Do It: Camara Kambon, ‘Gentleman’s Guide,’ Led Zepplica, military bands

FRIDAY

>> Medici’s hosts a night of jazz with Emmy-winning pianist

Camara Kambon, an Emmy-winning composer and pianist who now lives in Honolulu, drops by Medici’s for an evening of jazz.

The Baltimore native was a child prodigy, studying both drums and piano as a toddler and beginning to improvise by age 6.

By age 10, he was studying jazz, classical piano and composition at the Peabody Preparatory School, the prep school for theillustrious Peabody Conservatory.

He later studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and moved immediately into scoring and production for films and TV, winning the 1996 Emmy Award for scoring “Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion,” an HBO specialabout the fearsome boxer.

Kambon won praise for his music in films about Malcom X, Joe DiMaggio and the 1968 World Series-winning Detroit Tigers, and also composed Grammy Award-nominated tunes for Mary J. Blige and Eminem. More recently, he scored the documentary“John Lewis: Get in the Way,” a PBS documentary about the civil rights leader and congressman.

Bassist Bruce Hamada and drummer Darryl Pellegrini join Kambon, who has relocated here from Los Angeles. Keep an eye out for him at local jazz spots including Jazz Minds and Blue Note Hawaii.

FRIDAY-JUNE 10

>> Twists play out in “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder”

“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” was a smash hit during its 2014 debut season on Broadway, nominated for 10 Tony Awards and winning four, including best musical.

There’s nothing like a good murder-mystery-comedy, and this musical has some unusual twists and turns in plot and presentation.

The period piece tells the story of Monty (Zachary Linnert), who begins the show as a commoner but then discovers he is ninth in the line of succession to the aristocratic D’Ysquith family. He sets out to kill those in front of him.

The twist? The same actor, Garret Hols, plays all eight of the murder victims, each one getting his own dramatic death scene.

Critics praised the score, which has hints of Gilbert and Sullivan, Lerner and Loewe, Chopin and Stephen Sondheim.

“The melodies are bright and jaunty, the tempos mostly brisk,” wrote the New York Times in a 2012 review. “But the lyrics, with their wittywordplay, are what truly enchant.”

SATURDAY

>> Led Zepplica’s gonna make you groove

Led Zepplica takes over the Republik with the hot-rockin’ sound of Led Zeppelin.

Formed in 1989, about a decade after Led Zeppelin broke up, the band boasts that is not just a tribute band, but “a replica of the original.” The band is said to recreate a Led Zeppelin show from the mid 1970’s, with accurate sound, orchestration andstage antics, as well as a dynamic freshness.

Lead guitarist Lenny Mann has said the secret is that the band has studied Led Zeppelin and incorporated its sound and style to the point where his band can improvise and be spontaneous. The band prides itself on playing a unique show everytime.

Mann plays guitarist extraordinaire Jimmy Page. He is joined by Joe Retta as the screaming Robert Plant, Johnny Bruhns as bassist John Paul Jones and Darryl Johnson as power drummer John Henry Bonham.

The evening begins with a group from Cutting Edge, a company that specializes tribute bands, with a concert of the music of Journey.

SATURDAY

>> Military groups getting in tune to make music

The Marines have “The Halls of Montezuma.” The Air Force has “Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder.” The Navy, “Anchors Aweigh” and the Army, “The Army Goes Rolling Along.”

Military music has been a tradition since, well, maybe reveille started waking up troops. Here in Hawaii, the various military branches will be playing the same tune at their annual Joint Military Bands of the Pacific concert on Saturday.

Performers will come from the Army 25th Infantry Division Band, the Marine Corps Forces Pacific Band, the Navy U.S. Pacific Fleet Band and the Air Force Band of the Pacific. Locals will get in on the fun too, with members of the Hawaii Army National Guard Band joining in.

It could get crowded up there on stage — last year’s concert had more than 60 performers, with four conductors leading a jazz band and a concert band in patriotic songs and wing tunes. This year’s concert, which has the theme “Letters from Home,”promises even more variety, with service members forming ensembles of various sizes to perform country, rock, classical, jazz, ceremonial and patriotic tunes.

The concert is free, but reserving seats is advised.