Quartet 5 (Christmas)2.3 - App Store

Practice and perform Christmas standards on another level with this special Christmas edition of Quartet - the top-selling live jazz standards play along app.

And with a host of brand new features, the Quartet apps just got even better. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases.

Volume 5 includes over 50 stunning Christmas standards recorded in various jazz styles exclusively by 5 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 Christmas 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 either 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 52 Christmas standards in Quartet Volume 5 include jazz improvisations in the style of... ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’, ‘Auld Lang Syne’, ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’, ‘The Christmas Waltz’, ‘Deck the Halls’, ‘Ding Dong! Merrily on High’, ‘Frosty the Snowman’, ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’, ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’, ‘A Holly Jolly Christmas’, ‘It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas’, ‘It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year’, ‘Jingle Bell Rock’, ‘Let It Snow! Let It Snow!’, ‘O Come, All Ye Faithful’, ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’, ‘Santa Baby’, ‘Silent Night’, ‘White Christmas’, ‘Winter Wonderland’...and 32 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 5 (Christmas)

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’. 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].

Saxophone

Harry Greene
Performing credits include Mica Paris, Olly Murs, Cory Wong, Incognito, PB Underground, Mo Pleasure (Michael Jackson, Earth Wind & Fire), Bernard ‘Pretty’ Purdie, Rumer, Myles Sanko, Ronnie Scott’s All Stars
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, 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

Version History 50 alternative versions of the most played standards added to Quartet 1 in the latest update. New styles. New keys. Update all of your Quartet apps to see the expanded library of 700 songs. 2.3 6d ago This update fixes an audio export issue affecting custom mixes under certain conditions. 2.2 Sep 16 Fix for audio pops and clicks affecting some iPhone 14 & 15 users. 2.1 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! 2.0 Aug 23 Various bug fixes including bar numbers for Dark Mode 1.1.0 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. 1.0.2 Apr 3 Bug fixes and correction to Winter Wonderland 1.0.1 11/23/2025 1.0 11/14/2025