Italian guitar maestro Antonio Forcione originally came to England in pursuit of an errant sweetheart. He set up stall as a street entertainer, and inadvertently acquired a career as a top-flight international concert virtuoso.

There is something fitting about this story, given that Forcione's music still simmers with a sense of bohemian romance, laced with an "ain't life sweet" feel-good factor. In Lancaster, he and his quartet delivered an astonishingly accomplished set, taking in jazz, Spanish classical, African and Latin music, with an occasional nod towards the blues.

Forcione is quite capable of sounding like a one-man band, conjuring bubbling cascades behind his own melody lines and using the body of the guitar as an improvised drum. With the help of Igor Outkine's wistful accordion, Jenny Adejayan's stately cello lines and Adriano Pinto's subtle barrage of percussion, the tunes acquired a deeper lustre.

Unlike some accomplished technicians, Forcione is seldom gratuitously flashy in his explorations of various musical forms. A piece dedicated to the Buena Vista Social Club sounded uncannily authentic, while a suite inspired by Astor Piazzolla - one of the great Argentinian tango composers - combined aching soulfulness with a thrusting physicality. Forcione's own self-styled pieces seemed to be as closely linked to the rock canon as to jazz; glassy chordal work evoked Steve Hackett, passages of spidery dissonance Robert Fripp.

The most appealing aspects of Forcione's show are its rampant eclecticism and good humour. Right until the end he was pulling rabbits out of the hat, beginning the encore with a rush of Chuck Berry's Johnny Be Good and ending with a burst of Smoke on the Water - during which Outkine unexpectedly leapt from his chair and became the world's first head-banging accordionist. The audience stamped and cheered for more, but in all honesty, the band couldn't have followed that.

· At Windsor Arts Centre on Friday. Box office: 01753 859421.