# SessionBand Jazz 1 — user reviews > 166 indexed App Store user reviews of SessionBand Jazz 1 by UK Music Apps Ltd, rated 4.40/5 from 69 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sessionband-jazz-1/id656630704/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sessionband-jazz-1/id656630704.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 46 · 4★ 15 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 5 ## What do users think of SessionBand Jazz 1? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎵 Realistic, high-quality instrument sounds - 🎸 Excellent for jazz practice and improvisation - 🎼 Easy to create custom backing tracks - 🎹 Great piano and drum voicings - 🔄 Flexible tempo and key transposition - 👍 User-friendly interface for most users - 🎯 Useful for both beginners and professionals - 💰 Good value for money - 🎭 Authentic musicianship from real players - 🔊 Superior sound quality compared to competitors **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and stability issues - ⚠️ Limited chord selection and extensions - 🎺 Repetitive and predictable saxophone phrases - 🔧 Unintuitive interface and navigation - 📱 Poor performance on older devices - ⏸️ Missing play/stop button in edit mode - 🎼 Tedious and fiddly chord editing - 🔌 Requires WiFi for downloading packages - 🎵 Choppy playback with rapid chord changes - ❌ Cannot export between different app versions **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes frequently, especially in edit mode - Stuttering and jerky playback on iPhone - Audio lag after tempo changes - Screen freezes and becomes unresponsive - Cannot access fill style options on iPhone (below page) - Chord data lost when switching styles - Compatibility issues with older iOS devices - Audiobus feature doesn't work - App stuck on single chord with no controls displayed - Erratic starting behavior and background mode issues - Performance degradation with many saved tracks **Most requested features** - Add missing chord types (m7, m6, 7, m11, maj7+, aug, dom9, dom7#11, dom7b5, slash chords) - Play/stop button in edit screen - Custom time signatures (especially 5/4) - MIDI export functionality - Import/export between app versions - Ability to loop sections for set number of times - Larger hit boxes for chord insertion - Guitar chord charts - More looper markings - Sustain button with stop functionality - Smoother tempo shifting - More tunes and song selections - Audiobus integration - GarageBand compatibility - Larger chord selection overall ## Newest reviews (15 of 166) ### 4/5 — Missing *2025-08-31* How is there no m7, m6, 7, in this? ### 3/5 — App not intuitive *2024-10-14* I’m confused. Can’t seem to move between prepping a chart and help menu: saxmax608 ### 4/5 — Excellent sound *2024-08-10* Excellent samples, good range of sounds and tunes. Making my own chord structures is a bit fiddly though. And I generally turn off the melody instruments after a while, and just focus using the comping and rhythm (playing bass). ### 4/5 — Fun practice *2024-07-28* Works ok on the iPhone but cannot access fill style as it is below the page. Would be fine on iPad. Otherwise makes practice much more fun. I use it for sax practice. Perfect for scales, chords and improvisation. Watch Lynden Blades on YouTube for ways to use it. ### 4/5 — Improvements *2024-07-23* Three requests for improvement 1.Add triad chord without tension 2. Bass sound is too low. 3. Make the click sound in 2 or 4 beats ### 5/5 — Super app *2021-04-29* Superbe application avec un son incroyable. Manquent la possibilité d’écrire des basses étrangères et un petit forum pour échanger les playbacks créés par les utilisateurs . J’adore ### 4/5 — Realistic sounding jazz backing trax *2020-12-27, version 2.5.3* I’ve been using Jazz Session Bands 1, 2, and 3 for a few years now—bought them in a bundle. First off, I can unreservedly recommend these apps for any jazz players who like to create their own backing tracks. Each version—one, two, and three—contains styles that are vital for jazz, so *you are going to need all three!