Ron Affif
From his album
"Ringside"
"If I were a Bell"
Playing his Monarch Archtop with Signature Floating PAF Humbucker

At the age of 33, guitarist Ron Affif has gained a reputation for his personal approach to jazz, playing with a muscular realism as he looks for new expression in tunes from the Great American Songbook on his fifth Pablo release, Solotude.

It is his first completely solo recording, just Ron playing his archtop Buscarino electric guitar. On four songs he moves to a nylon-string, classical acoustic guitar. Just as he switches guitars to fit the tune, he includes a few of his own compositions among the standards, beginning with the lead-off track, "Mark," for his older brother, the first member of his family to pick up the guitar, and other tunes inspired by people close to him.