The husband-and-wife team made up of guitarist Al Pitrelli and pianist Jane Mangini spend part of the year performing with the multi-platinum Grammy Award-winning Trans-Siberian Orchestra, but during the TSO’s off-season, the couple hits the stage as O’2L. Blending jazz, rock, blues and electronic music, Pitrelli, an in-demand session player, and Mangini, a successful jingle writer, hope to expand beyond the traditional musical limits of TSO, creating their own self-styled fusion. Both Berklee alums, Pitrelli and Mangini had an unlikely hit with their remake of the Doors’ classic “Riders on the Storm” on their 2005 release Doyle’s Brunch.
This article appears in Mar 29 – Apr 4, 2007.