* (Can’t wait to get 4!) The sampling is very good, the sound realistic and dynamic, particularly on 2 and 3. But this app definitely has weaknesses as well as strengths. I especially like SB’s piano and drums—but I almost always mute the horns when I play over SB backing trax; very quickly the horn licks get predictable. And you can’t play without bass, obviously, but sadly SB’s bass does not sound anything like a real jazz bass player. Some styles have no walking lines, no nifty little 8th note pickups. The piano, on the other hand, is sparkling and realistic. The drums are outstanding. You can really personalize a track just with the use of drum fills. SB 3, in particular, has a great array of drum fills. Now for my critique. To me, one of SB’s weaknesses is that when you create a backing track with rapid harmonic movement—for example 4 chords per bar, using dominant 7ths or ii Vs, the changes sound choppy. On the other hand, the app shines over chords that are prolonged for 2+ bars. Another weakness is that you can’t create a form in one version, for example, SB 1, and then copy and paste it into a new document from one of the other versions, like SB 2. That’s a drawback, because it is laborious to create forms using this app. If it turns out that a form sounds crummy in one version, it’d be cool if you could export it to another version. Another weakness is that not all the chord extensions and alterations are available in SB 1, 2, and 3. (I understand they are all possible in 4, which is why I plan to get it!) If you like to play over pieces with lots of colors and extensions in the melody, it’d great to have the backing chords that put those colors on top. For example, there’s no minor 11 available, no dom 9, no dominant 7(#11). I would also really like to see a dom 7(13,-9) voicing. You can get around this, of course, by using changes that are consonant with those colors, but I do feel the chord voicings on 1, 2, and 3 are limited. To summarize, you can create some really nice stuff that’s fun to play over, using Session Band Jazz 1, 2, and 3. Get all three in a bundle, if possible. You’re going to want and need them if your repertoire includes a wide variety of jazz styles. ### 5/5 — Excellents sons *2020-09-10* Beaucoup de standards de jazz avec un accompagnement excellent. ### 5/5 — Love it. *2020-09-08, version 2.5.3* I have all of the session band apps, as a songwriter I can always find tracks that fit the song I’m writing. Really wonderful apps. Very authentic, and natural, doesn’t sound like a computer, it sounds like real people playing. I highly recommend these apps if you’re a songwriter ### 3/5 — Jazzo *2020-07-10* Disappointed that it doesn’t interact like other apps controls are very basic but the music itself is fantastic 🤷🏽‍♂️ ### 5/5 — Fantastisch *2020-06-28* Bitte auch für Gypsy-Swing a la Django Reinhardt!!! ### 5/5 — Génial *2020-06-09* Simple et des sons de bonne qualité. Il manque quelques accords. Je n’ai pas trouver comment faire varier le tempo sur une piste: si çà n’existe vraiment pas ce serait bien de l’ajouter. Mais pour faire des maquettes en quelques minutes c’est parfait. ### 4/5 — Hello. *2020-05-30* Very nice apps. Dreaming about a kind of stop button with a sustain incorporated, and more looper markings. ### 4/5 — Bonne Application pour l’accompagnement Jazz *2020-05-16* Simple à mettre en oeuvre et beaux voicings. Tres bien. ### 4/5 — Don’t work properly after Update *2020-04-24* I use the 3 Jazz SessonBand apps every day for work. Excellent apps to exercise your improvisation techniques with a great sounding jazz trio. One thing missing is a user forum to be able to exchange song files that are otherwise quite long to enter mesure by mesure. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Too few titles *2026-03-19, version 2.9* Disappointing number of songs. Bought the Jazz 3 at 26.85$ and only got soundbites after hours of download time. ### 1/5 — Minor 9ths only! *2025-10-30* If you want a minor 7th chord only say as a III minor 7th chord, you’re stuck. So this negates most jazz standards. ### 1/5 — Poor edit page *2021-04-07* Good loops but the whole app is not well designed. No pause/play button in the edit screen. This basic feature has been requested for years but developers don’t listen. The app needs updates based on users’ feedback. ### 1/5 — Waste of Money. *2021-03-28* I bought the package months, if not years ago.....it is