# Quartet 3 — Live jazz standards play along

> Live jazz standards play-along app with practice tools and multitrack export. (iPhone/iPad app by UK Music Apps Ltd.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/quartet-3/id6740534501 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [UK Music Apps Ltd](https://appshunter.io/developer/579320222)
- Category: Music, Education
- Price: $16.99 with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.40/5 from 11 App Store ratings · 20 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.6 · 503 MB
- Languages: American English, German (Germany), Japanese, European Spanish
- Released: 2025-03-14
- Data updated: 2026-09-13
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/quartet-3/id6740534501/reviews.md

## What is Quartet 3?

Practice and perform jazz standards on another level with Quartet.

And with a host of brand-new features, the top-selling jazz play along apps just got even better. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. 

Volume 3 includes another 100 stunning jazz standards recorded exclusively by 6 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 ‘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 (650 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 100 jazz standards in Quartet Volume 3 include improvisations in the style of… ‘After You’ve Gone’, ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’, ‘At Last’, ‘Baubles, Bangles & Beads’, ‘Blueberry Hill’, ‘Blues’ (in all keys), ‘Breezin’’, ‘Chameleon’, ‘Down by the Riverside’, ‘Freedom Jazz Dance’, ‘How Long Has This Been Going On?’, ‘Ladies in Mercedes’, ‘On the Street Where You Live’, ‘Second Time Around’, ‘Someone To Watch Over Me’, ‘Summer Knows’, ‘Só Danço Samba’, ‘Too Marvelous for Words’, ‘Who Can I Turn To?’, ‘With a Song in My Heart’… and 80 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 more at www.quartetapp.com
 
 
Featured artists on Quartet Volume 3

Guitar
Nigel Price

Nigel has recorded with many big-name artists, performing on over 50 albums, most recently Van Morrison’s studio album ‘Keep Me Singing’.

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

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, Peter Erskine, Eric Harland, Scott Hamilton, Herb Geller

Saxophones and Flutes
Andy Panayi 

Credits include Shirley Bassey, Jessye Norman, Paul McCartney, Seth MacFarlane, Elaine Paige, Elvis Costello, Georgie Fame, Helen Shapiro, Madeline Bell, Patty Austin, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Billy Cobham

Piano
Graham Harvey 

Credits include Incognito (MD), Stacey Kent, George Benson, M People, Hamish Stuart, The Jones Girls, Philip Bailey, Chaka Khan, The BBC Big Band, Madeline Bell, Jocelyn Brown, Mica Paris, Sir Cliff Richard

Bass
Geoff Gascoyne

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, John Martyn, Eartha Kitt

Drums
Sebastiaan de Krom

Credits include Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Phil Woods, Dave Holland, Jamie Cullum, Guy Barker, Wynton Marsalis

## Key features

- Live jazz standards play-along
- Mute your instrument
- Change key and tempo
- Loop sections for practice
- Animated chord diagrams
- Multi-app playlist creation
- Multitrack export

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: $16.99.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Upgrade all songs | $39.99 | one-time |
| Upgrade song | $0.99 | one-time |
| Buy 50 tokens | $22.99 | one-time |
| Buy 10 tokens | $8.99 | one-time |
| Buy 20 tokens | $14.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Quartet 3?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Superb tool for drum teachers
- 👍 Huge selection of styles and tempos
- 👍 Ability to mute drums for playing along
- 👍 High-quality audio recordings
- 👍 Intuitive and easy to use interface
- 👍 Beautifully designed cover artwork
- 👍 Ability to change key and tempo
- 👍 Fantastic for practicing and improving improvisation
- 👍 Excellent for all musicians, from beginners to professionals
- 👍 Impeccable production quality
- 👍 Broad selection of jazz standards
- 👍 Wonderful rhythm section with great swing feel
- 👍 Enormous repertoire of great jazz tunes
- 👍 Allows creating custom playlists and set lists

## Recent user reviews (10 of 20)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/quartet-3/id6740534501/reviews.md

### 2/5 — Screwup

*2026-08-30*

Paul , you screwed this up totally. It was much better than all the other apps.
The new format stinks . Why do people always think they have to make something better. It was great before.So much more difficult to read the chord charts now.
What a shame.
Maybe someone else will fix your,
Oh never mind. Y’all just jumped the shark!

### 5/5 — great update

*2026-08-24*

great update. Many thx for that. Good job and excellent musicians playing.

### 5/5 — Best in class

*2026-08-23*

Great series of apps, affordable no subscription, and real perfomances, albeit straightahead, so perfect for learning standards, but also viable backing tracks

### 2/5 — Keys?

*2025-11-18*

What am I missing? Why does it seem the keys chosen for 3 and 4 are not the common keys used in fake books? They are so far away that when I adjust the key, the track is distorted. You really can only adjust so far up or down before the track sounds crazy. A real disappointment. 1 and 2 are stellar!

