 1, 2, 3 & 4)
Recording and performing credits include Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Phil Woods, Dave Holland, Jamie Cullum, Guy Barker, Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry, Tim Garland’s Big Band, Barry Harris, Steve Watts, Hein van de Geyn…
Rod Youngs (Quartet 1 & 2)
Recording and performing credits include Gil Scott-Heron, Lee Konitz, Sia, Courtney Pine, Jon Hendricks, Hugh Masekela, Carleen Anderson, Craig Handy, Natalie Cole, Bennie Maupin, Mica Paris, Denys Baptiste, Abdullah Ibrahim, Juliet Roberts, Julian Joseph, BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronnie Laws, Jocelyn Brown, Robin Eubanks, Jazz Jamaica All Stars, David Murray…
Guitar
Nigel Price (Quartet 3 & 4)
Nigel has recorded with many big-name artists, performing on over 50 albums, most recently Van Morrison’s studio album ‘Keep Me Singing’. Currently, Nigel is recording and touring with the Nigel Price Organ Trio.
A former member of The James Taylor Quartet, Nigel was voted the UK’s ‘Best Guitarist’ in the 2016 British Jazz Awards and is “…probably the most dynamic and gifted guitarist on the British jazz scene today” [All About Jazz].
Trumpet
Steve Fishwick (Quartet 3 & 4)
Steve has performed and recorded with many leading European jazz musicians including Sir John Dankworth, George Mraz, Dado Moroni, Claus Raibler, Tony Lakatos and the WDR big band. In the USA, Steve has performed and recorded with Anita O’ Day, Ron Carter, Jimmy Heath, Dick Oattes, Peter Erskine, Tim Lefebvre, Eric Harland, Scott Hamilton, Grant Stewart, Ken Peplowski, Herb Geller, Lanny Morgan, Bruce Barth, Richie Cole…
Select which instruments you want to hear from the 8 alternative mixes for each song
Song configuration screen – mute your instrument to play along in the Quartet
Song Samples: Vol.1
Up swing
In the style of:
‘There Will Never Be Another You’
Key: Eb
BPM: 180
Time Signature: 4/4
Bossa nova
In the style of:
‘One Note Samba’
Key: Bb
BPM: 180
Time Signature: 4/4
Slow swing
In the style of:
‘Georgia On My Mind’
Key: F
BPM: 70
Time Signature: 4/4
Latin swing
In the style of:
‘Star Eyes’
Key: Eb
BPM: 160
Time Signature: 3/4
Song Samples: Vol.2
Latin
In the style of:
‘Sunny’
Key: Am
BPM: 130
Time Signature: 4/4
Fast swing
In the style of:
‘Seven Steps to Heaven’
Key: F
BPM: 250
Time Signature: 4/4
Jazz waltz
In the style of:
‘Footprints’
Key: Cm
BPM: 140
Time Signature: 3/4
Jazz ballad
In the style of:
‘Stardust’
Key: Db
BPM: 70
Time Signature: 4/4
Song Samples: Vol.3
Medium swing
In the style of:
‘Nobody Else But Me’
Key: C
BPM: 160
Time Signature: 4/4
Samba
In the style of:
‘So Danco Samba’
Key: F
BPM: 170
Time Signature: 4/4
Slow swing
In the style of:
‘Since I Fell for You’
Key: Bb
BPM: 70
Time Signature: 4/4
Waltz
In the style of:
‘Waltz for Ruth’
Key: Eb
BPM: 140
Time Signature: 3/4
Song Samples: Vol.4
Fast swing
In the style of:
‘I Get a Kick out of You’
Key: Ab
BPM: 200
Time Signature: 4/4
Samba
In the style of:
‘Água de Beber’
Key: Am
BPM: 145
Time Signature: 4/4
Medium Swing
In the style of:
‘Social Call’
Key: Bb
BPM: 130
Time Signature: 3/4
Ballad
In the style of:
‘Always and Forever’
Key: Gm
BPM: 60
Time Signature: 4/4
Key Features
Quartet 1 & 2 include 150 jazz standards, 3 & 4 have 100
Choose from 8 alternative mixes for each song
Real-time key adjustment (+/- 8 semitones)
Real-time adjustment of tempo in BPM increments (+/- 75%)
Set number of repeats of main section
Save the songs you like best to ‘Favourites’
Loop function loops any section of the song
Animated chord diagrams follow every beat
Transposition for Bb and Eb instruments
1 or 2-bar ‘count-in’ via metronome or silent animation
Create multiple playlists sync’ed across all your Quartet apps
Export songs either as stereo (m4a) or multitrack*
*Multitrack exporting requires an in-app purchase, read more…
“Paying homage to a variety of my favourite brazilian and jazz artists with this cover of the classic bossa nova jazz standard ‘One Note Samba’. Composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim, The English lyrics were written by jazz master; Jon Hendricks. Recorded by some of my faves, including João Gilberto and Stacey Kent.”
“Audio is provided from the incredible new play along app ‘Quartet 1’… (trust me, it’s amazing)”
Quartet Vol.1
Quartet Vol.2
Quartet Vol.3
Quartet Vol.4
Geoff Gascoyne chats to big-name (and upcoming) jazz soloists as they pick and play their favourite jazz standards and talk about their jazz lives.
A mix of candid discussion, technical insights and spontaneous improvisation, this weekly podcast is a must-listen for everyone that loves jazz.
App developed by Lion Tech
Lion Technology Solutions Ltd
www.lion-tech.io