essil6 forgettable. I only used it a coupl3 of times, then it bored me half to death. Too much tedious, time-consuming fiddly effort, for very few results. It needed lots more development before being marketed. These are the standard of App that should be given free, to whet the appetite for a better, bigger, easier paid-for version.......which has yet to be developed it would seem. Save your money. Free apps are superior to these. ### 1/5 — Latest update causing issues! *2020-04-21* Since the latest update (installed 10th April 2020), changing the tempo results in such an audio lag that it has rendered the app almost unusable for me. Prior to this I used it on a daily basis as part of my regular practice schedule with much success for many years! If this could be investigated, I'd be very grateful as it's normally a very useful practice tool! ### 1/5 — It still doesn’t work! *2019-11-07, version 2.5.1* I have an iPad Pro version 2. The app’s screen is stuck on a c major 7 9 chord and will only play the same 2 measure loop over and over again.no control buttons are displayed. Just the time line and 1 chord. I have jazz and jazz 3 apps. I re-downloaded the app many times but same result. GREAT APP IDEA BUT RIGHT NOW ITS CRAP!1. Fix this or refund my money! I am a jazz and music theory teacher and Berklee graduate and I want to recommend this app to my students but I can’t because of it’s problems. Please contact me! ### 1/5 — Waste of money *2018-10-19* I have had all 3 jazz SessionBand apps for about a month and it’s all the same songs and the same names I do not recommend nd it ### 1/5 — I hate this app *2018-03-18* So different to use for composing, it is so awkward to try and click on the next bar. ### 1/5 — Very poor controls... *2017-10-09* Can we please.... please.... PLEASE.... have a PLAY/STOP button on the EDIT window!?! It is INCREDIBLY frustrating and hindering to workflow to keep having to switch backwards and forwards and then stop and start and back and forward again!! Makes a potentially very useful app... into frustrating amateur rubbish! ### 1/5 — Horrible App *2016-07-16, version 2.0* Horrible app. Crashes every time I use it. Can't shut the d@#n thing off! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-06-18* I’m so glad I found Jazz Sessions, It is so great and helpful. Amazing sound quality. I use it for live music It helps me to sound like a real trio. I’m so greatful, keep up the good work. Rbarak ### 5/5 — Magnificent! *2025-03-08* An amazing tool for musicians and teachers with superior instrument sounds compared to other play-along jazz apps. ### 5/5 — Fantastic software for practice sessions *2025-02-19* I use the SessionBand apps all the time for practice and for live gigs. The sound is fantastic and it’s very easy to work with the existing arrangements or create your own. I highly recommend it. ### 5/5 — Practice Time *2024-08-06* I can’t say I have used this extensively. However, for beginner piano practice it has been a great tool and helps track my progress. Really pleased with this app. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2024-04-13* Easy to create different backing tracks. ### 5/5 — Great for Practice! *2024-01-21* These apps (I only have the Jazz versions) are awesome for laying down some chords to practice over. Its simplicity makes it simple to set something up for jamming along. Or just one chord forever... ### 5/5 — Still great! *2023-07-03* I have so much fun practicing with these apps. I can make very useful templates to work out improvisational and technical skills. I highly recommend checking all of them out. ### 5/5 — Top *2023-03-10* J utilise régulièrement les différentes apps session band, je recommande. Points à améliorer : plus de possibilités d accords et des pdf éventuellement. ### 5/5 — Absolutely LOVE all of the Sessionband apps *2022-06-15* They make practicing almost more fun than the gig! Hope to see a lot more of them. ### 5/5 — Oups !! *2022-04-06* Alors mon premier commentaire était un peu dure. Avec un peu de curiosité cette apps est de bonne facture. J’ai acheté aussi Jazz300 et même si les standards essentiels ne sont pas tous là, le son est d’une excellente qualité. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-07.*