### 4/5 — Yeah me likes but…

*2025-10-11*

As I say in the title, this is a very nice sounding app. The recordings are very nice, but it could use some improvement so here’s my wish list:
1. Add a tap tempo button.
2. It would be nice to be able to make your own charts and have the band follow in different styles.
3. Not all recordings are super nice. Most of them are, but for example, Fly me to the Moon the drums are horrible.
4. There is no mixer to play with the levels of the instruments. It would be nice to have a mixer.
5. You can only export the file to M4A format it would be nice if you could export to WAV file and MP3 which are more commonly used.
6. It would also be nice if you could export the chord chart as a normal chart or have a choice to view the chords in different ways normal chart or the default way.
7. You have a choice of having the Quartet playing, having Bass and Piano or bass and Drums, but there is no way to just have Drumms only Adding a mixer with alleviate this.
8. The endings have no turn around like a lot of standards do so they end abruptly and well… it be nice if we had the choice.
9. There is no intuitive way to play your personal playlists, you have to click the Edit graphic to be able to see the list you created also as you make your list it’s displayed backwards the first file you add will show up last and the last file you make will show up first. There is a way to rearrange the list but that’s an extra unnecessary step.
10. A lot of the swing files are really fast though they sound nice that speed may not be what the audience is familiar with for example A Foggy Day is recorded at 200 bpm when the most famous recording is around 150 bpm that’s a lot of difference maybe they should have two versions of the song the one they want and the bpm tempo of the one that’s the most famous recording. Like they have two versions of Autumn Leaves.

As for bouncing:
You can bounce to stems for an extra fee or 99¢ per song, it should really be for free I mean the bundle is almost $40 and each separate is $15 a lot of music apps allow stems for free. 
All in all I really like it and I recommend it but hopefully they will be developing and adding these much needed features for free.

### 5/5 — Marc Cecil

*2025-03-23*

As a drum teacher this is a superb tool, a huge selection of styles and tempos to work through and all recorded to click. 

The facility to mute the drums allows student to play along as the drummer but also listen to the original groove for inspiration.

This is such a musical step up from just working with a click, essential for all drummers👍

### 5/5 — Another great product

*2025-03-22*

A while back I purchased Quartet 1&2. I was just blown away by the ease of use and the quality of sound. I recently purchased Quartet 3&4. It’s the same great app with more well chosen tunes. I’m a professional woodwind player and for the past 4 years or so have been doing a lot more solo jobs with tracks. These apps are a must and a game changer. 1-4 gives you hours of great accompaniment. They use top notch musicians and quality recording. I can’t recommend them enough.

### 5/5 — More brilliance from Quartet!

*2025-03-21*

The Quartet app is a game changer! High quality audio recordings (no midi!) from some of the finest jazz musicians in the world, now offering a repertoire list of 500 classic jazz tunes all of which are searchable across all 4 of the apps. A very easy to use interface with beautifully designed cover artwork. 8 mixes for every track, in all 12 keys with variable tempos and charts that transpose for Bb and Eb instruments. The ability to export the wav files with a simple upgrade is also very useful for creating custom tracks in your own DAW. All in all, a brilliant resource for jazz musicians at any level, on any instrument.

### 5/5 — The best playalong out there!

*2025-03-16*

They really set a new standard (forgive the pun) with this amazing range of jazz play along apps. Being able to change key and tempo is utterly invaluable, but what really stands out is that it just sounds so damn good! It makes me want to pick up my instrument and play. Congratulations to the team!

### 5/5 — Stunning app!!!!!

*2025-03-15*

Great app!!!! Really easy to use, stunning presentation and a fantastic sequel to Quartet 1 & 2. Great playing on the tracks and fantastic sound quality. Really recommended for people who want to learn more about the art of jazz and improvising.

## Frequently asked questions about Quartet 3

### What is Quartet 3?

Quartet 3 is a music application designed for practicing and performing jazz standards. It provides live studio recordings of jazz standards, allowing musicians to play along by muting their own instrument. The app offers features like on-the-fly key changes, tempo adjustments, and looping capabilities for focused practice.

### What are the key features of Quartet 3?

Key features include live jazz standard recordings by professional musicians, the ability to mute your instrument to play along, on-the-fly key and tempo changes, section looping for practice, animated chord diagrams for piano, guitar, and ukulele, and the creation of multi-app playlists. It also offers free multitrack export for further remixing.

### How much does Quartet 3 cost?

The application itself is free to download and install on iOS devices and Mac. However, content such as volumes of jazz standards are offered as in-app purchases. Specific pricing for each volume or bundle would be available within the app's store.

### What instruments can I practice with Quartet 3?

Quartet 3 is suitable for a wide range of jazz instruments, including piano, guitar, saxophone, trumpet, bass, and drums. Singers can also use the app for practice and performance. Animated chord diagrams are provided for piano, guitar, and ukulele.

### Can I use Quartet 3 for live gigs?

Yes, the backing tracks provided by Quartet are described as powerful enough to gig with. The ability to change keys, adjust tempo, and create automated playlists makes it a versatile tool for live performances. Additionally, the royalty-free nature of the exported content allows for further creative development.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.1 — 2026-09-03

Fix for audio pops and clicks affecting some iPhone 14 & 15 users.

### 2.0 — 2026-08-23

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!

### 1.3.0 — 2026-04-09

Various bug fixes including bar numbers for Dark Mode

### 1.2.2 — 2026-04-03

- 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.

### 1.2.1 — 2025-11-24

Bug fixes

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