Quartet 5 (Christmas)

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 ‘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 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, 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